by Savannah Telfer | Jul 22, 2021 | American Crows, Breeding, Corvids, Education, PSA, Rehab Birds
This summer has thrown its fair share of curveballs here at Diva Crows. First with the mysterious bird disease that has plagued the birds in and around the D.C. area. The birds showed signs of neurological defects and crusty eyes. We also found that the illness was...
by Savannah Telfer | Jun 23, 2021 | American Crows, Corvids, Education, PSA, Rehab Birds, Songbirds, Zen
Staff Wearing Crow Masks to Prevent Imprinting In our most recent post we discussed bird-napping, which harms young birds by taking them away from their parents and making it hard for them to develop survival skills. This week we want to talk about...
by Savannah Telfer | Jun 11, 2021 | Chicks, Education, PSA, Rehab Birds
Bird-Napped Robin we Recently Released It’s baby season for birds, which means millions of birds are hatching and finding their place in the world. Young fledgling birds are making their first appearance outside of their nest at this time, so bird-nappings...
by divacrows | Jun 28, 2020 | PSA
As faithful readers know, every year at this time I post a rant about people who “help” by picking up fledgling birds who are on the ground and bringing them to me because “the bird can’t fly.” This is the equivalent of taking a baby from...
by divacrows | Jun 15, 2019 | PSA
It’s time, people. Baby season is in full swing and residents of Northern Virginia are swiping baby birds left and right. Here is a typical conversation I have with “helpful” members of the public: Cell phone: ring, ring Me: hello Caller: Is this the mumble, mumble...
by divacrows | Aug 18, 2018 | American Crows, Chicks, Corvids, Ginny, PSA
In Memoriam Magellan, aka Quentin I’m back. Sorry for the long period between posts but it has been a tough month or so in the world of Diva Crows. The first blow was the unexpected death of Gwen and Stephen’s chick Magellan a week after he went off to be...
