This is only true for American Crows. As everyone knows, Northwestern Crows
go "cawp, cawp, cawp" which causes the motorists to slow down and drive responsibly
for the next half mile or so...


> >
Pterodroma at aol.com wrote:
> Crows, crows, crows. It's time to lighten things up by reviving an old joke
> that shot through cyberspace a few years ago and probably older than that :-).
>
> When driving on the road, one often sees crows feeding on dead things or
> discarded food in the roadway. But have you ever wondered like me how they
> always seem to get out of the way of your speeding car just in the nick of
> time. You never (almost never anyway) see dead crows on the road. The reason
> is that crows always travel in pairs or small groups and there is always one
> sitting sight unseen on a nearby branch as a lookout. When your speeding car
> comes along, he yells, caw caw caw.
>
> Richard Rowlett (Pterodroma at aol.com)
> 47.56N, 122.13W
> (Seattle/Bellevue, WA, USA)

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