LOCAL HEADLINES
Thousands of crows have descended on Lawrence, and nobody knows why
By Dugan Arnett Globe Staff,Updated February 17, 2020, 3:27 p.m. LAWRENCE — They arrive, every evening, by the thousands, [...]
MassAudubon: Crows Connecting a Community
by Craig Gibson While by no means ubiquitous, winter crow roosts can be found in urban environments [...]
Lawrence Winter Crow Roost Becomes Catalyst for Artistic Expression, Community Outreach, and Citizen Science
BIRD OBSERVER Vol. 47, No.6, 2019
By Craig B. Gibson
It’s a phenomenon that rivals a work of art: the winter crow roost in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
When the Crows Come Home to Roost
Muse Magazine is a well known magazine for students about science, culture, and nature. It has just published a [...]
Crow Patrol Recap 2018-2019
Download Full Report For many of our faithful readers, thought you might enjoy the just completed report [...]
Crow Patrol: Dec 2018 Pellet Analysis
In early December 2018, the truck depot parking lot along South Canal St. in Lawrence, MA provided ample opportunity [...]
Museum Open House: Recent exhibition about crows at the Essex Art Center
Museum Open House features and highlights many of the outstanding museums and art centers throughout the state. The main [...]
Museum Open House with Jay Sugarman – Essex Art Center
Museum Open House (@New-TV) is an ongoing series that features and highlights many of the outstanding museums and other [...]
Birds of a Feather — Why Crows Congregate in Winter
This time of year, there's an evening spectacle taking place in treetops in cities, towns and around the countryside. [...]
Crows flock to downtown Middlebury
MIDDLEBURY — If you’ve walked around downtown Middlebury at dusk this winter, you’ve seen them: thousands of [...]
Crow Patrol: Artful crows!
Artful crows Andover artist takes part in an ode to smart, charming birds By Terry Date Staff writer Jan [...]
Lawrence has an art show to crow about
Boston Globe | By Annika Hom | Globe Correspondent | January 16, 2019 It’s almost sunset in Lawrence when [...]
‘Black Cloud’ of Roosting Crows Haunts Pennsylvania Street for Over a Month
Every dusk for the past month a dark and wide cloud whooshes into east Allentown, Pennsylvania and swallows the [...]
Gleanings: Who Knows Where the Crows Go?
This article by David M. Larson, PhD, recaps a recent research study by Prof. Andrea Townsend on the partial migration [...]
Essex Art Center 2019 Crow Show: Eagle Tribune!
Essex Art Center celebrates winter crow roost Dec 26, 2018 LAWRENCE —The Essex Art Center will present exhibitions and [...]
Crow Roost: aerial views
Just happened to bump into a drone enthusiast while out looking at the Crow Roost area. He offered to [...]
Family Dynamics in a Crow’s Nest!
Just reviewed a news release from Hamilton College, located in Clinton, N.Y., on the results of a fascinating recent [...]
Counting crows in Lawrence: Would you believe 15,000?
LAWRENCE — Sitting in their station wagon atop a hill in the Immaculate Conception Cemetery on a cold, windy afternoon, Dana Duxbury-Fox and her husband, Bob Fox, scan the sky with binoculars.
In Lawrence, a massive and wily flock of crows delivers a winter mix of urban and wild
It's an hour before sunset on a January afternoon as Bob and Dana Fox step into their Subaru carrying binoculars and notepads to pursue the massive flock of crows about to descend after a day foraging as far away as Plum Island and beyond.
NATIONAL HEADLINES
MassAudubon: Crows Connecting a Community
by Craig Gibson While by no means ubiquitous, winter crow roosts can be found in urban environments [...]
Crow Patrol Recap 2018-2019
Download Full Report For many of our faithful readers, thought you might enjoy the just completed report [...]
Crows know how to have fun!
An article just released by Peter Reull in the Harvard Gazette reports on a study about Crows that has [...]
Nat Geo: Crows Love Cheeseburgers!
National Geographic highlights a new research report on American Crows that has just been published in the bird journal The [...]
Lawrence has an art show to crow about
Boston Globe | By Annika Hom | Globe Correspondent | January 16, 2019 It’s almost sunset in Lawrence when [...]
Portland’s Crows Are Back. So Are the Laser-Guided Hawks That Scare Them Off.
Portland Mercury | By Sarah Vitak | December 2018 They’re back. If you’ve been downtown the past few weeks, [...]
For decades, a Halifax neighbourhood has been known for a murder (of crows)
CBC News | By Frances Willick | December 2018 They arrive alone, in pairs or in small groups, flying [...]
Feces and noise: 11 Upstate NY cities with too many crows
NewYorkUpstate.com | By David Figura | November 19, 2018 It's that time of year when American crows are flocking [...]
Pitt is waging a war on crows with audio CDs and holiday laser lights
The Incline | By Colin Deppen | October 26, 2018 A group of crows is called “a murder.” That [...]
Family Dynamics in a Crow’s Nest!
Just reviewed a news release from Hamilton College, located in Clinton, N.Y., on the results of a fascinating recent [...]
2018: In the Company of Corvids – North Cascades Institute
Post and photos submitted by Craig Gibson From June 29 through June 31, 2018, the North Cascades Institute hosted Prof. John [...]
2018 NCI “Crow School” – Bob Fox
Post submitted by Bob Fox with photos from Craig Gibson It was a warm, sunny mid-June day in Seattle, [...]
Crows are one Pennsylvania’s most intelligent birds
They were black silhouettes scattered among a maze of tree limbs set on a backdrop of blue sky. What were they? Crows, and lots of them, and with more to come.
Ornithologists say the region’s few crow roosts should be embraced; others not so sure
On most winter nights, 30,000 to 40,000 crows fill Hill District trees overlooking Bigelow Boulevard. It's a loud, dramatic spectacle that obviously brings to mind Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 movie, "The Birds."
Nampa collects data, organizes group to find solution to crow problem
NAMPA — In recent months, hundreds of crows have been spotted perched on power lines running next to Nampa-Caldwell Boulevard or gathering in the parking lots of local businesses.
Crows crowd downtown Portland: Enter the hawk.
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What are the crows talking about? Researchers are listening in
Another winter. Another congregation of crows in Terre Haute. The city continues its annual struggle to cope with an influx of thousands, and often tens of thousands of American crows, from their October arrival to their March departure.
Counting Crows
Crows make tools. Understand stoplights. Mate for life. Hold funerals. Remember a face. And wreak havoc on our cars and sidewalks.
Rooftop wiretap aims to learn what crows gossip about at dusk
What are crows saying when their loud cawing fills a dark winter’s evening? Despite the inescapable ruckus, nobody knows for sure. Birds congregate daily before and after sleep, and they make some noise, but what might be happening in those brains is a mystery.
Ever wonder about the massive flock of crows in winter in Ithaca?
ITHACA, N.Y. — If you've been in Ithaca any evening this winter, you've likely heard the eerie sound of thousands of crows overhead filling the winter sky as they head to their roost for the night in the south of the city.