A Murder of Crows showed an amazing view of the lifestyle of crows, one that most of us never even think about. The main story was about a man in Seattle who tracked a couple of birds from the day they were born. He experimented on the crows. One time he wanted to know if they could memorize faces and categorize them into good and bad. The experiment was succesful: when the men wore the masks the crows cried out squaws of warning and when the masks were off the crows acted completely normal. Also there was a short segment where they showed the amazing brain of a species of crows that live on an island off of New Zeland. These crows can make tools like hooks and use them to get bugs out of tight places. I was suprised. I didn't know crows were such intelligent birds. Every bird that they tagged got shot except one. That one bird survived its adolescent years and is now part of a flock.
The movie was very well made. The people who filmed the crows filmed them for a little over a year, documenting everything they did. The thing that made it interesting for me was that the filmmakers didn't show how only one species of crows acted, but also how different species of crows' brains work. Before I saw this movie I thought that crows were just scavengers, but now I know how smart and evolutionally developed they are.
