Re: [nysbirds-l] querie crow roosts

2009-12-18 Thread Kevin McGowan
The distance crows will fly to a roost depends on a number of things: topography of the landscape, land cover makeup, type and size of roost (large and central or small and local), time of year, and who the roost members are (local or migrants). For a given roost location, each year may be

RE: [nysbirds-l] querie

2009-12-17 Thread Curt McDermott
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

RE: [nysbirds-l] querie

2009-12-17 Thread Curt McDermott
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