If you're a birder, you'll know what a life list is. It's basically a list of all the bird species one has observed and positively ID'd in one's lifetime. This blog is a record of my "critter" life list (mostly of birds), including photos I've taken over the years, some of the actual lifer if I was lucky enough to get the shot. Don't expect National Geographic quality stuff here, just the work of an amateur photog who loves to trudge out into nature.

Friday, July 14, 2017

Corvus frugilegus (Rook)

 6/11/17 Stonehenge, Wiltshire, Salisbury Plain, S. England





   




LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Rook

SPECIES: Corvus frugilegus

FAMILY: Corvidae (Crows, Jays & Magpies)

LIFE LIST DATE: 6/11/2017

LOCATION: Stonehenge, Wiltshire, Salisbury Plain, S. England, UK

From Wikipedia:
Rooks are distinguished from similar members of the crow family by the bare grey-white skin around the base of the adult's bill in front of the eyes. The feathering around the legs also looks shaggier and laxer than the congeneric carrion crow. Their colonial nesting behaviour gave rise to the term rookery. 
Rooks are resident in Great Britain, Ireland and much of north and central Europe but vagrant to Iceland and parts of Scandinavia. 

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