Crows Everywhere!

Bay Curious

KQED

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Crows seem to be everywhere these days, noticed listener Kevin Branch. He asked Bay Curious: "Why are there so many? Are crows replacing other familiar birds, such as mockingbirds, blue jays and red-winged blackbirds? Is there a plan to reduce crow populations?" KQED's Dan Brekke takes us on a journey to find those answers in this updated episode which first ran in 2019. Additional Reading: Crows Are Crowding Your Bay Area Skies. Why? Read a transcript of this episode Take our audience survey Sign up for our newsletter Enter our Sierra Nevada Brewing Company monthly trivia contest Your support makes KQED podcasts possible. You can show your love by going to https://kqed.org/donate/podcasts This story was reported by Dan Brekke. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Amanda Font, Christopher Beale and Katie McMurran. Additional support from Cesar Saldana, Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Jasmine Garnett, Carly Severn, Jenny Pritchett and Holly Kernan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	From K-QEDE.
0:10.0	Chances are good, that is a familiar sound. Those would be Corvus braki rinkus aka
0:16.7	crows are often unwanted urban neighbors. Crows are thought to be loud, he'sque, aggressive, even sinister.
0:27.0	And they're the subject of a question we got from San Mateo listener Kevin Branch.
0:32.0	There are so many crows around nowadays.
0:34.8	Are they pushing out the old normal birds
0:38.9	that I grew up with, the blue jays the mocking birds the red-wing black birds the birds I used to grow up
0:50.0	listening to
0:55.0	the Bay Curious
1:00.0	the Bay Curious. I'm Olivia Alan Price,
0:58.0	you're listening to the Bay Curious Podcast.
1:00.0	Today, we're bringing back an episode that we first aired in 2019 about the Rise of the Crow.
1:07.0	We'll answer Kevin's question and explain why crows have lots Fans, too.
1:20.0	Support for Bay Curious is brought to you by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, still family owned, operated, and argued over.
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1:27.1	and taste how trailblazing runs in the family.
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1:32.0	to find your new favorite beer today.
1:35.0	Okay, so Kevin has a few questions for us.
1:39.0	Are there more crows? Are they pushing out other birds?
1:42.0	And is there a plan to reduce their populations?
1:47.0	We asked KQEDs Dan Brecky, who has a fascination with just about everything, including the
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