ABOUT Me
I spend too much time thinking about crows.
Not just crows, of course. I also devote a little time to ravens and jays and occasionally even magpies. But honestly, it’s mostly crows.
I’m not sure any other species of animal on earth, even our much closer primate cousins, has a social structure as close to that of modern Western society as the crow. My own observations are primarily of American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos), of course, since I live in the United States. But by all accounts other crow species worldwide behave in very similar ways, and they’re sometimes eerily similar to us. Their behaviour can shed light on our own as well as being fascinating in itself. Also, I just like them better.
It’s been seven or eight years since I was unexpectedly plunged into my obsession with corvids, and I find myself compulsively writing long responses to posts in crow groups on Reddit and Facebook on a daily basis at this point. So I decided it might be just as well to create a centralized location where I can collect these musings and share them with other corvid nerds, and hopefully learn a few more things from others as well! I got a contact page, feel free to use it!
I’ve spent most of a decade now watching these glorious, sassy, silly, incredibly brilliant creatures with endless fascination. I’ve gone to roosts and pre-roosts, I’ve become the human mother to a one-eyed crow who lives in a wildlife rescue, and I’ve chewed through a ridiculous number of articles and anecdotes and scientific studies. And I am nowhere close to finished.
I spend way too much time thinking about crows, and I guess I might as well start to write a little more of it down.