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Companion.
Soft contact calls between paired adults. Heavily individual and pair-specific; acoustic signatures distinguish couples.
v1 corpus · 4 CC-licensed recordings · AI narration available
AI interpretation · Companion
Companion calls are the language of pairs. Soft, low-volume, traded between mated adults sitting close — they're heavily individual and pair-specific, meaning every long-term couple has a recognizable acoustic signature. Wright-laboratory analyses on dyadic corvid vocalizations across the 2010s and 2020s consistently found pair-specific patterns that survived seasonal changes in habitat and food. Four recordings sit in this cluster in our v1 corpus, including the canonical Wikipedia introduction sample and the USGS reference recording. They're not territorial; they're not mobbing. They're the conversational baseline — the sound of a relationship.
Recordings in this cluster
4 exemplars, real spectrograms, full attribution.
2008-04-26
Corvus brachyrhynchos - es
Companion / contact53 s · 200 Hz – 8 kHzCorvus brachyrhynchos - es.oggAn introduction for the article Corvus brachyrhynchos
2012-11-16
Corvus brachyrhynchos - American Crow XC112829
Companion / contact135 s · 200 Hz – 8 kHzCorvus brachyrhynchos - American Crow XC112829.mp3bird-seen:yes
2012-11-12
Corvus brachyrhynchos - American Crow XC112598
Companion / contact127 s · 200 Hz – 8 kHzCorvus brachyrhynchos - American Crow XC112598.mp3A couple of crows calling from about 10m up in neighboring Cottonwood trees.
2011-01-06
Corvus brachyrhynchos - American Crow XC69128
Companion / contact47 s · 200 Hz – 8 kHzCorvus brachyrhynchos - American Crow XC69128.mp3bird-seen:yes
Behavioral-context probabilities
What happens when this cluster fires.
- Affiliative
- 70%
- Foraging
- 15%
- Parent-Offspring
- 10%
- Other
- 5%
Probabilities are cluster-wide estimates from the behavioral-context classifier in the methods pipeline. Not per-clip — individual recordings sit somewhere within this distribution.
Frequently asked
What people ask about companion.
- What is the companion cluster?
- Soft contact calls between paired adults. Heavily individual and pair-specific; acoustic signatures distinguish couples.
- How many companion recordings does CrowLingo have?
- Crowlingo's v1 corpus contains 4 CC-licensed companion recordings, sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Category: Audio files of Corvus brachyrhynchos).
- How does AI interpret the companion cluster?
- Companion calls are the language of pairs. Soft, low-volume, traded between mated adults sitting close — they're heavily individual and pair-specific, meaning every long-term couple has a recognizable acoustic signature. Wright-laboratory analyses on dyadic corvid vocalizations across the 2010s and 2020s consistently found pair-specific patterns that survived seasonal changes in habitat and food. Four recordings sit in this cluster in our v1 corpus, including the canonical Wikipedia introduction sample and the USGS reference recording. They're not territorial; they're not mobbing. They're the conversational baseline — the sound of a relationship.
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