Comments on: Surfing The Roof

By: Kate St. John

Kate St. John — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 01:07:14 +0000

UPDATE, 23 Jan 2012: The original YouTube post became unavailable because of a copyright claim. On 16 Mar 2013 I found it again a at new link.

By: Kate St. John

Kate St. John — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:05:24 +0000

Gintaras, the sound track on the video made me wonder what the people were saying in the background as they watched the sliding crow. Probably nothing significant … but the only word I understood was “Nyet.”

By: Gintaras

Gintaras — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:51 +0000

I’ve seen this video a few days ago…I do speak russian almost as good as my native language – lithuanian, since I’ve lived in former USSR for 30 years…
Russians do have social site http://www.odnoklassniki.ru/#/profile/155539473033;jsessionid=98f71ca897f8768354c8feb0c4fd4abf1b5702ed0764a7ef.c6b2bc6a – equivalent of Classmates or Facebook, just way better.
There, besides you can find former classmates and make new friend, are many groups of Interest.
I just recently found and joined a few groups of bird lovers.
What I’ve learned, some people in Russia do keep crows as a pets, and they post, how friendly and intelligent crows are. Most crows, they keep at home as a pets, are rescued, injured crows – they have found these outside…I’ve read some pretty good stories by owners of crows – how good they interact with other of their pets – cats, dogs…etc.

Peregrine Falcon…In russian it’s called – Сапсан(Sapsan):

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD

High speed train between Moscow and St.Petersburgh(former Leningrad) is named “Сапсан” – Peregrine Falcon

By: Kate St. John

Kate St. John — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:36:28 +0000

Very interesting that the Kremlin has to use falcons. I don’t feel too sorry for the crows. They’re smart enough to know when to get out of the way.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:44:52 +0000

It does look pretty fun.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:38:42 +0000

Having lived there, I can attest that Russian crows are quite startlingly intelligent creatures! Unfortunately they’ve become quite a problem in the Moscow Kremlin, where they’ve been damaging the gilded cupolas on the churches. They seem to be “attracted to the shiny” and scratch the gilding off with their claws as they scrabble around in great numbers. The Kremlin groundskeepers have resorted to falconry to try to control the crow population safely and efficiently. Given how much I love our local peregrines, I’m amazed at the sight of the falcons hunting and yet feel a bit sorry for the crows!

By: Michelle, Colorado Springs, CO

Michelle, Colorado Springs, CO — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:02:47 +0000

This is amazing. It’s the first I have seen this and I love it. And people think crows are just a nuisance. As you can see, they are quite intelligent.

By: sharon Leadbitter

sharon Leadbitter — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:28:33 +0000

Another check mark as to how smart they are!!!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:19:06 +0000

Good Morning, Kate. I saw this on Ellen yesterday and then again on the ABC nightly news. I asked Carol (Rochester falconcam) if one of them could find it and they did. They posted it on their website too. Such a smart crow…I could not stop smiling at this one.