The Corvid family
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I thought leucism was a term for loss of pigment of which Carrion Crows do suffer as do other birds even Rooks sometimes?
Ive only ever seen one Albino bird, a starling, quite a remarkable sight, the Crow had other family members, but none were as well marked as this bird.
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Do you have a twitch then Richard? Sorry, I didn't know.
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Im partial to Corvids the crow family, these intelligent birds have interesting habits, and despite being described as black are often anything but and i hope these photos will display some of what i enjoy about them.
It's funny you should mention intelligence, as I was walking around Stowe grounds taking my snowy shots of the monuments, there were two Rooks about 500 yards apart in flight and communicating with each other.
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Excellent series, but the Rook is awesome and lovely detail............
Any member of this family are pretty flighty around here, they tend to get persecuted by local farmers
Any member of this family are pretty flighty around here, they tend to get persecuted by local farmers
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Corvids fascinate me! 
I'm hopefully doing a talk on corvids at one of our indoor meetings in the next year or so. I'm using a few books as reference, one of which is very good - 'In the Company of Crows and Ravens'. So far I have photos of Carrion Crow, Raven, Rook, Hooded Crow, Jackdaw, Magpie, Chough and Jay. I'm hoping to get off my bum some point soon and get out to Cobh for a shot of our resident Indian House Crow - which should be interesting! 
Love these shots - and was wondering if (with credit obviously) I'd be able to use that shot and story of the partially leucistic Carrion Crow for my talk?
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I'm hopefully doing a talk on corvids at one of our indoor meetings in the next year or so. I'm using a few books as reference, one of which is very good - 'In the Company of Crows and Ravens'. So far I have photos of Carrion Crow, Raven, Rook, Hooded Crow, Jackdaw, Magpie, Chough and Jay. I'm hoping to get off my bum some point soon and get out to Cobh for a shot of our resident Indian House Crow - which should be interesting! Love these shots - and was wondering if (with credit obviously) I'd be able to use that shot and story of the partially leucistic Carrion Crow for my talk?
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Hi Laura your more than welcome to use the shot, im sorry for my late replyive only just noticed this. There was a family of crows that all displayed this Leucism, but this was by far the best marked bird.
Hope your talk goes well, im surprised the House Crow is still around.
regards brian.
Hope your talk goes well, im surprised the House Crow is still around.
regards brian.