Group, I found this to be a pretty interesting question. Although I am no expert on crows (or any other bird for that matter), locally we have several roosts. One exists in Middletown, one in Newburgh and one in Poughkeepsie. Whether it is by coincidence or design, there are about 20 mi. between the Middletown roost and Newburgh roost as well as about 20 between Newburgh and Poughkeepsie. I wonder if the answer is, half that distance or 10 mi. I wonder if population density also plays a roll. Comments?
Good Birding, Curt McDermott From: beec...@verizon.net To: NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu Subject: [nysbirds-l] querie Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:45:22 -0500 I am interested in finding out if anyone knows, off hand, what the farthest distance (approx.) a crow will fly to its nightly roost? We have a huge roost on the railroad tracks in Newburgh and would like to have an idea as to the distance in miles the farthest crow will travel to sleep here every night. Claudia Perretti Newburgh, NY _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222986/direct/01/ -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --