Stone The Crows

[marval]

I was sitting in the park today watching the birds.

A crow landed, followed soon by another.

They looked around as if hoping that other crows would join them, but none did, so they flew off again.

Next thing I know, I'm in court as a witness to an attempted murder.

[bhg481]

15 hours on and not a single reply to this post. Is it meant to be funny or is it posted in the wrong section?

[daveygh]

Well I thought it was funny

[bhg481]

Can you please explain it to me davey

[scorpiojo]

The collective term is a murder of crows.

[maggiebee]

Very clever marval, took me a few seconds for the penny to drop!

[bhg481]

Ah!

[Togo]

I was waiting for Jackdaw to offer to be a witness.

[scorpiojo]

:)))

[theprof]

The jokes's not been completely appreciated I'm afraid. Crows are known to hold what's called a Crow's Court where a group of them will surround one crow on the ground and put the bird on "trial". Eventually, and sometimes after many hours, the crow will be set free or will have been pecked to death by the group.

I witnessed this phenomenon many years ago in my youth, but some will tell you a Crow's Court is an urban myth or more applicable to other Corvids.

For the Old Timers on here (like me!), I remember this topic being hotly debated in the Old Codgers column in the Daily Mirror. The topic was reprinted in one of their four Little Black Books and I've just re-read it myself.

[Svejk]

It went over our heads, marval.

[Jackdaw33]

Magpies certainly do that, I have seen it.

I was always led to believe that crows, unlike rooks, were solitary. Thus if you saw one rook on its own it was a crow, and if you saw two crows together they were rooks.

[-SharonA-]

Ahh I get it now!!!