Subject: [Tweeters] crows as raptors?
Date: Jul 7 09:25:51 2016
From: Rick Tyler - rhtyler at gmail.com


Not a crow, but still a corvid, I watched a Western (oops, California)
Scrub-jay snatch up a Wilson's Warbler and fly off with it in its bill. It
was at Big Morongo Canyon in California this spring. I couldn't tell if the
warbler was a juvenile or an adult.

Rick

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 6:00 PM, James P. Beneteau <beneteau at wavecable.com>
wrote:

> OK, I know, according to the literature, that ravens may occasionally take
> small/young birds but I didn't think that crows did. This evening, saw a
> crow (might have been small raven but don't think so) in the yard and he
> had apparently attacked a small bird; might have been a young white-crown
> or gold finch. The crow flew away and the small bird was flapping around
> obviously seriously injured. In a couple of minutes, the crow came back,
> grabbed the small bird and flew away.
> There was only the one bird so not a "murder," but still....
>
> Jim Beneteau
> Arlington, Wa
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