Talk:American crow

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life span
What is the typical life span of this species? Funkyj 18:42, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Use in film
The commentary short on the making of the opening sequence for Six Feet Under (found on disc 1 of the first season DVD collection) says that, for legal reasons, filmmakers must use pied crows with dyed plumage. Can anyone confirm this?

GA Passed
I have passed this article's GA because I believe it feels the GA criteria, being well written, factually accurate, broad in coverage, neutral, and stable. To take this article further, I think a few more inline cites are needed, and a few sections could be fleshed out more. I personally would like to see a more developed section on Nesting and maybe fleshing out Crows in Popular Culture - it's a little too like a Trivia section at the moment. Good work overall, and a great corvid article. Cheers, Corvus coronoides  talk 14:11, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

GA Sweeps (on hold)
Hi again. This article has been reviewed as part of WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force in an effort to ensure all listed Good articles continue to meet the Good article criteria. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed. There is one tag that needs to be taken care of. I will check back in no less than seven days. If progress is being made and issues are addressed, the article will remain listed as a Good article. Otherwise, it may be delisted (such a decision may be challenged through WP:GAR). If improved after it has been delisted, it may be nominated at WP:GAN. Feel free to drop a message on my talk page if you have any questions, and many thanks for all the hard work that has gone into this article thus far. Regards, Corvus coronoides  talk 23:27, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

GA Sweeps (Pass)
This article has been reviewed as part of WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. The article history has been updated to reflect this review. Regards, Corvus coronoides  talk 14:39, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Confused about Long-Distance Visual ID
The text says: If seen flying at a distance from where size estimates are unreliable, the distinctly larger Common Ravens (C. corax) can be distinguished by their almost lozenge-shaped tail...

But, the Raven entry says: Apart from its greater size, the Common Raven differs from its cousins, the crows, by having a larger and heavier beak, a shaggy throat, and a wedge-shaped tail.

What I remember from a vertebrate biology class from about a hundred years ago, the second entry is correct. The raven has a wedge -- or somewhat diamond -- shaped tail in flight; the crow has the lozenge tail. I'm not sure, however.

Should this be changed?

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eoraptor013 (talk • contribs) 20:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Minor formating edit
I edited the Taxonomy headline so it was no longer obscured by the sound sample.--Evilbred (talk) 13:44, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Crow feathers in ultraviolet light
I've read about how the American crow has the ability to see ultraviolet light, and how their feathers show brilliant patterns when viewed with an ultraviolet camera. It would be neat if some information on this was added/found. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chemtype (talk • contribs) 01:24, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

sexual dimorphism
As with lots of birds that mate long term, males and females look a lot alike (not like robins, for example). Are there tell-tale differences? Among raptors, one sex is usually bigger than the other (males in half the species and females in the other half). What about American crows? Are males and females the same size? Leadwind (talk) 23:35, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Distinguishing
"It is also distinguished from the Raven by its smaller, more curved bill than the parallel bill of the raven, and its squared tail." This may be mistaken. The top of a raven's bill is curved; the top of a crow's bill is straight. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/page.aspx?pid=2501 http://mag.audubon.org/articles/birds/how-tell-ravens-crow Kortoso (talk) 01:18, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

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lead should describe crows
A lead should summarize the article and create interest in the topic, see WP:LEAD. The lead talks about carrion crows, hooded crows, ravens, fish crows, and West Nile virus. It should do more to describe the American crow. The lead should be able to stand alone as a concise summary of the topic Jonathan Tweet (talk) 03:27, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

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"CaaW-CaaW-CaaW!"
(I SEE SOMTHING)

The opening paragraph of this article contains the line: "The most usual call is CaaW!-CaaW!-CaaW!."

In the section Description, there is a similar line: "The most usual call is a loud, short, and rapid caaw-caaw-caaw."

I don't know if writing onomatopoeia for bird cries is standard on Wikipedia, but this seems a bit out of place to me. Other birds with distinctive calls, such as the Kookaburra, seem to just have audio files that one can listen to. Should the crow have its call written like this? Wondering Wanderer (talk) 07:19, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi. I agree that it seems strange and unencyclopedic to me too. There is no citation given for the caaw-caaw-caaw, but it seems to have been copied from this website without attribution. The description in the opening paragraph seems to come from this website, again without attribution. I have no idea how reliable those two sources are. Perhaps consider rewording it. From a quick google search, the call has also been described as cawing/cawlike/"caw-caw". Bennv3771 (talk) 09:56, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

unclear sentence in intro
The current revision has a sentence with a strange "because from because from" construction that is very hard to understand.

" They can be distinguished from the common raven (C. corax) because American crows are smaller, from the fish crow (C. ossifragus) because American crows do not hunch and fluff their throat feathers when they call and from the carrion crow (C. corone) by the enunciation of their calls.

Can someone nice clean this up? I would but I cannot figure the original intention behind the sentence. -- Diletante (talk) 22:21, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Murder
A group of crows is called a murder. Drsruli (talk) 09:17, 11 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Why isn't a "murder" of crows shown as the collective plural form of crows? Why hide it? Northernxy (talk) 01:03, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I know, but it ambiguously admissible in the Wiki. Why hide it?  It's such an interesting English term for birds. Northernxy (talk) 01:08, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Article is a mess
This article has been in poor shape for years. I don't think this article still remains as GA. 119.193.102.31 (talk) 10:50, 23 October 2021 (UTC)