American Crow
| Corvus brachyrhynchos | Order: Passeriformes | Family: Corvidae (Crows, Jays, and Magpies) |
Corvus brachyrhynchos
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Corvidae (Crows, Jays, and Magpies)
This big corvid is devoted to its mate, family, and neighbors. Young often remain with their parents a year or two, helping them raise their next brood. Intelligent and sociable, crows embody some of the best characteristics we humans pride ourselves on.
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Laura's Published Works
Radio Programs
- Crow vocalizations and good news 2024
- Crows and the Unknowable 2024
- Starting 2024 Right! 2024
- Birding on a Warmish December Day 2023
- Flamingo Road, Part I 2023
- Drama on Peabody Street 2023
- Teach Your Children Well, Part 1 2023
- Fascinating Robin Story 2023
- Dee Dee Nana and Walter's first official Bird Walk 2023
- Looking for Spring in All the Wrong Places 2023
- Spring Update 2023
- 2022 Duluth Christmas Bird Count, Part 2 2022
- 2022 Duluth Christmas Bird Count results, Part 1 2022
- Birds in Art, Part I: A little history 2022
- Alaska, Part 9: Birding Our Way to Seward 2022
- Walter's Beautiful Neighborhood 2022
- Homemade Books and Picture Cards for Small Children 2022
- Bird Flu and Other Feeder Issues 2022
- Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza 2022
- Sounds of Early Spring 2022
- Transition from Winter to Spring 2022
- Chickadee Day 2022: The Worst of Times 2022
- Feeding Birds, Part III: Peanuts and Peanut Butter 2022
- Birding from Home, 2021 2021
- Chickadee Worries 2021
- Spring Update 2021
- Song Sparrows! 2021
- Bird Feeding Ideas 2020
- Superstitions about Owls, Part I 2020
- Dependent Nestlings 2020
- Fun with Blue Jays 2020
- May in August 2020
- Laura's Best Bird EVER! Baby Flickers 2020
- Summertime, and the Livin's Not Easy 2020
- Backyard Happenings 2020
- Exsanguination 2020
- By the Dawn's Early Dark 2020
- Laura's Neighborhood Surveillance Program 2020
- Spying on My Backyard Birds 2020
- Backyard Fox! 2020
- Cacawphony 2020
- November Drear 2019
- Listener Question: Where Are the Chickadees? 2019
- American Redstart on Peabody Street 2019
- Babies! 2019
- From the Archives: Great Horned Owl Drama 2019
- Superb Owl Sunday 2019 2019
- Letter from Listener: Chelsea's Falling Turtle 2019
- KAXE Listener Letter: Stephen Lorentz's Crow 2019
- First Bird of 2019 2019
- Koni Sundquist 2018
- Letter from Listener: Becca's Great Gray Owl 2018
- Of Lifer Owls and Extraordinary Sporting Wins 2018
- Owls 2018
- Human Social Evolution 2017
- Moseying through the Bog 2017
- Pink-capped Marchers 2017
- Birding at Brooklyn Bridge Park with Heather Wolf 2016
- Red-bellied Woodpecker Nest Update 2016
- Correcting Egregious Errors 2016
- The Lusty Month of May on Peabody Street 2016
- Savoring a Slow Spring 2016
- Stephen Ingraham's Poems 2016
- Larking About with John Richardson 2016
- Baby Squirrel: A story with a happy ending 2015
- Gifts from Birds and Other Internet Stories 2015
- Fishicles 2015
- New Beginnings 2015
- Western Scrub-Jay funerals 2015
- Oldest Wild Birds 2014
- Auto Collisions and Birds 2014
- Keeping a Life List 2012
- They Shoot Hawks, Don't They? 2012
- Bald Eagle Migration: 2012 2012
- Empathy 2011
- Owl Controversy Part I 2011
- Better Angels 2011
- Cure for Nature Deficit Disorder 2011
- Mystical Connections, Part I 2011
- Woodstock 2011
- New Year's Day predictions based on your first bird of the year 2011
- Cooperation: An Overview (Part 1) 2009
- Individuality of Crows 2009
- Baby-Proofing the World of Birds 2009
- Museum Collections 2009
- Pine Siskin 2009
- Grief 2008
- Baker Woodlot Then and Now 2008
- Ithaca: New Yard List! 2008
- Environment Then and Now 2007
- Autumn 2007
