Corvus brachyrhynchos

* American Crow Birds White-tailed Kite

Kite Cam 8

May 13, 2020May 13, 2020 Marty Nicolaus 0 Comments Corvus brachyrhynchos, Elanus leucurus

The last White-tailed Kite chick had left the nest by the time I arrived at the scene on Wednesday morning.

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* American Crow Birds

Crow & Clam

April 5, 2020March 24, 2020 Marty Nicolaus Corvus brachyrhynchos

This American Crow worked the low tide just as if it were a Black Oystercatcher, foraging for shellfish. But when

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* American Crow Birds Red-tailed Hawk

Crows v. Hawk

February 17, 2020February 15, 2020 Marty Nicolaus Buteo jamaicensis, Corvus brachyrhynchos, Phil Rowntree

Photographer Phil Rowntree shot these images of a Red-tailed Hawk, first sitting placidly on a tree, then being chased by

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* American Crow Birds Burrowing Owl

Owl Defies Crows

January 25, 2020January 25, 2020 Marty Nicolaus 2 Comments Athene cunicularia, Corvus brachyrhynchos

As if loose dogs and hawks weren’t enough, the Burrowing Owl in the nature area on the north side of

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* American Crow Birds

Crow and Moon

December 1, 2019November 24, 2019 Marty Nicolaus 0 Comments Corvus brachyrhynchos, Phil Rowntree

Most bird photos have a documentary intent: to show what the creature looks like in its natural habitat, or to

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* American Crow Birds

Something to Crow About

October 9, 2019October 5, 2019 Marty Nicolaus 0 Comments Corvus brachyrhynchos

This American Crow, perched on a faded sign in the northern part of the park, clearly has something to say.

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* American Crow

Crows are Shorebirds Too

October 6, 2018October 1, 2018 Mosey2014 Corvus brachyrhynchos

The intelligent and adaptable American Crow isn’t about to let a feeding opportunity to go waste, especially when there’s other

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American Crow Birds General

Mussel Quarantine Posted

April 2, 2018January 21, 2019 Mosey2014 Corvus brachyrhynchos

I was walking westward on the Virginia Street Extension this morning when a crow dropped something black on the dirt

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* American Avocet American Coot American Crow American White Pelican American Wigeon Belted Kingfisher Birds Black Oystercatcher Black Phoebe Black Turnstone Black-bellied Plover Black-crowned Night Heron Black-necked Stilt Brown Pelican Bufflehead Burrowing Owl Canada Goose Clark's Grebe Common Goldeneye Common Loon Double-crested Cormorant Eared Grebe Eurasian Wigeon Featured Video Forster's Tern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Greater Scaup Greater Yellowlegs Horned Grebe Least Sandpiper Long-billed Curlew Mallard Marbled Godwit Mew Gull Northern Pintail Red-throated Loon Ring-billed Gull Ruddy Duck Snowy Egret Spotted Sandpiper Surf Scoter Turkey Vulture Western Grebe Western Gull Whimbrel White-tailed Kite Willet

North Basin: The Video

February 12, 2018May 20, 2020 Mosey2014 2 Comments Actitis macularius, Aechmophorus clarkii, Aechmophorus occidentalis, Anas acuta, Anas platyrhynchos, Ardea alba, Ardea herodias, Arenaria melanocephala, Athene cunicularia, Aythya marila, Branta canadensis, Bucephala albeola, Bucephala clangula, Calidris minutilla, Cathartes aura, Corvus brachyrhynchos, Egretta thula, Elanus leucurus, Fulica americana, Gavia immer, Gavia stellata, Haematopus bachmani, Himantopus mexicanus, Larus canus, Larus delawarensis, Larus occidentalis, Limosa fedoa, Mareca americana, Mareca penelope, Megaceryle alcyon, Melanitta perspicillata, Numenius americanus, Numenius phaeopus, Nycticorax nycticorax, Oxyura jamaicensis, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, Pelecanus occidentalis, Phalacrocorax auritus, Pluvialis squatarola, Podiceps auritus, Podiceps nigricollis, Recurvirostra americana, Sayornis nigricans, Sterna forsteri, Tringa melanoleuca, Tringa semipalmata

The North Basin is the body of water between Cesar Chavez Park and the Berkeley mainland. When I first started

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* American Crow American Wigeon Berkeley Meadow Birds Black-necked Stilt Canada Goose Common Goldeneye Greater Scaup Mallard Ruddy Duck Western Grebe

By an Early Light

December 19, 2017January 21, 2019 Mosey2014 1 Comment Aechmophorus occidentalis, Anas platyrhynchos, Aythya marila, Branta canadensis, Bucephala clangula, Corvus brachyrhynchos, Himantopus mexicanus, Mareca americana, Oxyura jamaicensis

I was in luck this morning. As I began my walk around eight o’clock, the sun slanted almost flat to

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