House Crow - Corvus splendens
This crow has colonised Dubai from India, probably as an escape or introduction. This picture was taken in Safa Park last weekend on a warbler snapping trip.
Crows are incredibly intelligent. They can use tools and solve problems.In "Planet of the Birds" they would be the ruling class.
I am off to India in 6 weeks to Bangalore. I discovered that air fares to India at the beginning of the monsoon are cheap ! I have located a guide called Bopanda online who is going to pick me up from my hotel each day and run me out to find decent pictures of birds. I thought it would be a good warm up for Tanzania in July. I fly in on the Thursday night, spend all day Friday and Saturday on bird safari and fly back on the Sunday. I have Birds of the Indian Sub-Continent sitting on my side and I am all fired up and ready to roll !
House Crow, Corvus splendens
Safa Park, Dubai, UAE
April 2012
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