Corvid Resources

I was listening to a fascinating story on CBCs IDEAS program.They were speaking with a researcher who found that the ravens passed on learned behaviour: harassing the researchers who had previously banded generations of birds years ago.

This led to my photos and post...

Hacker and writer Joshua Klein talks about the intelligence of crows and his invention of the crow vending machine. A bit bizarre, one wonders....
whether he is a white-hat or black-hat hacker...I reserve the right to doubt!

Books

In The Company of Crows and Ravens. John M. Marzluff and Tony Angell. Yale University Press, 2005.

• Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from The Urban Wilderness. Lyanda Lynn Haupt. Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
  Crow. Boria Sax. Reaktion Books, 2003.
• Crow: Encounters With The Wise Guys of the Avian World. Candace Savage. Greystone Books, 2005.
• Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens Magpies and Jays. Candace
• Savage. Greystone Books, 1995.
• Ravens, Crows, Magpies, and Jays. Tony Angell. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1978.
• Mind of the Raven: Investigatoins and Adventures with the Wolf-Bird. Bernd Heinrich. Cliff Street Books, 1999.
• Ravenson: A Naturral and Fabulous History of Ravens and Crows. Catherine Feher-Elston. Northland Publishing, 1991

Other...

Kevin McGowan is a behavioral ecologist who studies birds, especially the social behavior of crows in Ithaca, New York.

The story of the pitcher and the crow. More fact than fiction.

Oxford Team Discovers Crows Can Use Complex Sequences Of Tools To Reach A Reward

Wild crows in Japan have a refined technique for cracking nuts.(Dropping them in traffic!)

A Murder of Crows

Watch this film online.   45:12 min