My wife and I had wondered about crows with white on their wings before too. I work at Woodland Park Zoo, and we both volunteer here. Every afternoon there are a couple of hundred crows hanging about the grounds, and we have seen a couple of them with extensive white on their wings. Pretty cool. I'd love to see Sibley et al show this color variant in their next editions.
Brett A. Wolfe gismybabe at yahoo.com Seattle, WA
Cliff Drake <cliff at cliffdrake.net> wrote:Hi Tweets

There's also a crow like that that hangs around the pond in Golden Gardens
Park in Ballard. It's been there for several months at least. It looks
streaked with the wings folded but mostly white flight feathers edged with
black when flying. Very striking. Next time I'm down there with my camera
I'll look for it.

How do you ask a crow to open it's wings and hold still?
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Cliff Drake
SW Ballard, Seattle, WA
cliff at cliffdrake.net

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Pied Crows
From: "bassclef at seanet.com"
Date: Tue, October 22, 2002 1:33 pm
To: mapste at coastaccess.com, tweeters at u.washington.edu

I can't address Mapste's questions, but there has been a pied-looking
Crow hanging around the south side of the Ship Canal (QA side) in the
vicinity of Diers Bindery, which is on Nickerson St a bit west (?;
towards the Olympics) of the Fremont Bridge. Strange-looking bird.

Mary Klein
Seattle WA
bassclef at seanet.com


Original Message:
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From: mapste mapste at coastaccess.com
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:09:51 -0700
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: Pied Crows


I was browsing through the fabulous pictures in the gallery when I
happened upon Michael Hobbs' two photos of American Crows, pied. I
have seen several of these around Ocean Shores the past two years and
couldn't imagine what was with the crows with the white spots and
stripes! Now I see I am not alone, or crazy. However I am uninformed
about pied birds. Can someone explain what this is about? What
causes it? How often it happens? Are their offspring pied? etc.


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