[lblovett]

Hi...I am an experienced carver but have my first assignment to carve a crow. Can anyone help me with dimensions while roosting. I can find the wing span and the weight but not the dimensions...Any answers of suggestions will be greatly appreciated...

LL

[Mottles]

Well, geez sounds like an excellent project. How about getting yourself some plasteline at the craft store and experiment creating a crow as a model. You could model your crow in a roosting position. This would tell you visually how it would look--how low you must model the clay for it to look right. You can either model it actually planned size or smaller. All you are after as I understand it is to see the realistic position in roost.
I guess you have done an Online search as you have wing span and weight.
A thought along the modeling line would be to use the clay and model a wing and fold it into a crouched or tucked/relaxed appearance.
Many carvers use non-drying clays (plasteline) to experiment modeling for their woodcarvings.
Almost forgot welcome, I'll keep my eyes open for any crow information for ya.
Kathy