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Given the severity of the drought and crop failure in the midwest can we expect any impact on the crow population as a result?

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It won't effect the crow population in Kansas because all our birds come out of Canada during the fall migration. Now where they feed and "if" there is enough feed for there numbers they will stay around, if not then they will move to where they can find enough feed to sustain there numbers. I've had very good shooting in drought years because where you find them you find hordes of them.

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A bit off topic.. but we have had just the opposite here in the upstate of SC with large amounts of rain.. My question is: Does large amounts of rain effect dove population? The birds (dove) we have are local and not "migritory."  



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Mark,

The rain will not bother them near as much as the temps falling will. The turtle doves here in Kansas move south at the first hint of cold weather. Now I have been in other states where the doves were flying around in low 30 degree weather, but the bulk of them pulled outa there!

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Bob,

I wasn't sure about the rain. I know cold will make them "haul feathers" out of an area overnite.. We have the mourning dove here in upstate SC... I heard sometime back from Tomlin that young crows still in the nest were dying due to very cold and wet temps. Maybe he said even drowning...



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You have collard doves too Mark,,,, If you kill several on a hunt look at all of em close when you are breating the birds. You may notice one looks a tad bit larger and lighter in color. Most have a ring around there neck area somewhat like a pigeon. We started killing them 2 or 3 years ago around here. They eat the same tho!!!biggrin



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Yes, we killed several 2 years ago.. 3 of us were standing around and looked up and saw 3 Eurasian dove ( we thought they were piegons) flying towards us and we all three killed one. We had a look at them and immediatly knew what they were.. We have not seen any since. Really strange as I thought we would more..



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It's been dry up here as well. Crows come to water like doves, usually later in the day. A good place to ambush them at times.

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