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Crows are Extremely Adaptable: Living Anywhere From Wilderness Preserves to Urban Centers ... Crows are now One of the Desert Tortoises Primary Predators ...
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1. Crows of the Mojave Desert
2. Common Crow
3. Characteristics
Sometimes Migratory All North American Crows are a Glossy Black About 17 Inches Long at Maturity ~40 Inch Wingspan Believed to Mate for Life
4. The Basics
Among Most Intelligent/Adaptable Birds Largest Brain in Relation to their Size Gregarious Mostly (except during breeding season) 5-10 Year Lifespan Nest Is Large Platform of Sticks
5. Distribution of American Crow
6. Meaning…
Crows are Extremely Adaptable: Living Anywhere From Wilderness Preserves to Urban Centers Eat Basically Anything: insects, lizards, eggs, garbage… They are Smart…Can Outwit Traps
7. The Tortoise and the Crow
Desert Tortoise Populations have Declined Dramatically Since the 1980’s…and the Crow Shares the Blame Crows Seem to Enjoy the Taste of Juvenile Tortoises: in Some Areas Crows are the Cause of more than 50% of Baby Tortoise Deaths Crows are now One of the Desert Tortoises Primary Predators
8. There’s More…
Crows are an Invader Species Cause Trouble at Local Area Dumps
9. Famous Crows
10. Even More Crows
11. Just One More…
12. Crow Recipes
Campfire Crow Smoked Crow Crow on a Stick
13. Henry Ward Beecher Says,
“If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows.”