[CT Birds] Fish Crows

[Roy Harvey]

--- Sharon Abner <sharonorganist at hotmail.com> wrote:

> For the last several years in the summer, I've heard what sounded
> to me like a fish crow on the green in Washington, CT.  Is this
> possible?  Or can an American crow be very nasal?  Maybe one of the
> birders from up here will know what I've heard.

Young American Crows can sound very much like Fish Crows, and the
summer is when that is a problem.  I always hesitate to identify Fish
Cross during the summer, though of course there are just as many (or
few) of them about at that season.

Roy Harvey
Beacon Falls, CT