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Crow icon indicates anecdotal reports or other data crow stories and anecdotes
Ring icon indicates a banded crow; placement of colors identifies unique crows banded crows
Tree icon indicates a nightly roost nighttime crow roosts
Directional arrow indicates flying direction during daily migration morning crow migrations
Directional arrow indicates flying direction during daily migration evening crow migrations
Nest icon indicates a nest crow nests
flickr icon indicates photo flickr photos

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Seattle Crows is now on Flickr! To see your crow pictures here, add them to the Seattle Crow Project Group Pool and make sure to geotag them with the location of the sighting! They'll be automagically added to the site.

@seattlecrows is now on Twitter! Just include the tag #seattlecrows in any twitter post about a crow sighting and it will be automagically updated onto the site.

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Welcome to the Seattle Crow Area Mapping Project!

Have you noticed hundreds of crows streaming through the shadows at dusk, or witnessed a crow harass a bald eagle? Crows are all around us and it seems that everyone has at least one story to tell. If you do too, here is your chance! I've created an interactive website enabling citizen scientists to share their observations of daily migrations, nightly roosts, banded crows, and more, with scientists and each other. The ultimate goals of the project are to involve more people in the process of scientific discovery and explore our cultural fascination with our corvid neighbors. During this process I hope we will build a useful database of crow happenings in the Puget Sound region and beyond. Sightings can be submitted and accessed from a map on the website, via Twitter, or by posting photos to Flickr. Help us collect data on these fascinating birds!

Published in Earthcare Northwest, the official newsletter of Seattle Audubon, site by Eric Collins (rec3141@gmail.com)

This project is sponsored by Prof. John Marzluff in the College of Forestry Resources at the University of Washington

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