Danville crows number in the thousands

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January 24, 2010

STAFF REPORT The Commercial-News Sun Jan 24, 2010, 04:00 AM CST

DANVILLE — Terre Haute, Ind., might have its crow problems, but crows here have not left town.

Mary Jane Easterday, one of the Christmas Day counters with the Middlefork Audubon Society, counted 207,000 crows in the area.

This is up from the last couple of years. The number is building back up after the West Nile Virus disease, she said.

Easterday and Marilyn Campbell, local bird authority and past executive director of the Illinois Audubon Society, said in-stead of congregating in the areas they have in the past, the crows fly over the city, along the river system and settle at night behind Bunge along the creek.

Easterday said the crows also congregate some in Holiday Hills and on South Bowman Avenue along Grape Creek.

“They do move around,” Campbell said.

She said the crows can travel around the countryside for miles during the day.

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