Subject: [Tweeters] Do Crows Murmurate? / Caryn / Wedgwood
Date: Nov 9 10:54:49 2015
From: Devorah the Ornithologist - birdologist at gmail.com


i saw that video. they were wrong and you are right. those are starlings
forming a "murmuration". crows never fly like that.


On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Caryn Schutzler <bluedarner1 at seanet.com>
wrote:

> Morning Tweeters,
>
> On local news a video (this am on NWCN) of murmurating birds in Renton.
> Person filming thinks it is crows, but I'm inclined to think starlings,
> looking more like the videos I've seen of them (starlings) in Scotland.
>
> Any thoughts on this? (I'm thinking they may, but not to the spectacle of
> starlings, but then I shouldn't put it past them...)
>
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