Tag: aiken audubon society
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Bird Call: Monogamy lessons from birds
Albatross and hawks do it. Greater sage grouse and prairie chickens don’t do it. Humans do and don’t do it. Let’s do it, let’s stay monogamous. Or not. We’re all a little birdlike in our varying levels of comfortability with commitment, aren’t we? Some of us are bald eagles who pair up early and stay…
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Bird Call: Crows, glorious crows; smart, chatty, loud
Crows, much like squirrels, have always existed on the periphery for me. This, even though I’ve always been particularly pleased by the phrase “murder of crows,” or group of crows. Also delightful: committee of vultures, parliament of owls and gulp of cormorants. The big, black birds always seemed to be around, plucking at some poor…