How Smart Are Birds

[deanmine]

I used to care for an African Grey... Smart Madafucker...
Smarter than most of the dumber 2 year olds iv met

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Crows and Ravens, Very clever birds.
Sometimes a Sign of luck, it is also associated with the archetype of the trickster; Witches seem to like them too!

[Kanda444]

corvids can remember human faces and pass that information to their young.... some also use quantum mechanics to navigate

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...vigate-113199/

i will give the video a watch tomorrow.

[Kanda444]

they do a lot of crow research at UW... here are a couple of their articles

http://www.washington.edu/news/2012/...uman-like-way/

http://www.washington.edu/alumni/par...104/crows.html

[deanmine]

NOW, i know why i like ya, bro!!

[Kanda444]

Originally Posted by deanmine

NOW, i know why i like ya, bro!!

yeah man... i fuckin love birds my wife and i are amateur bird watchers. we started trying to id and keep track of all the local birds about 5 years ago or so.

not a lot of 'exotic' birds where i live now though. there are some red tailed hawks that live nearby and they come feed in the field that's across the street from my apartment....i watch them hunt everyday pretty much.

im a bit obsessed with avians.

[deanmine]

Originally Posted by Kanda444

im a bit obsessed with avians.

we have only one... well one at any one time .. pair of Orioles... they come n every year... . but what we really keep track of are the diffrent humingbirds that migrate thru.. we only have 1 type that live here year round.. the others strole thru as they go to mexico

[Kanda444]

Originally Posted by deanmine

we have only one... well one at any one time .. pair of Orioles... they come n every year... . but what we really keep track of are the diffrent humingbirds that migrate thru.. we only have 1 type that live here year round.. the others strole thru as they go to mexico

that's awesome! we have a few that visit here...and i have a Rufous Hummingbird skeleton and feathers he got stuck in a greenhouse i was demolishing for a job... found him between the wall, skull and beak still perfect. i'll take a pic with my wife's phone later...

we also have a lot of woodpeckers here, which is pretty fuckin cool... my wife's favorite bird is the Red Shafted Northern Flicker. Gorgeous bird! it's a woodpecker that feeds on the ground....

[deanmine]

if u have itunes.. watch this eposde of .. this american life .. going down in history.... amazing story about bird watching

http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliat.../?id=345712099

[Sharon]

That was amazing, thanks for showing how bright one of my favourite species of birds actually is