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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

Last sightings (view all)
2013-06-19
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Two crows have decided to terrorize myself and others outside of our house. They sit on the power lines coming from our house and the house next door, wait for us to come out and swoop us. There is a walkway down the side of the house that they constantly divebomb when an animal or person walks down it. In addition, they follow me in the house, meaning when I go inside they will move to a perch where they can see where I am inside and this continues to each room I enter. Their squaking is incessant and is driving us crazy. Of course, i assume that there must be a nest nearby, but this is the 2nd out of 3 years this has happened and we are at our wits end.
2013-06-16
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There is a young black cat that is possibly stray spending much time in the blackberry bushes across from our house. For some reason, this particular cat is a constant target for crow agression. They are always cawing at this cat and even dive bombing him/her. I have seen this behavior several times over the past couple of weeks.
2013-06-14
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Crow sat on parking lot wall for several minutes and flew away
2013-06-08
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This banded crow has been here before but today I got a better look at the banding. The upper right is white or grey--I've noted white. I believe the upper left is a dark blue. The small lower bands are more like fluorscent orange--I've note red.
2013-06-08
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This banded crow has been here before but today I got a better look at the banding. The upper right is white or grey--I've noted white. I believe the upper left is a dark blue. The small lower bands are more like fluorscent orange--I've note red.
2013-06-04
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The crow was on the railing of my deck eating a peanut. it was only there for a moment. I am 85% certain i have the band coloring correct
2013-04-30
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This crow visits the deck of our office building at 401 2nd Ave S (NW corner of 2nd Ave S and King Street - Court in the Square Building) on a daily basis. Today it is just perching and occasionally preening on the deck restraining wall. It is NOT intimidated by my presence, allowing me to approach within 3 feet without making any show of fear or inclination to fly away.
2013-04-26
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I've seen this crow a few times in the past few weeks, I finally got my binoculars on it today though. This crow has a white streak through it's primaries as well as in the alula area.
2013-04-26
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I've seen this crow a few times in the past few weeks, I finally got my binoculars on it today though. This crow has a white streak through it's primaries as well as in the alula area.
2013-04-10
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Last Tweets (view all)
2013-06-11
jmeowmeow cawed from
Nesting crows versus hummingbirds in my backyard for a few weeks now. Juvenile crow now contributing. Noisy. #seattlecrows
2013-06-11
jmeowmeow cawed from
Nesting crows versus hummingbirds in my backyard for a few weeks now. Juvenile crow now contributing. Noisy. #seattlecrows
2013-06-10
jmeowmeow cawed from
Nesting crows versus hummingbirds in my backyard for a few weeks now. Juvenile crow now contributing. Noisy. #seattlecrows
2013-06-10
jmeowmeow cawed from
Nesting crows versus hummingbirds in my backyard for a few weeks now. Juvenile crow now contributing. Noisy. #seattlecrows
2013-06-09
jmeowmeow cawed from
Nesting crows versus hummingbirds in my backyard for a few weeks now. Juvenile crow now contributing. Noisy. #seattlecrows
2013-06-09
jmeowmeow cawed from
Nesting crows versus hummingbirds in my backyard for a few weeks now. Juvenile crow now contributing. Noisy. #seattlecrows
2013-06-08
jmeowmeow cawed from
Nesting crows versus hummingbirds in my backyard for a few weeks now. Juvenile crow now contributing. Noisy. #seattlecrows
2013-06-08
jmeowmeow cawed from
Nesting crows versus hummingbirds in my backyard for a few weeks now. Juvenile crow now contributing. Noisy. #seattlecrows
2013-06-07
jmeowmeow cawed from
Nesting crows versus hummingbirds in my backyard for a few weeks now. Juvenile crow now contributing. Noisy. #seattlecrows
2013-03-13
mothnflame cawed from
Crow with a blue band on one leg, white on the other, foraging for worms on eastlake ave #seattlecrows
2013-03-13
mothnflame cawed from
Crow with a blue band on one leg, white on the other, foraging for worms on eastlake ave #seattlecrows