{"id":6356,"date":"2010-07-11T15:11:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T14:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/?p=6356"},"modified":"2010-09-12T20:52:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T19:52:20","slug":"blinking-crows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2010\/07\/11\/blinking-crows\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinking Crows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question to any crow experts out there.\u00a0 I recently spotted these two standing together, and noticed that they seemed never to blink at the same time – as if consciously taking it in turns.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s easy to tell when a crow blinks by the opaque whiteness of the inner eyelid.\u00a0 This went on for a minute or two.<\/p>\n

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Wink, wink...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Say no more...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, is this some kind of coordinated look-out tactic crows and\/or other birds follow to maximise safety? \u00a0 They were long leisurely blinks, so that might make sense.\u00a0 Or was this a one off behaviour –\u00a0 and I’m making up my own stories?<\/p>\n

The things that preoccupy one on these warm summer evenings…..<\/p>\n

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I found this pic going through my archives; taken in Windsor, UK.\u00a0 Look at the eyes.\u00a0\u00a0 Still a small sample of two.<\/p>\n

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Question to any crow experts out there.\u00a0 I recently spotted these two standing together, and noticed that they seemed never to blink at the same time – as if consciously taking it in turns.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s easy to tell when a crow blinks by the opaque whiteness of the inner eyelid.\u00a0 This went on for a … Continue reading Blinking Crows<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,175,567,9],"tags":[929,930,973,928,972,926,927],"class_list":["post-6356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-biology","category-experiments","category-nature","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-birds","tag-blink","tag-blinking","tag-corvidae","tag-crow","tag-raven"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkpOr-1Ew","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6356"}],"version-history":[{"count":68,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7283,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356\/revisions\/7283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}