Hello Tweeters!

I've got a question about crows. Our next door neighbors have semi-tame
crows frequenting their property. One crow makes sounds that remind me of
American Bitterns. When I first moved here I thought bitterns were indeed
frequenting the area wetlands......including the ones on our property! No
bitterns, just a crow with an unusual "vocabulary". Our neighbor called
this semi-tame crow CawCaw! Well, CawCaw! vanished sometime in 2009, and a
pile of crow feathers suggested the bird may have been killed. We didn't
hear the distinctive call again until recently. Now, another crow is
hanging out at our neighbor's property and making the same unusual
bittern-like call. We're calling it CawCaw! 2.0.

Okay, how long do crows live? Could this bird we're calling CawCaw! 2.0 be
the offspring of the original bird?

Oh, and this crow gets along with our neighbors' more traditional pets. The
traditional pets ignore the crow, and even when the crow in on the ground
and one of the traditional pets walks by, the crow walks away or flys just a
short distance like to the top of a fence post and then hops down when the
traditional pet has passed.

Could this crow not only be the offspring of CawCaw! 1.0, but learned from
the parental birds that our neighbor's place is friendly territory? And
learned the unusual call from the parental birds? Watching the interspecies
interactions on the other side of the fence is remarkable!

Lydia,
Near Snohomish
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