Wow - The problem might be that crows can do so many calls and make lot of 
other sounds.
It would take some kind of special "diagnostic" call I imagine - I wonder if 
the fish crow rattle is different enough.

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From: "dan&erika" <danerika@GMAIL.COM>
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Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 9:19 AM
Subject: [mou-net] Fish Crows in Minneapolis????


> Hi All--
>
> Working on my blog, I serendipitously wrote a post today about the Fish
> Crow. ( http://dantallmansbirdblog.blogspot.com ) Come to discover that
> Fish Crows are found up the Mississippi Valley to St. Louis and
> accidentally into southern Ontario!  Fish Crows are moving north. Twice
> this fall I saw or heard odd crows.  One was noticeably small but not
> obviously young.  Another time I heard crows call like a Fish Crow--this
> was in Updown near 47th street or so.  At the time, not knowing that a 
> Fish
> Crow was remotely possible, I wrote the calls off as off-pitch American
> Crows.
>
> No way I am listing these!  But we should be on the alert.  The two 
> species
> are so similar, I am somewhat puzzled as to how one would tell them apart
> here in Minnesota.  I have Fish and American crow calls on the blog.
>
> dan
>
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