These birds are terribly frightening! There laugh sounds unnaturally evil, they eat small dogs, attack Japanese children, and they have a bad habit of stealing things left outside (cell phones, keys, ipods, your dinner, etc). And they are around. All the time!! If there is anything about Japan I dislike, it is the CROWS!They are huge!! I swear, the smallest one stands up to my knee! They are bold too. Most birds fly away when they see you coming. Crows look at you and say "bring it on!" with their eyes. Too scary for me. I don't like them one bit. Imagine if some mad scientist took a wolf, shrunk it down, turned it into a bird, accidentally let it loose, and all the subsequent birds developed a New Yorker's attitude: that is the Japanese Crow.
I tried to imitate an American crow's call and a Japanese crows call for my roommate. She was not too impressed with my bird noises and said that they sounded alike. But I don't remember American crows actually laughing at people the way the Japanese ones do. And when I was in the park, a girl named Olivia and I heard one of the crows repeatedly say "Ohayo", which is a typical greeting in Japan. Scary, scary stuff. I don't trust them in the least.
Fear the Japanese crows. You have been warned.
By the way, I found this rather adorable bird that looked almost like a piper. So cute! But they move very quickly. I'll try to find it again, but now that it is getting cooler and very rainy, I don't if it has migrated or not. We'll see.
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