naveen 🔻

Anyone who puts crows with pigeons and considers it the worst of the avian world, doesn't know an iota about how nature works. On any given day, the crows supercedes pigeons in environmental utility. Pigeons are environmental minimalists, offering little functional diversity, while crows are sanitation workers of nature. Pigeons in India are heavily subsidized by humans for its survival, as a seed eater, while the crows clean up carcasses of dead animals, thrive on clearing rodents, insects, and other small animals due to their omnivorous nature. Crows are highly sensitive, intelligent, and adaptable birds, making them excellent, proactive indicators of environmental health. Crows are known to abandon cities and places where air pollution levels reach dangerous levels of toxicity. Due to their ability to eat anything and everything possible, mass deaths of crows in an area are indicators of underlying spread of diseases. Due to their resilience, departure of crows from an area is used as an indicator of environmental degradation, indicating disturbed ecosystem. Plus, due to their opportunistic feeding pattern, a sudden increase in their population in the area indicates a large amount of solid waste is poorly managed and could give rise to unhygienic conditions in the later period.