Subject: [Tweeters] Question about crows
Date: May 16 12:51:43 2012
From: Linda Bainbridge - lbainbridge at uicalumni.org


Would or could a crow kill an adult woodpecker?

As I was walking down my lane this morning, I heard the crows making a
ruckus and looked around for a predator. One of the crows was on the
grass beside the lane, and as I walked toward him, he flew away along
with several other crows that had been sitting in a nearby tree.

There on the ground was a dead Red-breasted Sapsucker. So could the
crows have killed it? I couldn't find any obvious wounds but its eyes
seem to be missing.

Linda Bainbridge
lbainbridge at uicalumni.org <mailto:lbainbridge at uicalumni.org>
Greenbank, Whidbey Island