The American crow is very susceptible to the West Nile virus, a disease just recently introduced in North America. American crows usually die within one week of acquiring the disease with only very few surviving exposure. Crows are so affected by the disease that their deaths are now serving as an indicator of the West Nile Virus’ activity in an area.

Though humans cannot generally tell individual crows apart, crows have been shown to have the ability to visually recognize individual humans, and to transmit information about "bad" humans by squawking.

wha

didn't realize that crows were gossips....Thanks

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Will do. Any good with auditors???

As in IRS auditors.
No.

fortunately, not IRS.

Thanks for the info....didn't know that.
Back in the early sixties when I was but a wee lad, an old couple that lived behind us in the creek bottoms told us that crows were spirits of long dead Indians. We believed it for many years.

I like the Black Crows, pretty good rock band. They probably carry a few deseases