My beautiful avian guests are always recognizable, but I failed to identify my new stunning guest. Can you please?
The mesmerizing avian world
When I see a bird flying:
Oh! Lovely bird, when you soar high stretching your majestic wings knowing your destination, an open canopy You teach me a great lesson Look up and Aim High I wonder; why can’t I have wings to fly
Jumping and running eagerly, my five years old grandson-Ale accompanied me to the nearby park. Watching all sorts of birds and insects living in the greenery is a joyous time for him.
He spotted a few masticating crows sitting under a tree; “Look at the beautiful crows; they are black”, exclaimed Ale. So we stopped to look at them.
This comment provoked my thought, why do some people find a crow beautiful and some ugly?
Every life on this earth has a purpose, and life is equally precious for everyone.
It is true; I never felt a crow, a beautiful bird, and never made its photo. However, I felt sad after hearing Ale’s remark that a black crow, too, is gorgeous and decided to snap soon.
It was a heavily cloudy morning. The previous night had witnessed a powerful storm and heavy downpouring. I was sitting with my hot cup of Tea on the balcony and reading messages and news while sipping the hot Tea.
Suddenly, I saw a crow on the tree on our premises. Perhaps, it was picking nuts/seeds. I took out my mobile and grabbed a few videos and snaps till it flew away.
I settled to my chair. After my Rea, I opened the video. I looked several times at different angles. Finally, I was right; The bird was not an ordinary crow; it had white fur on the top of its neck and swung to the gentle breeze.
I looked to the internet and bird sites to identify white fur on the neck, but no bird showed the fur as my guest had.
It also provoked a thought; is it an experimental bird? Have some researchers tagged with white fur?
However, my wild guess didn’t convince me after seeing 2–3 white furs in addition to the large swaying in the wind.
I failed to label my extraordinary guest.
The nearest specie I could find is White-necked Raven.
According to Wikipedia, Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers. In colloquial English, they are known as the crow family or, in jargon, corvids. Currently, 133 species are included in this family. The genus Corvus, including the jackdaws, crows, rooks, and ravens, makes up over a third of the entire family. Corvids are the largest passerines.
Corvids display remarkable intelligence for animals of their size and are among the most intelligent birds thus far studied.
Specifically, members of the Corvids family have demonstrated self-awareness in mirror tests (European magpies) and tool-making ability (e.g. crows and rooks), skills which until recently were thought to be possessed only by humans and a few other higher mammals.
Their total brain-to-body mass ratio is equal to that of non-human great apes and cetaceans and slightly lower than that of humans.
WOW, intelligent Corvids!
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A vital message to humans from bird’s humble life:
A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking because its trust is not in the strength of the branch but in the strength of its wings.
Develop your strength and believe in yourself- Author unknown
Having said this about my unusual guest, I can’t identify it. Can you please?
We should be happy to be surrounded by nature’s great gifts. Tara Desai
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A small video clip of my guest for ease of identification. It is not so good but enough to identify the bird. Its reaction to “Caw” from another crow shows it belongs crow’s family.
My special thanks to the authors of their wonderful articles
