Hard to find and out of print books about crows from crows.net.
Scientific literature, children's books, and everything in between, as long as the subject is crows.
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Hot off the Press:
Caw of the Wild: Observations from the Secret World of Crows. by Barb Kirpluk. 2005. iUniverse, Lincoln, NE. 159 pages.
If ever you wondered what it would be like to make friends with your local crows, and just how you would go about gaining their trust, this is the book to read. Caw of the Wild" is an intensely personal journal of what can only be described as the author's love affair with a group of neighborhood crows and her quest both to become friends with them and learn everything possible about their lives, language, and behavior. In the process she faces the problems of identifying individuals among a population who all look very much the same, without even a visible difference between males and females, and of trying to decipher the language, both verbal and non-verbal, of a non-human species. During the course of her observations, she independently discovers some of the key relationships of crows, both within their immediate families and with their neighbors, adding significant details to the work of professional ornithologists.
Caw of the Wild is a book very much worth reading both by those who have yet to discover the incredible world of crow society and those whose more experienced, but dispassionate approach to the study of crows, has perhaps removed them a bit from the sheer joy that one can experience simply from getting to know these intelligent birds as individuals. Highly Recommended.
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The Crow Art Gallery
The Crow Art Gallery contains a variety of images of crows including original artworks, limited edition prints, and recent and historic illustrations. All are for sale and the price listed includes shipping and handling. New art works will be added on a regular basis as we acquire them.
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Fish Crow by John James Audubon. Original, hand colored lithograph from the First Octavo Edition of The Birds of North America. This print was prepared
under Audubon's personal supervision, all other octavo editions were printed after his death. This edition also is the only one where the prints have a plain white background. Later
editions, such as the Second Octavo Edition "Common American Crow" above, have a printed colored background.
Artist Websites:
Nightwing Studio Judith Gebhard Smith's website. Generally contains very lovely
original artworks of crows and ravens.
http://www.nightwingstudio.com/
Nightwing Studio
Recently Published:
Poe the Crow by Jan Devereux with illustrations by Roxy Vanslette. 2004. Lakeview Press, Cambridge, MA. 139 pages.
A delightful novel for children about a girl who finds an egg and Poe, the crow who hatches out of it. Ellie Wooten, the heroine of the book, is a fourth-grader, but both younger and older children (as well as adults) should enjoy the tale of Ellie's crow hating artist father, her mother who sets out to save the school's music program endangered by budget cuts, and a whole host of characters including her school mates, their families, local characters, and even big city art collectors. Highly Recommended! The book is available from the author's website by clicking on the link below.
http://www.PoetheCrow.com
Author Jan Devereux's website about Poe the Crow..
Crows in Our Hands by John Paul Barrett. New from Gaff Press
of Astoria, Oregon. The story of the author's experience with a dozen crows that came under his
and his wife's care during a five year period. 152 pages, profusely illustrated. Each book
hand-bound,
numbered and signed by the author. A unique book, highly recommended, particularly to anyone
who ever wondered just what it would be like to adopt a wild crow. Available from the Gaff Press
website by clicking on the link below. Tell them that crows.net sent you!.
http://gaffpress.com
Gaff Press website.
Books from Amazon.com
The following books are available from Amazon.com.
They concern various aspects of crow life history, legend, and lore. If you order from our site
through one of the links below the Crows.net project will receive a commission on the sale.
Click on a book title to find out more information on that particular work. Don't worry,
you won't be committed to buy anything until you actually place your order.
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directly. Simply come to this page on crows.net, click on any of the book links in this section,
then use the Amazon.com site as you would normally.
The American Crow
and the Common Raven by Lawrence Kilham is an exceptionaly good book, based primarily upon
the author's personal field observations, but also incorporating a great deal of the information
available in the scientific literature at the time of writing.
Bird Brains: The
Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays by Candice Savage is a very good,wide
ranging survey of some of the information available on the subject. The book is filled with
wonderful, full-page Sierra Club photos and is worth purchasing for the pictures alone.
Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys by Candace Savage. A new book by the author of "Bird Brains". Just published October 31st and we haven't obtained a copy yet, but if it is as good as the author's previous work, it will be well worth reading indeed.
"In the Company of Crows and Ravens" by John M. Marzulff, with a forward by Paul Erlich and illustrations by Tony Angell is another new book about crows which we have not yet reviewed. The combination of a well known research scientist and an artist who has produced wonderful illustrations of crows in the past should result in a marvelous book.
Mind of the
Raven by Bernd Heinrich is a detailed exploration of the mental abilities of the common
raven by one of the most readable and scientists/naturalists around anywhere. A completely
fascinating book.
Crows and
Jays by Steve Madge, illustrated by Hilary Burn is an excellent reference work on all the
members of the crow family. The illustrations are also excellent. This is a "must have" book
for those interested in all of the corvids.
Crows!: Strange and Wonderful by Laurence Pringle and illustrated by Bob Marstall is
a great kid's introduction to the fascinating behavior of crows. A picture book format for
ages 4 to 8 with very good illustrations. Probably the best crow book for kids available.
Crows: An Old Rhyme by Heidi Holder is an illustrated version for children of the
old counting rhyme about crows.
Crow by Boria Sax. A very enjoyable survey of the crow and raven in literature,
history, and myth.
Clever Crow by S.D. Schindler (Illustrator), Cynthia C. DeFelice. For ages 3 to 6.
The story of a girl and a trickster crow.
Crows in Our Hands by John Paul Barrett. New from Gaff Press
of Astoria, Oregon. The story of the author's experience with a dozen crows that came under his
and his wife's care during a five year period. 152 pages, profusely illustrated. Each book
hand-bound,
numbered and signed by the author. A unique book, highly recommended, particularly to anyone
who ever wondered just what it would be like to adopt a wild crow.
Ravensong: A Natural And Fabulous History Of Ravens And Crows by Catharine Feher-Elston . In this beautifully illustrated study, Catherine Feher-Elston looks at ravens and crows in the contexts of Native American folklore, history, and science.
If you click on any of the above book links you will arrive at an Amazon.com page which
includes listings of other books about crows and their relatives.
(Since this is an on-going project, this page and others will be updated on a continuing basis.)
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