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  1. Dmitri

    Crow with Rainbow Tail

    You are right about Russian vs. Ukrainian. I do not have a Ukrainian dictionary handy and do not know Ukrainian well enough to list names of birds correctly. I would say, two thirds of them would have the same roots as in Russian, with some difference in pronunciation, and the rest would be...
  2. Dmitri

    Female Pine Grosbeak

    Your birds in your Webshots albums are so beautiful and taken care of. Dmitri
  3. Dmitri

    Crow with Rainbow Tail

    Birdman, These are Russian names of birds for you as you asked. I hope you will figure the encoding, Windows Cyrillic. There is a gap before the stressed vowel. Crow Âîð îíà Swallow Ë àñòî÷êà Stork Àèñò Thrush Äðîçä Woodpecker Ä ÿòåë Starling Ñêâîð...
  4. Dmitri

    Crow with Rainbow Tail

    Hi Birdman and everybody, Your Russian is good indeed, I would understand you well if you said this to me. You asked me where I lived in Russia. A couple of different places. I was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, then lived for quite a while in Muckachevo, West Ukraine, then in Moscow and...
  5. Dmitri

    Color Tail Crow

    Here are some things I found browsing on the Web: http://www.acorn-online.com/bird398.htm Banded crow Former Ridgefielder Bill Rossiter, who now lives on Mountain Laurel Lane in Redding, reports "An usually colored crow is part of a five member tribe that frequents Branchville. In flight the...
  6. Dmitri

    Color Tail Crow

    Hi, everybody, Before I am ever to get a photo of the crow, let me show you my Photoshop recollection of its tail in the attachment. It is not overdone, because the real bird’s colors are brighter and more impressive, with that metallic tint I could not reflect. The question is whether a...
  7. Dmitri

    Crow with Rainbow Tail

    Sorry I posted about the same message in two different sections of the Forum. For more of the discussion please see: in News, Views and Reporting Points, Color tail crow. Dmitri
  8. Dmitri

    Color Tail Crow

    Ian, Genetic is what I thought. Just to rule out some other possibilities: are there pet crows that would fly around and return home? And also is it physically possibe to mark the feathers like that? --------------------------- Dmitri
  9. Dmitri

    Color Tail Crow

    The bird could not have dipped its tail in paint, because the tip inch of it all black. Thinking of an artificial source, do you know if somebody for any smart reason could have dyed the tail so that the band appears light yellow on the top side and different bright colors on the buttom? I mean...
  10. Dmitri

    Crow with Rainbow Tail

    Brian, I come from Russia where you see thousands of crows every day, all naturally black. God willing I will get a photo of this remarkable one. I will be carrying my camera in my pocket now. The bird is most likely to live around. Dmitri
  11. Dmitri

    Crow with Rainbow Tail

    Brian, Thank you for your reply and welcoming me to the forum. As to the crow, the rest of the body is black, with maybe a bit of dark gray on the neck. It cannot be a play of light or anything else confusing; the stripe on the tail is very obvious even from a great distance. First time I saw...
  12. Dmitri

    Color Tail Crow

    Hi, Brian and TonyK, Thank you for welcoming me to the forum. As to the crow, the rest of the body is black, with maybe a bit of dark gray on the neck. It cannot be a play of light or anything else confusing; the stripe on the tail is very obvious even from a great distance. First time I saw...
  13. Dmitri

    Crow with Rainbow Tail

    Hi, everybody, There is a unique bird living around my place. Has anyone seen a crow with a brightly colored tail? I saw it today for the second time, first was in summer; and my wife saw it once last fall too. A stripe of about 2 inches wide goes all across the tail, one inch from the tip of...
  14. Dmitri

    Color Tail Crow

    Has anyone seen a crow with brightly colored tail? I saw it today for the second time, first was in summer; and my wife saw it once last fall. A stripe of about 2 inches wide goes all across the tail, one inch from the tip of the tail. The top of the stripe is light yellow, the bottom side of it...
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