FISH CROWS are well-named for they are clever fishermen and I have watched them hovering over schools of mullet, darting down and seizing the victims with Tern-like skill. They are equally clever in detecting clams hidden in sand, seldom making a mistake in the bivalve's lurking place.
Their small size is constant and together with a higher pitched caw makes identification easy.
NEST: in cedars or pines, a platform of sticks with bark sides lined with bark and grass or (in the south) with Spanish moss.
EGGS: 4–6, smaller but same coloration as those of the Crow.
Atlantic and Gulf coasts of United States. From Hudson River Valley and Long Island, southward.