AMERICAN CROW
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They are gregarious birds except in mating season, when they pair off and go in search of pine trees to raise a family. The selected tree is usually fifty to seventy-five feet tall. Material used in the well-constructed nest consists of sticks, twigs, heavy roots and similar objects. Four to eight eggs are laid that are greenish in color with brown or olive-gray splotches.

The crow has a bad reputation and certainly is deserving of many charges leveled at it. Unquestionably, it pulls up young grain; the black rascal will also dig into cantaloupes or watermelons and will kill and eat baby chicks and bird eggs. On the right side of the ledger can be counted many harmful insects, grasshoppers, and cutworms which it destroys thus preventing much havoc to crops.