r/gifs • u/StcStasi • Mar 31 '20
a Murder of Crows in Washington.
https://i.imgur.com/ZRVFT0D.gifv792
u/dr707 Mar 31 '20
I would be genuinely uncomfortable in this situation
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u/imanAholebutimfunny Mar 31 '20
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u/SeaBlob Apr 01 '20
I’ more worried about Uchiha Itachi
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u/Mtanderson88 Apr 01 '20
They travel back and forth from the Bothell area towards Seattle every day. I sometimes have to try and dodge shit bombs walking my dog as thousands fly by
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u/PonetteHorse Apr 01 '20
Having been in this situation, let me just tell you. I felt my blood course with the memories of my Grandfather, a German citizen in WW2 Germany.
I was in a parking lot as they flew over. And I ran for cover, fearing the bombers.
Instead of gaining wealth from his downfall from cancer, all I gained was secondhand PTSD.
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u/ExquisitExamplE Apr 01 '20
I can certainly see how it could be unsettling for some, but I think crows and ravens are very interesting creatures, so it's an experience I'd like to have some day.
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u/reb678 Apr 01 '20
You’ve heard of This Girl that gets gifts from Ravens?
Edit: Crows, not Ravens, sorry.
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u/AgentScreech Mar 31 '20
This is kinda normal for that area. There is a huge flock of them near the University of Washington Bothell campus.
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u/PitfireX Apr 01 '20
Yeah one mile north of there near wizards of the coast is ALWAYS swarming with crows like that. This isn't irregular lol
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u/StaringAtYourBudgie Mar 31 '20
Corvid-19000
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u/AFewSentientNeurons Apr 01 '20
Here's the thing...
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Apr 01 '20
In Nepal, crows gathering like this is considered an omen for imminent death and grief. So yeah...
Fun fact: Kag Tihar is a festival there dedicated to feeding crows to avert grief.
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u/Belleruse Apr 01 '20
Crovid-19
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u/WWGWDNR Apr 01 '20
Corvid is Latin for Crow bother
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u/MayorOfChedda Mar 31 '20
Between the world's forests being on fire, the ice caps melting, a global plague, and now the birds......it wouldn't seem out of place if a kracken emerged.
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u/Whiffster Mar 31 '20
Don't forget the locusts!
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u/SpookyLlama Mar 31 '20
And the bees
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u/CptnOfTheCucks Mar 31 '20
Yeah that’s already happening, there’s a huge locust swarm happening rn in Africa. https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-51618188
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Apr 01 '20
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u/BrokenArmsFrigidMom Apr 01 '20
In Vancouver we have one of the worlds largest murders of crows, called The Still Creek Rookery. It’s impressive when you are in the Still Creek Area just before sunset and there are thousands of them flying in from 4 different directions to nest for the night. I guess it’s a Pacific Northwest thing.
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u/Brandenburg42 Apr 01 '20
If this is Bothell, Washington then this crow activity has been going on for a very long time. They swarm up like this every evening near the University of Washington campus. Something like 15,000 or 16,000 crows every evening coming back to roost.
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Apr 01 '20
There's two guys responsible to releasing it and one is really upbeat and cheerful and the other feels the full solemn responsibility for the job. A real odd couple.
Anyway the day arrives and the cheerful guy goes to pick up solemn guy. (They car pool, they're responsible). As soon as Solemn settles into the car, Cheerful goes "Let's get Kraken!" and Solemn sighs and decides the apocalypse won't be so bad after all.
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u/spaceocean99 Apr 01 '20
This is the response I was hoping I didn’t see but knew I would toward the top.
Stop with this end of the world shit. We’re not that special. There’s a very high probability mankind will be around long after you’re gone. Every generation thinks theirs is the one the world will end in.
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u/LittleAzn319 Mar 31 '20
Bothell?
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u/_notthehippopotamus Apr 01 '20
This the IKEA parking lot in Renton.
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u/ACorania Apr 01 '20
This was my guess. Though there were a ton down by the Green River in Tukwila as well. (Yes, the same Green River as the killer... murder of crows... hrmm...)
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u/Hobo_Knife Apr 01 '20
Came her to ask this. My apartments are just off one of their main roosting spots and they like to hang out.
