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Dennis atherton


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Cheers Paul. Very interesting.  sounds like it might be based on some facts then.  It would be a great photograph to get smile



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Okay found it, its in a book called A notebook of birds 1907-1980 Jim Flegg

In the Staplehurst area of Kent on 26th December 1973, I noted Carrion Crow hanging upside down from electricity cables.

Brit.Birds,46:378 Brit Birds,42,327 and Brit Birds,57:182-183. Also quotes Rooks, and Hooded crow behaving in the same manner.

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I have seen this somewhere, I think it was a 1973 paper in British birds, will check it out.



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Aye. Sound's batty for sure. It's gotta based on some facts. I've never seen it. Im guessing you neither. Someone will have noticed this if there's any truth in it confuse

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Dennis atherton wrote:

ok here is a funny one, being a birder i always expect new bird books at xmas, this year being no exception i have one with a section on behaviour, it says and i quote

"From time to time Rooks hang upside down, it maybe they find this way more comfortable"

with a sketch of an upside down Rook on a phone line, has anyone actually ever seen this? confuse




Sounds like they have delusions of being Bats.

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ok here is a funny one, being a birder i always expect new bird books at xmas, this year being no exception i have one with a section on behaviour, it says and i quote

"From time to time Rooks hang upside down, it maybe they find this way more comfortable"

with a sketch of an upside down Rook on a phone line, has anyone actually ever seen this? confuse

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