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Territorial caw.
Long-duration caws emitted from a perch, often paired and faced outward across a territory boundary. Carries caller identity, sex, and approximate intent.
v1 corpus · 3 CC-licensed recordings · AI narration available
AI interpretation · Territorial caw
When a crow climbs to a high perch and aims a long, rolling caw outward across the property line, it isn't just making noise — it's announcing itself. The territorial caw carries the caller's identity, sex, and a rough read on intent, packed into a few hundred milliseconds. John Marzluff's Seattle work in the 2000s showed individual neighborhood crows could be identified by ear by humans within months. The AI now does it in microseconds. Three recordings sit in this cluster: a single bird, perched in pines or cottonwoods, broadcasting. The acoustic profile is one of declaration — long durations, regular spacing, low spectral roughness — not panic.
Recordings in this cluster
3 exemplars, real spectrograms, full attribution.
Unknown da
Corvus brachyrhynchos call
Territorial caw8 s · 200 Hz – 8 kHzCorvus brachyrhynchos call.oggCall of Corvus brachyrhynchos (American Crow)
2004
American Crow
Territorial caw20 s · 200 Hz – 8 kHzAmerican Crow.oggTypical American Crow call. Recorded with parabolic mike.
2020-02-05
American crow in spring
Territorial caw13 s · 200 Hz – 8 kHzAmerican crow in spring.oggRecorded in Southern California
Behavioral-context probabilities
What happens when this cluster fires.
- Territorial
- 72%
- Alarm
- 12%
- Affiliative
- 10%
- Foraging
- 6%
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 territorial caw.
- What is the territorial caw cluster?
- Long-duration caws emitted from a perch, often paired and faced outward across a territory boundary. Carries caller identity, sex, and approximate intent.
- How many territorial caw recordings does CrowLingo have?
- Crowlingo's v1 corpus contains 3 CC-licensed territorial caw recordings, sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Category: Audio files of Corvus brachyrhynchos).
- How does AI interpret the territorial caw cluster?
- When a crow climbs to a high perch and aims a long, rolling caw outward across the property line, it isn't just making noise — it's announcing itself. The territorial caw carries the caller's identity, sex, and a rough read on intent, packed into a few hundred milliseconds. John Marzluff's Seattle work in the 2000s showed individual neighborhood crows could be identified by ear by humans within months. The AI now does it in microseconds. Three recordings sit in this cluster: a single bird, perched in pines or cottonwoods, broadcasting. The acoustic profile is one of declaration — long durations, regular spacing, low spectral roughness — not panic.
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