Counting crows: Vancouver college maps thousands of attacks

Tool launched in response to dive-bombing birds documents 2,500 attacks since 2016It was a crow fiercely protecting its nest – and repeated complaints of it dive-bombing and swooping – that prompted the idea.“Just about every day someone would come in and say: ‘I got smacked in the back of the head,’ or ‘Mary got smacked in the back of the head,’” said Jim O’Leary, a teacher at Langara College in Vancouver, Canada.Continue reading...

Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 20, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Ashifa Kassam in Toronto Tags: Canada Birds Animals Wildlife Animal behaviour Science Biology Environment Americas World news Source Type: news