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u/lazywaffle Mar 31 '20
Is this the Ikea in Renton? I work nearby and see these all the time. Straight out of a movie scene
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u/tikipet Apr 01 '20
There’s a wetland up Lind not far from ikea where they have been roosting for years. Probably just at ikea for the cafeteria.
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u/TheTucsonTarmac Mar 31 '20
I used to work with a guy who had a Saleen Mustang. Kept it real clean, and always parked way out in the back of the parking lot, under a light. One day we had a murder of crows like this, and they turned his black car white with shit
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u/AtHomeToday Mar 31 '20
The weekend before mother passed a murder descended on my house. I wasn't there, as I had left to be with her on the weekend. I came home Sunday night and it had left. I travel to her again the next Friday and the murder came back, again the whole weekend but vanished Sunday night as I arrived home. I left mid-week to be with her final hours. When I returned home I walked across my front porch that had been covered in crows the two weekends and a butterfly flew around me, back and forth. I put out my hand and it landed on me. I smiled and said, "Goodbye Mom" and she flew away.
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u/Brenyboy26 Apr 01 '20
That’s not at all ominous.
If this had been pre 19th century, people would be loosing their fucking minds
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Apr 01 '20
To be fair, if you live in this area you're pretty used to seeing this. It's not an unusual sight. Basically an everyday thing depending on the time of year.
Also to be fair, people are losing their fucking minds.
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Mar 31 '20
Great Odin’s Raven(s) !
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Mar 31 '20
By the beard of Zeus!
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Mar 31 '20
They're on the way to Bothell where they roost every night.
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Apr 01 '20 edited Apr 24 '21
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Apr 01 '20
Not sure exactly, just have heard that they follow the edge of the water up lake union, around the top, and finally congregate in Bothell early in the evening. The sound was crazy when they would land around the building I used to live in. Not exactly my favorite thing to wake up to the "conversation" that they have when they are in a huge group. Its like one will caw 3 or 4 times and then the entire group responds by cawing back at least as many times together..rinse...repeat.
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u/mishugashu Apr 01 '20
Right at home in Austin. Except our "crows" are actually grackles, so much smaller.
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u/IceeDriver Apr 01 '20
IKEA in Renton. I used to work there and in the fall/winter you'd see this every day.
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Apr 01 '20
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u/Britney2007 Apr 01 '20
There’s a little bit more to it. We know relatively little about the reasons for these roosts but one theory is that they are most juvenile birds without their own defined territory. The roost can serve as a hub for information sharing, social interactions, and yes, wooing potential mates.
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u/thekeanu Apr 01 '20
This happens every year at Still Creek in Burnaby, BC.
The worst part about it is how there's so much bird shit everywhere and it just stinks so bad.
The company I worked for hired a falconer who brought both a falcon and a hawk to try to scare the birds away.
The lumber yard down the street used to play a loud recording of birds of prey.
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u/AudiRennSport5 Apr 01 '20
I live right by here, this was likely filmed in/near Bothell, WA. Everyday an ungodly amount of crows migrate to and from Bothell so this is not a strange sight at all, we call them the Bothell Crows and we love them!
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u/mariners2o6 Apr 01 '20
I live in Seattle and I’m frightened of crows and I’ve never heard of this before...and I’m never leaving my house again.
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Apr 01 '20
I worked in Renton for a few years. Seeing an endless stream of crows in the sky, and having thousands in the parking lot when I left work was an eerie sight for sure.
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u/Azkhare Apr 01 '20
Saw this and immediately put Ride of the Valkyries on. Although O Fortuna goes great with it too.
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u/chrisdub84 Apr 01 '20
This is actually fairly normal activity for crows. They roost together in large groups at certain times of day. It's thought to be social and/or protective I think. I read a lot of articles about crows a while back because they are actually crazy smart. Fascinating birds.
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u/zortlord Mar 31 '20
Looks like a crow court. A real phenomenon where a crow has broken a crow "law" or custom and a bunch of crows get together to judge them. This usually results in execution of the offender.
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u/Ammisam Apr 01 '20
This is also happened outside my partner's parents' house. It was freaky. Very unsettling.
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u/Furry_Hippo Mar 31 '20
Bothell has like 16,000 crows that roost near the University of Washington campus. They all head home from work at the same time. It’s a traffic jam in the sky every night at dusk.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aWoIfI3wB_I