- Movie Review: Hairspray 2007
- Peregrine Watch, 2007 2007
- Baby Merlins 2007
- Ice Storms 2007
- Peter Dring's Stories 2007
- Looking for Owls with Sharon 2007
- Christmas Bird Count 2006 2006
- Pathogens 2006
- Dead Bunny 2006
- Preventing Bird Diseases 2006
- Street Patrol 2006
- Crow vs. Squirrel 2006
- Katie's Graduation 2006
- For the Birds at 20 Years! 2006
- Sunday Spring Walk 2006
- Birds in the Movies 2006
- Crows 2005
- Chickadee Vocabularies and Bird Brains 2005
- Haying 2005
- Birds in the News: Duck Die-off 2005
- Owl Strife 2005
- Birds in the News: New Map of the Bird Brain 2005
- Owl Behavior 2005
- Great Gray Owl 2005
- Bird of the Year: Black-capped Chickadee 2005
- Saved by a Hummingbird 2004
- November Evening Grosbeaks 2004
- Aurora 2004
- West Nile Virus: Crows dealing with grief 2004
- Migration Report 2004
- Great Horned Owl Drama 2004
- Missing Pelicans 2004
- Learning to Recognize Everyday Birds 2004
- Goatsuckers 2004
- Spring Is Coming! 2004
- The Great Backyard Bird Count, 2004 2004
- New Year 2004: Pileated Woodpecker 2004
- Planning New Years Resolutions 2003
- Changing Bird Numbers 2003
- Capitalizing on Death 2003
- Mealworms 2003
- Warbler Massacre 2003
- Rock Pigeon 2003
- Rats 2003
- Yard List, Part II 2003
- Home from Ohio 2003
- Common Grackle 2003
- Crows 2003
- Winter: the Sounds of Silence 2003
- Sleeping Tight 2002
- West Nile Virus in Chicago 2002
- Parasites 2002
- West Nile Virus 2002
- Army Worms 2002
- Red-winged Blackbird 2002
- Awkward Season 2002
- Cruisin' with Spring 2002
- American Crow: Our First Sign of Spring 2002
- New Year's Chickadees 2002
- How the Raven Saved Christmas (reworked) 2001
- West Nile Virus, Part II 2001
- West Nile Virus 2001
- American Kestrel 2001
- Nighthawks: Gentle Spirits of the Night Sky 2001
- Extraterrestrials 2001
- Why Birds? 2001
- Expressions Part I 2001
- Alaska Chickadees with Deformed Bills 2001
- Bonza Bottler Day: Headed to Costa Rica! 2001
- Gifts for the Birds, Part I 2000
- Using Crows for an Election 2000
- John Oberholtzer Poem for All Souls Day 2000
- Protective Gear 2000
- Poem by John Oberholtzer: Bird Legs 2000
- Warblers and Edge 2000
- Slow Down! You Move Too Fast (Re-recorded) 2000
- Blackbirds and Black Birds 2000
- Movie Review: Sleepy Hollow 2000
- Adjusting to Less 2000
- Millennial Birds 2000
- Bald Eagles in Winter 1999
- Sixteen Years 1999
- Birds in the Movies 1999
- Passenger Pigeon (reworked from 1989) 1999
- Something to Crow About 1999
- Ovenbird 1999
- Magpies 1999
- Turtles 1999
- Saw-whet Owls: Early Spring 1999
- Crows (placeholder) 1999
- Jim Baker's Top Movie Awards for 1998 1999
- The Land of Giant Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes 1999
- Birding on Skis 1999
- Bird Tools 1999
- Birds vs. Politics 1998
- Valentine's Day 1998
- Crows (placeholder) 1997
- Barred Owl 1997
- Noisy Baby Crows 1997
- Collections 1997
- April 1997
- Spring is here—almost 1997
- Star Wars 1997
- Great Gray Owl 1997
- Lakewood Pumping Station 1996
- Protective Gear 1996
- Kowabunga! 1996
- Robert Frost 1996
- Book Review: Bird Brains 1995
- Albinism and Leucism 1995
- Chestnut-sided Warbler 1995
- Merlins at the School Bus Stop 1995
- Shakespeare's Birds 1995
- Siskins and Crows 1995
- Signs of Spring 1995
- Signs of Spring 1995
- Romance 1995
- Ravens 1995
- Isabella Christmas Bird Count 1995 1995
- Using Tools 1994
- Exsanguination 1994
- World of Wheels 1994
- Crows (Placeholder) 1994
- Robert Frost 1994
- Interest in birds 1994
- Bird tools 1994
- Avian Physiology 1994
- Winter Feathers 1994
- Crows and Ravens (Placeholder) 1993
- Disney Crows (Placeholder) 1993
- Crows (Placeholder) 1993
- How the Raven Saved Christmas 1992
- Patty the Crow 1992
- Going on Vacation (Placeholder) 1992
