Do you have a favourite bird?

Ha!
:)

Ha! I believe yo would love fried chicken,
but I'm also pretty sure that you love birds. How about the Red Cardinal?

We have them in the neighborhood. I can mimic one of their calls and sometimes I think we are talking. I watch birds from our front porch and try to observe something new each day.

I love crows for their intelligence, and because they have a language of sorts, forty different calls, each with a different meaning.

Yeah!
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I know they are very intelligent. Didn't know so much about their calls.

I admit - - a big reason I like them is for what I see as their sense of self-confidence, too. Like how long they stay eating a dead carcass on the road, even as I drive toward them in my car. They fly away only at the very last second, with a glance at me, as if they were saying, "Hey -- can't you see I was eating?"

:)

Konrad Lorenz was one of the first animal psychologists to raise crows (jackdaws in Austria) and write about his observations of their refined systems of social interactions. He wrote about these in his zoological book, King Solomon's Ring (English ed. 1952).
I'm sure you could find a 2nd hand copy. I love his style of writing.

I bet I'd enjoy that book.
:)

I once knew one who spoke English! He'd been taught several words and phrases, like a parrot!

I've never heard of a crow talking human language, but then I've never met one reared in captivity.
They certainly have the vocal range to make it possible and they are very intelligent.

I did once meet a tame Indian Minor Bird, in Malaysia. It would talk in English and say things like, Hello, how are you? ANd then respond appropriately to the answer! Amazing!

This post was edited by inky at July 9, 2020 9:15 PM MDT

I'm not sure what the story was about the talking crow I knew. I'd like to think that he was rescued, but I really don't know. He was certainly seemed to be loved and taken care of. 

While I believe wild things should remain wild, I do think that birds like you mentioned can be great ambassadors; teaching humans how wonderful and intelligent other species are. 

Yes.
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  Et tu, Brutus?

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Just preemptively anticipating the standard ad nauseam reaction.

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