Subject: Re: crows' roost
Date: Aug 22 11:48:13 1994
From: Dennis Paulson - dpaulson at ups.edu


>Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 10:59:08 -0700
>From: mip-arch at garnet.berkeley.edu (Museum Informatics Project)
>To: dpaulson at ups.edu
>Subject: Re: crows' roost
>
>>Date: Mon, 22 Aug 94 09:50:17 -0700
>>From: dpaulson at ups.edu (Dennis Paulson)
>>To: Multiple recipients of list <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
>>Subject: Re: crows' roost
>
>>If everyone who can will send in a message describing evening crow flights
>>over their house--direction and volume would do it, I guess--to tweeters, I
>>Dennis Paulson
>
>Dennis,
>You'd want their addresses (i.e., where they observed the events) also.
>
>And, for a little bit more money, you could ask them for the date/hour/number
>of birds. That might provide some opportunity to detect movement rate, rather
>than just direction (I know, that's stretching it, both from the (in)ability
>to determine which birds (flocks) are which, and from an expectation that there
>will be enough observations reported for you to detect a pattern; someday,
>when everyone at home has a connection to the internet.... ;>)
>Cheers,
>Peter
>

Thanks to Peter Rauch, posting all the way from Berkeley, where crows have
not yet taken over the city.

Dennis Paulson