Crow Meat Comes Back -- Boosts Sexual Potency?

Eating crow is an expression used by English speakers as an idiom for being humiliated.  Despite the nursery rhyme about four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, neither crows or blackbirds rate high on the...

Crows are brainier than your average apes

To start off with, I hate crows. They sound annoying, and they are too smart for their own good. I remember seeing some crows pick up rocks and then dropping it at someone's house over and over again. My theory is...

Greater Vancouver Zoo, Lion Eats Eagle in front of visitors.

Certainly a sad day, and horrific experience for onlookers and especially children who  witnessed  a trained Golden eagle performing, only to be harrassed by crows and into the waiting mouth of a...

Hitchcock- type Birds halt trains & Cut Power in India

" PATNA, India (Reuters) - Train services were disrupted in parts of eastern India for three hours after flocks of agitated crows snapped overhead power lines when railway workers tried to...

Bird flu spreads to urban Bangladesh: Widespread Across the Nation

Viral/Pandemic Warning"DHAKA, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Bird flu has spread to the Bangladesh capital Dhaka and to the port city Chittagong despite efforts by authorities to contain it, livestock officials said on...

Cleverest crows opt for two tools

"The crows used two tools to get to their treats New Caledonian crow (University of Auckland) Crows have shown that two tools are better than one when it comes to problem solving, scientists say. A University of Auckland study has revealed that New Caledonian crows can use...

Crows are as intelligent as apes

The researchers devised some very difficult tasks for the crows. It's remarkable that these creatures found  and executed the right sequence of steps to solve the problems facing them.  This is the...

“That's the toilet bowl, not the bath tub you fool.”

"15th March 2007 :: “That's the toilet bowl, not the bath tub you fool.” When I was a child, these used to be the most commonly seen bird around but now their number has gone down quite a bit. While you do see a lot of crows and pigeons, That's the toilet bowl, not the...

A Murder Of Crows

Take a walk through Still Creek, an industrial park in Burnaby, BC. Every night, thousands of crows roost on the buildings, on the powerlines, in the trees. It's a scene straight of out Hitchcock's The Birds.

Rain of Dead Birds

"THOUSANDS of birds have fallen from the skies over Esperance and no one knows why. Is it an illness, toxins or a natural phenomenon? A string of autopsies in Perth have shed no light on the mystery. All the residents of flood-devastated Esperance know is that their "dawn...

Crow believed to be oldest in world dies - Yahoo! News

There's no way to prove Tata was the world's oldest crow when he died Sunday at age 59. But an expert on crows says it's possible.

Weird News: World Cup fever now includes crows

"Soccer is for birds here — more specifically the crows. A flock of the birds dressed in soccer jerseys showed off their dribbling and shooting skills at a Japanese zoo as football fever gripped the nation. The four young carrion crows at Tokuyama Zoo in western Japan...

Let's Talk About this Fascination with Crows

Let's talk about this fascination in the Vancouver art world with crows.I know that there is this thing in Vancouver where a huge flock of crows migrate each night and land somewhere in Burnaby, where they spend...

US Soldiers Use Video Game Skills to Master Remote Guns (CROWS)

Think you're good at doom? Uncle Sam might try and recruit you! @ $260K a pop these bad boys mount on the top of a Hummer (or other vehicle) and are controlled from inside the vehicle, operated with cameras and a...

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