I had the great fortune to spend a few years with an adult Raven. The sound
that bird made were amazing. We would talk for minutes at a time. And there
were words like "mealworm" that it recognized and got quite excited about.

I recently heard a crow murmur. It was a very strange sound that at first I
did not believe that it came from a crow. It was standing on a building and
as it made this sound it would hunch its shoulders together, bow its head
down, and bob its body up and down.

I find that the time I spend with crows and ravens is always educational.
For me. I'm not sure about them.

Jim

At 02:48 PM 6/7/99 -0700, John Shelton - ext. 4051 wrote:
>
>I am one of the lucky people who had the good fortune of raising a crow from
>a totally helpless patially fledged nestling to free flying adulthood.
>
>My crow spent endless hours making what we referred to as "jungle sounds".
> His huge sound repertoir ranged from soft murmurs, peeps and whistles to
>ear splitting castanets although most of the sounds were too soft to be
>heard from any distance.
>
>John Shelton
>Portland, Oregon
>
Jim Rosso
Issaquah, Washington
425-392-8440
jrosso at mediaseek.com