As Urban habitat spreads it wings and expands it boundaries, so
must man expect to find nature creating it's own niche within
those ever growing cities. One of the most adaptable creatures
in cities are birds, and of those the crow may be the most able
to conform to urban living. Highly intelligent, with
sophisticated social structures, the crow has no problem with
having human neighbors. Ken Roblee is a Senior Wildlife
Biologist for the NY DEC." They're very social, they use
sentinels for warning the flock of approaching predators or
humans, so they do very well because they are intelligent."
Crows and their cousins in the Corvid family, including Ravens
and Jays, are in rare company on an intelligence scale.They are
great mimics and can learn human speech. They are also known
tool users, which puts them alongside only humans and primates
in that regard. Mark Carrara is a Wildlife Biologist for The
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture." Examples of that are where they're
using a stick to dig out insects out of a tree c