Thursday, June 22, 2006, 9:42 am
Island crows
KOKOPO, PNG — Crows’ eyes are blue here — blue like the sky through the coconut fronds. Their calls are high and abrupt; their tails and wings are short.
Checklists call them Torresian Crows, but I don’t buy it for a minute. Maybe one day they’ll receive recognition as a full species. This is an ornithological frontier, after all.
I haven’t had much internet access of late. I’m sorry for the long silence; maybe I can fill in the gaps someday.
David J. Ringer
