Yeah, I heard that, too - I was laughing when they talked about the crows knowing them and passing on the info so those two guys are never free from cawing - Tippi Hedren has some tips for those guys.
Hitchcock praised the intelligence of his crows in The Birds, he said they could understand anything. They even read the storyboards with interest, I believe.
Are you familair with Van Dyke? He's quite a character. A child prodigy he studied music composition with Percy Grainger. After his actign career he famously collaborated with Brian Wilson on a great number of songs for the legenday "Smile" album and has produced numerous albums of his own material. He also did arrangements for Randy Newman and Ry Cooder.
In other corvid news, the BBC reports that rooks will recreate Aesop's fables on their own. They will use pebbles to raise the height of water in a glass in order to bring water (or in this case, a worm) close enough for their beaks to reach: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8181233.stm
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Yeah, I heard that, too - I was laughing when they talked about the crows knowing them and passing on the info so those two guys are never free from cawing - Tippi Hedren has some tips for those guys.
Tokyo is currently plauged by crows.
And here I was waiting for Dumbo to show up.
My wife was in Bodega Bay this past May but doesn't recognize any of these guys.
"Be kind to crows"
--Campaspe
And sea gulls...
Good grief. I'm headed to the metro where I'd be bumping beaks with crows of all sizes.
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Hitchcock praised the intelligence of his crows in The Birds, he said they could understand anything. They even read the storyboards with interest, I believe.
I should have reminded everybody but The Swan starring Grace Kelly and Van Dyke Parks is on Turner Classic Movies right this minute.
David, I might have known you'd like that movie too...
Are you familair with Van Dyke? He's quite a character. A child prodigy he studied music composition with Percy Grainger. After his actign career he famously collaborated with Brian Wilson on a great number of songs for the legenday "Smile" album and has produced numerous albums of his own material. He also did arrangements for Randy Newman and Ry Cooder.
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In other corvid news, the BBC reports that rooks will recreate Aesop's fables on their own. They will use pebbles to raise the height of water in a glass in order to bring water (or in this case, a worm) close enough for their beaks to reach:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8181233.stm
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