tokyo crows

photo by yosuke kashiwakura

honorable mention, national geographic photo contest 2013

photo by brian g. kennedy

photo from here and there japan

photo from present simple

photo from here and there japan

photo by susan fleming

the crows that live in tokyo use clothes hangers to make nests. in such a large city, there are few trees, so the natural materials that crows need to make their nests are scarce. as a result, the crows occasionally take hangers from the people who live in apartments nearby, and carefully assemble them into nests.