Conversation with a Cape Crow

The West Coast N.P in bloom following good spring rains

Late last year I was able to spend two weeks in South Africa, travelling up the west coast where the desert flowers were in bloom following a wet spring season. I did not imagine that one of the highlights of the trip was to be a crow. Here is the background story and the lecture that the star of the show gave me.

This recording recently gained first place in Class 1 (Individual Species) of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society (WSRS) competition for 2023.

For more on WSRS activities and other competition entries see here:

Addo National Park, South Africa.

My conversation companion Cape Crow (Corvus capensis) (photo: Derek Keats, Johannesburg, South Africa via Wikimedia commons)

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