At least with its ominous associations, the
American crow reflected a glooming, looming sense of doom.
On 15 August 2014, at 16:25 MDT, PH noticed an
American Crow about 30 m distant that was anting among a group of 5 crows on a grassy athletic practice field on the edge of the University of Montana campus in Missoula, Montana (46[degrees]52'N, 113[degrees]59'W).
A Bonferroni correction was applied to each p value, according to the number of comparisons (corrected p value of 0.05/10 = 0.005 for carrion crow peak viremia and organs of carrion crows euthanized on day 4; corrected p value of 0.05/6 = 0.008 for
American crow peak viremia and organs of carrion crows euthanized due to illness).
The
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) belongs to the Corvidae or crow family, which also includes ravens, jays and magpies.
He then watched his test subjects--first a pair of
American crows, and later five common--ravens attempt to bring home the bacon (in this case, it was actually salami).
I'll bet you a cigar - an expensive cigar, not the cheap ones I usually smoke - that Steve has made more European speeches than any
American Crow.
Slightly smaller than an
American crow, the northern hawk owl (Surnia ulula) is a striking, day hunting owl which constantly searches for prey from a high perch.
To determine susceptibility and immune response, we challenged 7-week-old wood ducks (Aix sponsa) with a 1999
American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) isolate of WNV.
Key words:
American Crow, Common Raven, corvids, effigy, non-lethal, predator management, Snowy Plover
The positive and negative predictive values of pelican WNV-associated deaths for human WNND cases were similar in magnitude to those of
American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) deaths.
Two field studies of the
American crow estimated local losses in New York and Oklahoma last year at 30 percent and 50 percent, respectively.
In New York, an epizootic of
American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) deaths from West Nile virus (WNV) infection occurred during winter 2004-2005, a cold season when mosquitoes are not active.