Denny and Tweeties,

Just last week I spied a crow with unusual coloration....My crow had a
dark, coppery reddish brown cast to it.
Not quite as pretty as what you described. I have read *somewhere* that
crows will sometimes show colors other than black.

Lydia In Kent
lgaebe at msn.com
Lydia Gaebe

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From: <osprey at nwinfo.net>
To: <TWEETERS at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 5:34 PM
Subject: Fashion-designer Crow


> Yesterday afternoon I spotted the most unusual and beautiful American Crow
> you can imagine. Its head, nape and breast were a brownish-mauve and the
> rest of the bird was a creamish-mauve. The bill and legs were black. I
> have seen crows with varying degrees of albinism but never one with
> coloration so far removed from black and/or white. It really looked like
a
> cross between a crow and a fashion designer.
>
> Denny
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