By gathering together, crows find safety in numbers. If one crow sees a predator, it will give an assembly call. Every crow within earshot will quickly fly to the source and attack the predator. If a crow has already been attacked, it will give a distress call, summoning other crows to its defense. They got this reputation in part because they're big and loud.
Crows are the victims of a lot of bad press.
Look at how the language treats them. No sign of the red-winged black birds whose presence is usually felt by now. They seem to arrive with the other blackbirds and starlings.'' Yellow-bellied sapsuckers, sometimes the butt of jokes because of their odd name, are often found in and about orchards, drilling holes spirally around the trucks of the trees. They not only drink from the resulting flow of sap, but come back later to eat insects attracted to the fluid. Margaret Millar, in The Birds and the Beasts Were There , tells a wonderful story of an inebriated sapsucker vigorously defending his source against a hopeful oriole.'' Spring birds Speaking of orioles, the Connecticut Rare Bird Alert reports that Baltimore or northern orioles are starting to be seen in the state, returning from wintering in the South.