“How come the doe gets to be the peace symbol? How about the pillow? It has more feather than the dove, and it doesn’t have that dangerous beak.” – Jack Handy
A white-winged dove that watched Pepper and I take a walk this morning. — Photo by Pat Bean
Just Pondering?
Even John James Audubon depicted a crow as looking a little wicked. Don’t you agree.
Why is a crow seen as evil and a dove seen as pure? Who made this decision? As a passionate bird-watcher, I enjoy watching crows as much as doves. Maybe even more, because crows are smarter.
And why is a group of doves called a flight and a group of crows a murder?
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Love your dove. 🙂 I’ve wondered the same thing recently about crows and think they deserve a better name for when they’re flocked together.
I had a group of irreverent friends when I lived in Utah, and when we would get together we could carry on and laugh for hours at a time. One of the women’s teenage sons joked that we were a “Murder of Crows.” We loved it and that became the name for our group.
I’m with you. Give me a member of the corvid family any day to watch. We have a magpie pair, and it’s fascinating to watch them figure out if they will cache or eat, and if it’s cache exactly which part of our lawn should they drill a hole in. Between them and the squirrels, our lawn is like a minefield right now!
I once watched a pair of magpies follow around a scrub jay, and when he left they dug up the peanuts, which I had given him and which he had buried, and then the magpies flew across the street and buried them in a neighbor’s yard. Smart birds I would say.