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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 7394249" data-attributes="member: 6796661">Well, thanks for sending me down the Google research rabbit hole. There was a thread on this in the Straight Dope message board, but nothing had any citations to reputable research.&nbsp; Still, I like the suggestion of one of the posters&quot; crow feathers have a sheen to them (kind of like looking at a puddle of gasoline), and a crow's eye sees others, not as flat black, but as a rainbow. Apparently each crow appears unique that way. Sorry, no cite, as I said, this is based upon something someone told me.&quot;&nbsp; <a href="https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=241764" target="_blank">https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=241764</a>I love that idea and would certainly consider using it as extra flavor for Kenku or Were-ravens. The more common theory is that they tell each other apart by their distinctive voices. Observant humans can even learn to distinguish crows by their voices. An <a href="https://northernwoodlands.org/outside_story/article/crow-communication" target="_blank">article in Northern Woodlands</a>, interviews Kevin McGowan of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology who has studies crows and their calls for 27 years. More discussion of crows recognizing each other's voices is discussed in this Audobon articles: <a href="http://www.audubon.org/magazine/march-april-2016/meet-bird-brainiacs-american-crow" target="_blank">http://www.audubon.org/magazine/march-april-2016/meet-bird-brainiacs-american-crow</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 7394249, member: 6796661"] Well, thanks for sending me down the Google research rabbit hole. There was a thread on this in the Straight Dope message board, but nothing had any citations to reputable research. Still, I like the suggestion of one of the posters" crow feathers have a sheen to them (kind of like looking at a puddle of gasoline), and a crow's eye sees others, not as flat black, but as a rainbow. Apparently each crow appears unique that way. Sorry, no cite, as I said, this is based upon something someone told me." [url]https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=241764[/url] I love that idea and would certainly consider using it as extra flavor for Kenku or Were-ravens. The more common theory is that they tell each other apart by their distinctive voices. Observant humans can even learn to distinguish crows by their voices. An [URL="https://northernwoodlands.org/outside_story/article/crow-communication"]article in Northern Woodlands[/URL], interviews Kevin McGowan of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology who has studies crows and their calls for 27 years. More discussion of crows recognizing each other's voices is discussed in this Audobon articles: [URL="http://www.audubon.org/magazine/march-april-2016/meet-bird-brainiacs-american-crow"]http://www.audubon.org/magazine/march-april-2016/meet-bird-brainiacs-american-crow[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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