Hi Tweets,

Nick Pharris writes:

>the crows are
>native and an integral part of our natural ecosystem.

and adaptable to others, if necessary or if offering more food and shelter
possibilities for less work. Sounds like humans.

Incidentally, has anyone ever done any studies of the value of crows' nests
to other medium-sized cup nesting species, and what their populations might
be if crows' nests were unavailable? Seems to me, every mid-sized
tree-nester--owls, hawks etc.--but the family pooch uses them at some time
or another.

>It is also important to remember that some of the crows out there are (at
>least partly) Corvus caurinus, a species that lives only here in the
>Northwest and *nowhere else in the world*; and that is something special.

Gee--he said, ingenuously--not to fan the embers of a presently-quiescent
debate, but do you mean the American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos, clined to
the West Coast Half-pint Variant, the coastal-strip runt we call 'caurinus'? '-)

Michael Price
Vancouver BC Canada
mprice at mindlink.net1