This program is supported in part by a grant from the Haverhill Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
“More Than a Murder: The Winter Crow Roost,” each year in Lawrence, is the topic of a free Haverhill talk by Craig Gibson for Essex County Greenbelt Association.
Gibson founded and leads a group called the Crow Patrol that tracks and documents the roost each year. He speaks Thursday, Feb. 5, from 6-7:30 p.m., at Pinnacle, Harbor Place, third floor, 2 Merrimack St.
According to Greenbelt, the final roost location had been along the south side of the Merrimack River, by the New Balance building complex. However, over the winter of 2017-2018 and 2018-2019, it changed many times. Since October 2020, the roost continued along the Merrimack River from the New Balance building, downriver as far as the Interstate 495 bridge and an area around Lawrence General Hospital. The association added, the size of the winter roost typically grows from an initial group of 2,500 in October to almost 15,000 crows in late January and early February.
Online reservations are required here.
The following Sunday, Feb. 8, from about 5-7 p.m., there will be a visit to the, as-yet, unknown roost site in Lawrence with Gibson. Separate reservations are required here.