<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Corvus on Polypompholyx</title><link>https://polypompholyx.github.io/tag/corvus/</link><description>Recent content in Corvus on Polypompholyx</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-GB</language><copyright>Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY-SA-3.0 licence, Steve Cook</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:02:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://polypompholyx.github.io/tag/corvus/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Organism of the week #19 – Bird-brained humans</title><link>https://polypompholyx.github.io/2014/01/organism-of-the-week-19/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:01:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://polypompholyx.github.io/2014/01/organism-of-the-week-19/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Most people who want to attract birds to their gardens put out bird-seed, or - if they&amp;rsquo;re really adventurous - mealworms. However, on the East London dockside where I lived until recently, one of the residents strewed the quayside with livers in December last year. Was this was a deliberate ploy to attract carrion crows for bird-on-variety-meat action? I don&amp;rsquo;t know, but whether or not this was the intention, it was certainly the result.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>