And a few of SkinheadThink the feathers are growing back a littleWe can see you
Lot to learn
Thanks Doggie, I had posted a couple more but seem to have a bit of trouble tonight as only half appearing!!!
Yes could do, but him indoors is getting lonely watching nothing on TV!!
Looks like a very handsome crow to me! Lovely capture of him in mid-verbal!
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Thanks Clare, had an idea it was crow but I can never be sure. "Mid-verbal" ... like that!!
Hi Gaynor, I used to struggle with this one as well. After spending some time staring at the books I came up with this:
- if it's all one colour it's a crow (monocrowm!) but if the beak is a different colour it's a rook.
Gill
An adult Rook:
An adult Carrion Crow:
The Rook's pale bill base makes it easy to tell them apart. The problem arises with juvenile Rooks, which have black feathers around the bill base, like a Carrion Crow. Then you have to use more subtle characteristics to tell them apart, which include bill shape (top line of CC's bill is more downcurved, while Rook's bill is straighter and stabbier), the more peaked head and 'loosely feathered' look of Rook, and various differences in flight outline. Juvenile Rooks will probably be in the company of adult Rooks too :) I don't have a pic of a juvenile Rook so here's a link to one I found online: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1038/581896653_3121badf37_b.jpg
My blog: http://mazzaswildside.blogspot.co.uk/
My Flickr page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/124028194@N04/
Thanks Gill, that's a good one for memory such a mine (monocrowm)!!!
and Aiki...thanks very much for the info, and the great pics that make it easy to identify. Those babes are terrific, and if I remember correctly very noisy.