Hi Tweets

Eric Kraig writes:

> North of the border, they're nearly all
>counted as Northwesterns along the coast, with the presence of
>Americans being noteworthy.

Big crows with high-pitched yelping caws show up as rare single birds in the
winter in Vancouver BC. Most of the time when this happens (and I've been in
on three instances), smaller crows with lower-pitched grating caws are
somewhere close by for size and call comparison. Each time, the quality of
each's caw note has been distinctively and consistently different: the big
one has a mellow, higher-pitched yelp, the smaller ones around it harshly
growling, lower-pitched 'kaah' notes. I've been calling the big ones
American Crows, the small ones Northwestern Crows.

I'm quite willing to watch the debate go on as it has for years with all the
pleasure of an old pooch settling back down to a good bone that he's been
working on for a good long time already, but is it not possible to do some
DNA work on this complex and lay this one to rest for aye?

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Vancouver BC Canada -Goya
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