kavohh707:

Another crow in the snow. This is not one of my neighborhood crows, but one of the couples a bit further away. And even when I only visit every other week or so, they still recognize me every time.

doomedyuri:

DARK SOULS REMASTERED GIFS ➼ [1/?]

godzillabreath:

crow commission for eri!

mickyswildlifeexploring:

Flying against the storm

the-crow-in-the-blooming-tree:

vintagewildlife:

North American raven
By: Stephen J. Krasemann
From: Natural History Magazine
1989

do-you-have-a-flag:

cali-brum:

elodieunderglass:

elodieunderglass:

fierceawakening:

animefacialrecognitionsoftware:

teasugarsalt:

The blue eyes mark this crow as young, not a full adult.

You’ve been pranked by a teen hooligan.

You’ve been pranked by,

You’ve been sticked by,

A teen hooligan

that is a delightful hooligan I hope you are now friends

This looks like a grownup jackdaw, who are known to nest in chimneys. Not a teen or a crow - and I have a comparison picture. Here is me GRISPIN’ a preteen jackdaw in a very similar GRISP . You can see it does have quite blue eyes, more blue than the OP. This is the face of someone outraged.

I saved his life and he was not grateful.

Got two questions about beak colour -

Here are some baby crows at the fledgling stage. they are often typified by having blue-ish eyes and pinkish “lips”, like baby crows, which have pinkish beaks. They are pretty uniformly coloured.

Grownup Carrion Crow is a big bird, and solid iridescent black. Black eyes, black beak, black body.

Baby EurasianJackdaw starts off with a yellow beak and will grow up to have a black beak, and in the transitional stages, the beak is sort of greyish.

In addition to knowing that the baby Jackdaw in my picture is a Jackdaw, it was part of a distressed flock of adult jackdaws, which are not in the photo; and even without knowing the size of my hand, it is detectably smaller and lighter in build than a Carrion Crow, with a shorter beak.

Adult Eurasian Jackdaw is a smallish, jaunty, expressive bird that has a distinctive white eye, black mask, and grey nape. The upper and lower body read as matte black, but the grey nape instantly sets it apart.

A jackdaw can easily be grasped in your hands. A crow is larger and would be harder to contain so neatly.

The bird in the OP is definitely an adult jackdaw. You can see the matte black feathers at the top of the head and the matte grey feathers of the nape against the person’s fingers. The white eye, giving the same expression of outrage. The size in a person’s hands.

(Crow / rook / jackdaw)

Behaviour also provides a context for the bird in your hand. Jackdaws are famed for nesting in chimneys. They are social birds that really like buildings, roofs, and especially chimney pots. Their similarity to crows but fondness for human architecture is even in a William Cowper poem:

There is a bird who, by his coat
And by the hoarseness of his note,
Might be supposed a crow;
A great frequenter of the church,
Where, bishop-like, he finds a perch,
And dormitory too.

Dropping sticks down a chimney indicates their efforts to build a nest in your chimney, which is something jackdaws are extremely well-known for. They’re always standing on chimneys.

Crows, meanwhile, are more likely to choose the top of a tree, if they can get one (and crows can get most things they like!) for good visibility. In the 1800s, the viewing platform at the top of a sailing mast was called a crow’s nest because of this habit - being at the top of a tree. That’s not to say that crows won’t play with your chimney, but of the expected behaviours of both birds, it makes sense for a jackdaw to be interested.

and dropping sticks down a chimney for “weeks” is not the expected behaviour of a baby or teenaged wild bird, even a clever one, like a crow. “Weeks” would take it from fledging to adulthood, at which point you would be holding an adult crow; and dropping sticks for no reason for weeks isn’t very consistent with the behaviour patterns of fledgling baby crows, who do play with things, but have other things to occupy their time. It’s very consistent with believable behaviour for an adult jackdaw practicing nesting activity, who is building/repairing/using a nest at the top of a chimney and dropping the sticks incidentally. Adults are the ones who build nests. this is an extremely believable adult jackdaw story and a less believable baby crow story.

it doesn’t matter and will make no difference. the point is how the picture looks like my own picture of a baby jackdaw and I think that is GREAT

kateammann:

Corvids!! :D