Crow with a Yorkshire accent

[Khizz]

Parrots are not the only birds able to mimic! This crow in Knaresborough, England has picked up a Yorkshire accent! I think @Ripshod in particular will get a kick out of this!

 

[Ripshod]

 

[Zara]

That´s brilliant!

 

[jh81]

Wunderbar!

 

[Khizz]

Apparently he stands at the entrance to Knaresborough castle and greets visitors like this

 

[SandraK]

Is it a crow or a magpie? I thought the magpies were black and white. He's cute no matter which one he/she is.

 

[Dorcas George]

Is it a crow or a magpie? I thought the magpies were black and white. He's cute no matter which one he/she is.

I think it is a magpie!

 

[Khizz]

Is it a crow or a magpie? I thought the magpies were black and white. He's cute no matter which one he/she is.

I think it is a magpie!

I just looked it up because all the news outlets are saying 'crow'.

Apparently its an African Pied Crow! There is a really interesting article about the woman who trains the crows, she is Her Majesty's Keeper of Ravens at the castle. As there is no consistent difference between crows and ravens she refers to them as ravens.

This woman has several crows, and apparently one of them has an ASBO (antisocial behaviour order)

 

[Khizz]

"One of the ravens, Izabella, is "well known to police sergeant Andy Graham", Skelton tells i. "She feigns injury by lying down in the grass, and as people go to check to see if she's okay, squawks 'what the **** you looking at?' before flying off with their cameras and leaving them on the roof."

Izabella was slapped with an ASBO in 2015."

(edited out her bad language)

 

[Hankmacaw]

Oh my goodness - Ravens and crows are quite different. Here is how they are different.

Common Raven and American Crow Identification - NatureMapping

Learn how to identify ravens and crows.

naturemappingfoundation.org

 

[Sodapop&Co.]

Amazing. That's just incredible!

 

[Birdie Mama]

We have tons of them here, and huge difference in size! We also have lots of magpies, which is my book are just crows with tuxedos on.

They are just as mischievous as crows and do not leave anything shiny laying around when any of the 3 species are around. THEY LOVE BLING!! They will take off with it before you have a chance to blink! And I don’t know about you but they fly faster than I can run, so it’s bye bye bling!!

ps a bird store in Vancouver where we used to get our supplies had beautiful parrots and every one of them said HELLO in a Korean accent. Grandma looked after the birds and talked and played with them all day long.

 

[Khizz]

Oh my goodness - Ravens and crows are quite different. Here is how they are different.

Common Raven and American Crow Identification - NatureMapping

Learn how to identify ravens and crows.

naturemappingfoundation.org

After some research, it appears the African Pied Crow is quite interesting:

"This handsome bird is an adult African pied crow, Corvus albus, a corvid that is actually a crow-sized raven."

"Structurally, the pied crow is better thought of as a small crow-sized raven, especially as it can hybridise with the Somali crow (dwarf raven) where their ranges meet in the Horn of Africa. Its behaviour, though, is more typical of the Eurasian carrion crows, and it may be a modern link (along with the Somali crow) between the Eurasian crows and the common raven."

That's from this link and Wikipedia, but to be honest I don't seem to find much beyond those two. Most likely as "Keeper of the Ravens" calling this guy a Raven fits better with her role!

 

[Khizz]

 

[camelotshadow]

They keep the raven in the royal grounds & have for a long time...So whatever they have they have been breeding them.

Looks like the ones we have in Australia...

I love crows...have not seen many ravens & we have them in Australia by my parents with white

 

[Monica]

That particular species has occasionally debuted in commercials! And yup! Crows!

 

[faislaq]

That particular species has occasionally debuted in commercials! And yup! Crows!

I loved that commercial & was just thinking of it.

 

[Leih]

That's great! I saw a video of some kind of parrot and it lived in Australia so it had an Australian accent when it spoke English, which duh, of course it did, but until then I never thought about a bird adopting the accent of their human. Also, I have 3 tattoos of ravens and several photographs on my walls of ravens so I guess you can say I really like corvids they're supposed to be awful to keep as pets because they get in to everything and are little trouble makers hahaha but I can happily admire their gorgeous jet blackness from afar.

 

[SandraK]

I just looked it up because all the news outlets are saying 'crow'.

Apparently its an African Pied Crow! There is a really interesting article about the woman who trains the crows, she is Her Majesty's Keeper of Ravens at the castle. As there is no consistent difference between crows and ravens she refers to them as ravens.

This woman has several crows, and apparently one of them has an ASBO (antisocial behaviour order)

"One of the ravens, Izabella, is "well known to police sergeant Andy Graham", Skelton tells i. "She feigns injury by lying down in the grass, and as people go to check to see if she's okay, squawks 'what the **** you looking at?' before flying off with their cameras and leaving them on the roof."

Izabella was slapped with an ASBO in 2015."

(edited out her bad language)

They keep the raven in the royal grounds & have for a long time...So whatever they have they have been breeding them.

Looks like the ones we have in Australia...

I love crows...have not seen many ravens & we have them in Australia by my parents with white

The ravens in the Tower of London are kept on purpose - I believe legend says that when there are no longer any ravens the Tower will fall. The ravens

Rats! I wish I'd known about ASBO when I was still working - it would be a great reason to tell certain idiotic coworkers what you think and then claim ASBO.

 

[camelotshadow]