- Lazy Summer Days (Placeholder) 1992
- Ravens 1992
- Cats 1992
- Sneakers's First Word 1992
- Allergies 1992
- Baby Crow 1992
- Patty Crow 1992
- Bird Songs 1992
- Crows 1992
- Bird Populations 1991
- Collective Birds 1991
- Home Construction 1991
- Baby Jays 1991
- Protecting Babies 1991
- Birding along I-35 1991
- Sounds of Spring Migration 1991
- Hearts 1991
- Owls and Crows, and DinoJay Action Figures 1990
- Northern Oriole 1990
- How the Raven Saved Christmas (Original) 1989
- Callie and Sam 1989
- Passenger Pigeon 1989
- Coin Collecting 1989
- Gift Ideas: Other Bird Books 1989
- Winter Hush 1989
- Callie the Crow 1989
- Bird Expressions, Part I 1989
- Bird Brains 1989
- Flocking 1989
- Crows and Ravens 1989
- Mites! 1989
- Calpurnia II 1989
- Piano Lessons 1989
- Mobbing and Piracy 1989
- Children and Birds (Placeholder) 1989
- Birds Laura Is Taking Care Of (Placeholder) 1989
- Dawn Dickey Duty 1989
- Collective Nouns for Birds 1989
- Trends in bird populations 1989
- Deformed Birds around Duluth 1989
- Bird Song Awareness Week 1989
- Eclipse Plumage (Date confirmed) 1989
- Where are the hummingbirds? 1989
- Tent Caterpillars and Cuckoos 1989
- Questions about birds 1989
- Mourning Dove 1989
- Baltimore Oriole 1989
- Merlins 1989
- Slow Down! 1989
- Attracting Birds in Late Spring 1989
- April 1989
- White-crowned Sparrow 1989
- Crows 1989
- Migration Report 1989
- Great Horned Owl 1989
- Early Spring Songs 1989
- Spring is on its way 1989
- Bird Collecting. 1989
- Bird Collecting. 1989
- Owl Calls 1989
- Winter: Snow-bathing Snow 1989
- Bird Report 1989
- Valentine's Day 1989 1989
- How birds survive winter 1989
- Attracting Birds 1989
- Couch Potato Birding 1989
- Bird Feeder Winter Contest 1988
- Bird Feeding 1988
- Autumn's End 1988
- Crow Hunting Season 1988
- Calpurnia the Raven 1988
- Identifying birds in flight 1988
- WHOA! Big Day at the Pumping Station 1988
- Collective Nouns for Birds 1988
- Autumn Ambivalence and the Death of Icarus the Crow 1988
- Dog Days 1988
- Bentsen State Park, and Crow Hunting Controversy 1988
- This year's drought 1988
- Anting 1988
- Crow Season Update 1988
- Brown Thrasher 1988
- Blackbirds! 1988
- New Crow Hunting Season 1988
- More Questions about Birds 1988
- Crows and other spring arrivals 1988
- Spring Update 1988
- Accessing Memory 1988
- Pileated Woodpecker (reworked from 1987) 1988
- Common Redpoll 1988
- Why Birds Attract People 1988
- Eagles in Winter 1988
- Economic Systems of Birds 1987
- Pot Pourri 1987
- Scavengers: The Garbagemen of the Bird World. 1987
- Flocking 1987
- Bird Brains 1987
- Pot Pourri 1987
- Ravens and Crows 1987
- Letter from Icarus 1987
- Dawn Dickey Duty 1987
- Icarus the Crow 1987
- Crows 1987
- Ravens 1987
- Birding by Canoe 1987
- Are our gulls out of Hitchcock? 1987
- Some questions about birds 1987
- Birding from a Car with Kids 1987
- Orioles 1987
- Feed the Birds 1987
- Slow Down! You Move Too Fast (Original) 1987
- Cracking the Code of All Bird Language 1987
- Robert Frost's birthday 1987 1987
- Bald Eagle migration 1987 1987
- Disney's Crows 1987
- Blue Jay 1987
- Pileated Woodpecker 1987
- Crows and Ravens 1986
- A Birder's Guide to the Movies 1986
- Legal Protection of Birds 1986
- Blue Jay 1986
- Where Are the Hummingbirds? 1986
- Informal Poll Results 1986
- Crows (and Robert Frost's "Dust of Snow") 1986
Sound Recordings
- Breakfast in the Driftless 2024
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker: 7 1/2 minutes of drumming and calls 2024
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker drumming: 5 sets 2024
- Redpolls at my feeder 2024
- LeConte's Sparrow, 8 Songs 2023
- After the Ice Storm, in the Snow 2023
- Early spring: 14 minutes 2023
- Early morning in early July in Port Wing, Wisconsin 2022
- Lincoln's Sparrow songs 2022
