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We have a large crow roost in Jackson, Madison County which forms in th=
e
late fall every year so it will be interesting to see what impact the W=
est
Nile Virus has or will have on the numbers in that roost.

Mark Greene
Trenton, TN


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>This is pretty far off the topic of IBA, but we're experiencing a huge=

crow
>die-off in the north suburbs of Chicago.  We just did a survey and fou=
nd
>virtually all the crows are gone from a 100 square mile area that once=
 had
>many many thousands [SNIP]

Hello everyone. I too am concerned about large crow die-offs. Specifica=
lly,

in my area which is urban Memphis, TN. Let me say that I am not an
experienced bird observer.

I work out at Memphis Int'l Airport and noticed as far back as mid July=

that
there was a paucity of crows. I smoke and must go outside of my buildin=
g at

work. There is a large grass field, about 5 acres, many trees and shrub=
s so

we have a lot of birds such as Mockingbirds, (my favorite) English
Sparrows,
Morning Doves, the occasional Wax Wings, and finches. Sometimes early i=
n
the
morning I have seen night hawks! There is also a pair of small hawks wh=
ich
I
have yet to identify which I see occasionally during the day. There are=
, or

were crows.

To date I have seen no crows in my area of the airport. My girlfriend a=
nd I

walk after work and last Wednesday in a residential area we were walkin=
g
in,
(about 100 yds South of Ridgeway and about the same distance East of
Quince)
we did hear a solitary crow. That's it. We did stop and try to see the =
crow

but there were just to many trees and we were in a residential area and=

couldn't just walk to the sound.

It's very sad not to see the crows, we take them for granted and now th=
ey
have disappeared. I wonder what the implications are with their absence=

from
our biosystem here in Memphis?

I was camping in Arkansas up at the Greers Ferry Dam area during Labor =
Day
weekend and was delighted to hear and then see lots of crows!

Also, I have not detected any losses among other species of birds here =
at
the airport. Sorry, if I am not so scientific, I sought for and found t=
his
List to find out if anyone else in my area of Tenn has noticed the abse=
nce
of crows.

Earle Davidson
Memphis, Tenn.



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