[NatureNS] Crows doing stand-up comedy?

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If your neighbour wants to I would love to see the film!  I like crows, 
my son once had one as a pet which he called Edgar Allen Crow.  We live 
in the woods & I think the local crows have found us.

On 28/09/11 8:45 PM, Patrick Kelly wrote:
> Hello:
>
> One of my co-workers has several large trees near his house in
> Dartmouth. On several recent occasions, he has noticed very unusual
> behavior in a group of about 15-20 crows in his area. They will land in
> the trees, and then one of them will start making strange sounds for a
> bit and stop, at which point the rest will move their bodies, and wings,
> and make all sorts of sounds for about 10 seconds or so and they will
> all quiet down again. The same crow will come out with another strange
> set of sounds, and at the cenclusion the rest of the crows will repeat
> the same type of motions and calls. He has watched this go on for about
> 10 minutes, and they they all fly off. He said that if he didn't know
> better, it looked as if the lead bird was doing a stand-up comedy act
> with the other crows laughing at the end of each joke.
>
> On one occasion, he had company and they witnessed the same behaviour
> and got the same impression. I was curious as to whether anyone else has
> seen this type of hing happen. He is hoping to try to get it on camera.
>
> Pat
>
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