- Lincoln's Sparrow: a minute and a half of song 2022
- Blue Jay making 22 whiny "jay" calls 2022
- Dawn from my office window 2022
- Over an hour of morning song at raspberry bushes 2022
- Mid-morning, 2 hours outside office window 2022
- An Hour of Early Morning Song 2022
- Common Redpolls: 45 minutes 2022
- Blue Jay: 16 fairly close raspy "jay" calls 2022
- Common Redpolls and one Pine Siskin 2022
- Black-capped Chickadee: 45 seconds of dee-dee-dee calls 2022
- European Starling imitates Killdeer 2022
- Common Redpoll: Rising call notes 2022
- Common Redpolls and Merlin 2022
- European Starling: 40 Seconds 2022
- Common Redpoll: Over 11 minutes of chattering 2022
- Common Redpoll 2022
- Cardinal Singing Bout: 8 songs 2022
- White-breasted Nuthatch song and calls 2022
- Black-capped Chickadee, 2 gargle calls 2022
- Black-capped Chickadees, Common Redpolls, and American Crows 2022
- Black-billed Cuckoo 2021
- Gray Catbird: 2-minute Song Bout 2021
- Gray Catbird's First Song, 4:48 am 2021
- Gray Catbird: Entire song bout, almost 14 minutes 2021
- Pine Siskin: 1 "Zip" 2021
- Fifty Minutes of Evening Grosbeaks! 2021
- Mid-April Dawn Chorus 2021
- American Robin, 5 1/2 minutes of song 2021
- Dark-eyed Junco 2021
- Morning song, April 10 2021
- Morning Song, June 21 2020
- Dawn Chorus, June 20, 2020 2020
- Red-eyed Vireo: 48 minutes of steady singing. 2020
- Half Hour of House Wren Dawn Singing 2020
- Brown Thrasher: 10 minutes 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 31, 2020 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 23, 2020 2020
- Chipping Sparrow: 5 songs 2020
- Morning Song: May 7 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 5 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 4 2020
- Windy Morning Dawn Chorus, May 3 2020
- American Crow: Loud caws in my backyard 2020
- Northern Flicker: 8 minutes of calling 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 2 2020
- Backyard Blue-headed Vireo 2020
- Morning Songs, May 1 2020
- Backyard Dawn Chorus, April 30 2020
- White-throated Sparrow: 1 minute 2020
- White-throated Sparrow: 4 songs 2020
- Morning Twitterings 2020
- Robin singing at midmorning 2020
- Northern Flicker: 2 calls and drums 2020
- Le Conte's Sparrow: Several songs 2019
- Savannah Sparrow: 12 Songs 2019
- Persistent Young American Redstart 2019
- Downy Woodpecker: 3 1/2 minutes of drumming 2019
- Downy Woodpecker: 19 sets of drumming calls 2019
- Eastern Meadowlark: 10 songs 2019
- Sharp-tailed Grouse: 18 minutes of displaying 2019
- Sharp-tailed Grouse: 3 minutes of displaying and calling males 2019
- Dawn on Hog Island, 2018 2018
- Dark-eyed Junco: 5 songs 2018
- Song Sparrow: 7 songs 2018
- Northern Parula: 11 songs 2018
- Northern Parula at Hog Island 2018
- Purple Finch at Hog Island 2018
- Song Sparrow: Entire singing bout 2018
- Tufted Titmouse: Trempealeau, Wisconsin 2018
- House Wren: 13 songs 2018
- House Wren: 6 minutes of singing 2018
- Dawn in Trempealeau, Wisconsin; May 12, 2018 2018
- Northern Cardinal: 9 songs 2018
- Prairie Warbler: 6 different songs 2018
- Evening Grosbeaks 2018
- Hog Island sounds, June 4, 2016, 7:20 am 2016
- Dawn in a Sharp-tailed Grouse blind 2016
- 25 minutes in a Sharp-tailed Grouse blind 2016
- Chickadees mobbing small owl 2016
- Dawn chorus in Minocqua, Wisconsin 2009
- Ellis Hollow Dawn 2008
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 2 mews 2003
- American Crow family on Big Pete 2001
- Pine Warbler---11 songs 2001
- Ovenbird, 3 songs 2001
- Black-capped Chickadee singing persistently 2001
- American Crow cawing 2001
- Black-capped Chickadee song 2001
- Dawn Chorus, Port Wing near sewage ponds 2001
- Black-capped Chickadee 18 songs 2001
- Sedge Wren 2001
- Fox Sparrows and other April birds 2001