I haven't been completely skeptical because (a) the ones I have heard repeatedly said "unh-anh" and nothing else, (b) I used to hear FCs all the time that I lived along the Pot-o-muck River in N. Virginia so I am pretty familiar with "unh-anh,", (c) we have the very occasional pelican along these stretches of the Tennessee & Clinch (and am I seeing things or are our number of DB cormorants also increasing rapidly?), so accidentals such a fish crow in this same area wouldn't be entirely out of the question; and (d) back in the good ol' days of Valley Bird Net, I was also on the VA and WV Audubon listservers, and some of their quite experienced birders found FCs along the New and other large rivers infrequently but repeatedly. A pleasant mystery. (And a pleasant, if humorous-sounding, call. If my memory serves me from a field trip in the late 90s, Jeff Wilson called them "Virgin Birds" because they're always [petulantly] saying no.) Liz Singley Kingston TN John Devereux Joslin wrote: > There much better fish crow experts than I. I only hear them when I'm at the > beach or within 150 miles of a major body of water. But I can only recall > hearing two calls--the very characteristic "unh-anh" call--which I've never > heard from an Amer. Crow (that I could confirm was an Amer. Crow, that is) and > that very nasal "caw" call. This isn't to say that don't make all those other > weird vocalizations. I've just never heard them. > --Dev Joslin > > Raincrow wrote: > > > Do these juvenile Am crows repeat the same call over and over, as Fish > > crows seem to do, or do they toss in some nasal, "fishy" vocalizations > > along with more characteristic Am-crowy calls? And do fish crows have > > the range of click, frog calls, and mews that Am crows have or do they > > stick to that "unh-anh" call? > > > > Liz Singley > > Kingston TN > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: Re: [TN-Bird] [Fwd: Fish Crow in Roane County?] > > Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:22:58 -0400 > > From: John Devereux Joslin <jdjoslin@xxxxxxxxx> > > To: raincrow@xxxxxxxxxxx > > References: <408DE21C.4A01225C@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Liz, > > Thanks for your thoughts. I'm still on the fence on this one. > > Here's > > what Mike Roedel (our current State Ornithologist) had to say: > > > > Dev, > > I've tracked down fish crow vocalizations in suspect locations on a few > > occasions only to find juvenile American crows guilty of the calls. > > During > > the past three winters in New Mexico, I had as many as 250 crows at one > > time > > coming to my yard in the mornings to feed on chicken scratch. There were > > a > > few of them that had extremely odd vocalizations and were recognizable > > upon > > their return each year. A couple of that bunch were fluent in fish crow. > > Mike > > > > Raincrow wrote: > > > > > Hi Dev > > > I, too, have heard the very occasional Fish crow here in Kingston, perhaps > > > 3-4 in the past 10 years. I used to live in Northern Virginia, where both > > > Fish and Am Crows were as common as starlings, and while the species > > > tended to "keep to themselves," I have seen a single Fish crow > > > associate with Am crows (I don't think I ever saw it the other way > > > around). Maybe this gal/guy is lost and hanging with the most welcoming > > > and familiar crowd s/he could find...? > > > > > > Liz Singley > > > Kingston TN > > > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > > Subject: [TN-Bird] Fish Crow in Roane County? > > > Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 08:04:59 -0400 > > > From: John Devereux Joslin <jdjoslin@xxxxxxxxx> > > > Reply-To: jdjoslin@xxxxxxxxx > > > To: TN-Bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Recently, someone on TN-birds reported a Fish Crow at Kingston Steam > > > Plant (sorry I forget who it was). Over the past three years, I have > > > heard at least once, calls that I thought were Fish Crows in my > > > neighborhood--extremely nasal for a crow. This year I even hear the > > > Unh-uh call, so characteristic of this species. But when I traced the > > > caller down, each time he was with other crows that were giving normal > > > American Crow calls. So I have dismissed this as a crow with an odd > > > voice. > > > Since I live in the same county as Kingston Steam Plant (Roane) and > > > the Unh-uh call is so distinctive, I wonder if I have been remiss in not > > > reporting these birds. DOES anyone know if Fish Crows will associate > > > with American Crows in the same flock? 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