From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Sep 12 18:00:03 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i8D0vtwT014278 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:57:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ylpvm29.prodigy.net (ylpvm29-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.60]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i8D0v41c014240 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:57:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phainopepla (adsl-63-206-117-96.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.117.96]) by ylpvm29.prodigy.net (8.12.10 outbound/8.12.10) with SMTP id i8D0unIp032085; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:56:51 -0400 From: "Mark W. Eaton" <[[email protected]]> To: "'James Turley - Sky Image Lab'" <[[email protected]]>, <[[email protected]]> Subject: RE: [SBB] Crow mourning behavior Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:56:59 -0700 Message-ID: <026001c4992c$93919960$6401a8c0@phainopepla> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 In-Reply-To: <062401c4992a$320ac7e0$0300a8c0@bali> Importance: Normal Cc: X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5b1 Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fumereal rituals for large corvids are fairly well documented, though I don't seem to have a reference at hand. Mark --- Mark W. Eaton mailto:[[email protected]] http://www.markeaton.org -----Original Message----- From: south-bay-birds-bounces+mweaton=[[email protected]] [mailto:south-bay-birds-bounces+mweaton=[[email protected]]]On Behalf Of James Turley - Sky Image Lab Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 5:40 PM To: [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] Crow mourning behavior That's "mourning", not morning. On Sept 10 in Saratoga at Sunnyvale-Saratoga and Thelma, I noticed about 30 black crows circling about 100' above the road in perfect silent circular formation. I looked at the road below, and, sadly, there was a very large electrocuted crow under a high tension electrical line. I watched for 30 minutes, and the crows did not break formation, slowly and silently circling above their fallen comrade. Am I attributing human emotions to this crow behavior? Or...do birds mourn? James Turley Saratoga _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/mweaton%40pacbell. net This email sent to [[email protected]] _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]