CROWS: A Loving Couple Through My Office Window
Crows make lovely couples, and they are very loving partners, affectionate, caring and humble. The new or mature individuals begin to flirt each other in early November, and the older ones immediately after parenting their young ones which are now adult enough to make their own.
Now the love-sick or the lovelorn individuals begin to invest their time to attract each other through daily dates, and spend many hours in allopreening and sharing food. They make a strong bond like the monogamous birds do.
Through November to March they live together, sit together and sleep together in dense tree foliage roosting on one of the chosen branches of the same tree. Crow is very shy bird when it comes to mating.
The couple hides itself in a secret roosting place where it mates after caressing each other. The breeding season starts from late March to August and in some places it continues from August to December in second spell. Once the couple bond is established it lasts forever.
In Sindh crow cawing at someone's house is taken as the guests would come to pay visit there, while in Sri Lanka the cawing of crow is taken as someone would die.
(Amar Leghari is a Sindhi Novelist, Story Writer and Nature Lover)
Good piece
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