A murder of crows
@allknowing (140324)
India
November 8, 2022 7:49pm CST
They say English is a funny language and I endorse that view. Why else would a group of crows is called a murder of crows. If you know why do share your knowledge here for the myLot community.
Crows gather here when they see one of their species getting caught on the live wires. It happened this morning and I saw not less than twenty crows sobbing - what a cacophony that was.
The photo that you see was clicked some time ago when a similar event happened. I feel sorry for the birds when they perch on wires and they get electrocuted when two cables touch each other
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@allknowing (140324)
• India
9 Nov 22
Now and then this happens here right in front of our gate. There is nothing I can do about it.
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@shaggin (73731)
• United States
9 Nov 22
@allknowing oh that would be so sad to watch and so sad hearing them crying over it
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@allknowing (140324)
• India
9 Nov 22
@shaggi I do not know from where these crows appear as before the accident there are none around We will die without knowing the mystery of nature.
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@allknowing (140324)
• India
9 Nov 22
We still have wires exposed - I think the entire India has that system.
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@allknowing (140324)
• India
9 Nov 22
@LadyDuck Ours gets disconnected too because of the wind sometimes and then we have to call them up but load shedding affects everyone
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@LadyDuck (472447)
• Switzerland
9 Nov 22
@allknowing I have seen also photos posted by users from the Philippines and all their wire are exposed, well also the United States, as soon as the wind blows thousands of people are without electricity there.
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@ptrikha_2 (47341)
• India
9 Nov 22
It can be very sad for the birds to get electrocuted.
I wonder haven't these creatures memorized something about these wires!
And of course "Murder of Crows" sounds hilarious as well as a bit mysterious.
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@ptrikha_2 (47341)
• India
10 Nov 22
@allknowing
Still I wonder if they don't memorize and gather Intelligence of getting the current.
Plus such incidents cannot be prevented by Human intervention unless some special kind of cables come up.
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@allknowing (140324)
• India
9 Nov 22
Probably they perch on safe cables but when they touch each other that is when current passes through.
Yes murder of crows phrase is indeed mysterious (lol)
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@Tampa_girl7 (51252)
• United States
9 Nov 22
I’m really not sure. I’ll need to look it up.
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@allknowing (140324)
• India
10 Nov 22
@Shiva49 Never knew elephants revisited where they have lost their own. Very touching. indeed.
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@Shiva49 (26895)
• Singapore
10 Nov 22
@allknowing Yes, at times. there is a cacophony of cawing that something has gone awfully wrong.
Crows like to invite others too to share the food. They have good bonding that way.
Elephants are also known to stay and revisit the place where they have lost their own as a part of their moaning.
@marguicha (224860)
• Chile
9 Nov 22
I did not know about that way of calling it.
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@allknowing (140324)
• India
9 Nov 22
Now you know. I knew it for quite a while but still do not know why that is so
