City of Crows:
Information and Resources
The Crows of Cayuga County-Nuisance or Character?
This is an article on the website of the Cayuga County Office of Tourism, about the crows of Auburn.
A short video of Auburn crows- just a small fraction of them! Taken by Craig Gibson, whose group and website is focussed on another Winter Crow Roost in Lawrence, MA.
A three-minute video from 2016 by Kevin Rivoli for Auburn's newspaper, The Citizen showing the efforts undertaken by the city to manage the crows by hazing them out of the more populated parts of town. Great footage of the the crow-filled evening sky.
An article from Syracuse.com illustrates why learning to live with the crows may be the only option!
1949: The time folks tried to blow up thousands of crows...
"...Sportsmen, under the supervision of the state police and the Conversation (sic) Department, would literally blow up 1,000 acres of Montezuma muckland, using 500 shrapnel bombs. Each bomb would contain a half stick of dynamite surrounded by shards of shrapnel. In total the plan called for four cases of dynamite, a half-ton of shrapnel and 3,000 feet of primer."
"But the plan ignored one thing: crows are smart."
A 1999 article in Christian Science Monitor with some interesting information on crow's nesting habits, social structure, and more.
Get to know the surprising crow.
"...Through studying these birds, crow expert Kevin McGowan has found that we don't know very much about crows. It turns out they are smarter and more complicated than we imagined."
A 2010 article from Cornell Lab about observing the surprising family customs and nesting habits of crows.
The Young and the Restless: Watching Neighborhood Crows
"Sometimes these kids stay with their parents for more than five years. In addition to the nuclear family, crow groups sometimes include extended family members such as nephews, brothers, and half-brothers of the mom and dad. We’ve also seen crows “adopt” the kids of unrelated neighbors."
An older, but still informative web page from Dr. Kevin J. McGowan, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Lots of things to know about crows.