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Killing two birds with one stone: kitty and birdie ping.


2 posted on 01/15/2012 7:06:43 PM PST by beaversmom
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24 posted on 01/15/2012 9:26:29 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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Boy, I spend the day relaxing and watching football and I miss all the fun!

I didn't know what sort of corvid that was so I went on-line and looked it up. It appears it is an Old World carrion crow (also called hooded crow). This from the link:

The European Carrion Crow, Corvus corone, flies with regular wing beats in a dead straight line when going somewhere in particular, hence the common statement 'such and such a place is x miles distant as the crow flies' meaning in a straight line. There are 6 subspecies of the Carrion Crow, several of which are distinctly coloured in white or grey and are called Hooded Crows. Hooded Crows have a more northerly and easterly distribution than the Carrion Crow.

The pictures they showed looked exactly like this crow too. So that's my best guess!

Thanks for the pings!

36 posted on 01/16/2012 8:34:51 AM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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