Fifty Birds of Town and City
Crow (Corvus sp.)
Crows are smart enough to adapt quickly to urban life, and crows nest in such unlikely places as
alongside the Pentagon, and feed in the White House grounds in Washington, D.C..
Typically, crows feed in the early hours before many people are out, retreating to
parks or fields when disturbed. Crows with their nest-robbing, crop destroying habits are often
exaggerated, and less attention paid to their diet of grubs, beetles, mice, and other
pests.
Grackles, martins, flycatchers and other smaller birds, recognizing them as
marauders, will chase crows in the spring and summer. Watching the little feathered
dive-bombers attack the lumbering crow is quite a show, the larger bird always retreating
as best he can, sometimes losing a few feathers, but seldom his dignity.
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