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Possible to Train Crows.

     The search for food is the crow’s chief business, although his love for glittering things causes him to wander from his ordered road when attracted by the gleam of some object at a distance. If this object of his curiosity can be transported, he takes it. The crow is easily tamed, but the process […]

Brief Notes, Crows.

Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on 09/23/1876.      The Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club has the following remarkable ancedote’ of the intelligence of a crow: A tame crow [Corvus Americanus] in my possession has repeatly amused me by the the novel method he adopts to rid himself of parasites. For this purpose he […]