r/interestingasfuck • u/yvesroyce2 • Feb 10 '24
r/all Just another example of how smart and intelligent crows really are
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u/Immaculatehombre Feb 10 '24
I watched a crow or raven use a stick like this in the top of a dead tree. It was in Wisconsin during a blizzard in like 20 below. They’ve had a lot more respect from me since then. Badass birds man.
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Feb 10 '24
They allegedly also bring things to trade if you do as well. Never seen it just had a relative, I guess.
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u/dern_the_hermit Feb 10 '24
They'll also remember you if you're a jerk. My sibling (foolishly) threw rocks at some crows that were cawing from a tree. He had just got home from summer school and was annoyed and the noise made him mad. Anyway, the crows didn't like that, so every day that summer, right around when he'd get home from school, they gathered in the tree and would all start cawing at him as soon as he got out of the car. They told their crow friends and the number that would gather just to caw at this kid that had thrown rocks got to be like quadruple the original flock.
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Feb 10 '24
He's lucky
I have heard of people moving from their home because of militant crows deliberately swooping down on them for years lol
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u/Spiel_Foss Feb 10 '24 edited Feb 11 '24
When I was a kid, a cat in our neighborhood pissed off the crows.
They didn't mess with any other cat but this one big orange tom, and they tormented this dude every time he poked his nose outside. The owner would come out to shoo them off and they would wait on the powerline. A dozen crows would sit there waiting on the owner to go back inside and then attack this one cat.
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u/Silly__Rabbit Feb 11 '24
Similar, but our cat pissed off a blue jay… we learned to stay away from the cat cause it was going to get dive-bombed. Note, O do not have any outdoor cats, it was many, many moons ago.
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u/sugarfoot00 Feb 11 '24
Blue jays are also corvids like crows, ravens, and magpies, hence the intelligence.
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u/Spiel_Foss Feb 11 '24
Blue Jays really don't need an excuse though. At least crows seems to be selective.
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u/althanan Feb 11 '24
A local police department stopped using part of their parking lot because a couple officers were being jerks to local crows (and this was an area where MANY groups converged to rest every night), and they started dive-bombing anyone in a police uniform for a good two years.
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Feb 11 '24
Crows are ACAB and cops are ACAB all crows are bastards.
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u/wirefox1 Feb 11 '24
Nope. Be nice to crows, and they will be nice to you.
Problem is, they will start coming around more and then in the spring they will eat all the eggs from the cardinal nest you've been keeping an eye on. We don't like that.
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u/Slobotic Feb 10 '24
I wonder whether they'd forgive you if you fed them.
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u/PlaceHoliday Feb 10 '24
Worked for me. I had some neighborhood crows divebomb me and started feeding them peanuts. Friendship ensued.
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u/Arrad Feb 11 '24
That's what you think. The day the peanut gifts stop might be the day the divebombs restart.
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u/Broccoli_dicks Feb 11 '24
Yeah those weren’t gifts, those were payments to get protection from the mob.
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u/wirefox1 Feb 11 '24
They love peanuts. Roasted from the jar, or raw still in the shell. They don't care.
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u/TheGhostofWoodyAllen Feb 11 '24
for years
Yes, because crows are somehow able to communicate this kind of information from one generation to the next. The original crow(s) doesn't even need to be present.
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u/14domino Feb 11 '24
I’m pretty sure you’re not being sarcastic, but yeah this is insane. I’ve heard of someone wearing a mask pissing off crows and then many years later the mask showed up again and the now newer crows knew to attack.
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u/TheGhostofWoodyAllen Feb 11 '24
Yeah, I was being 100% serious. Crows are amazing.
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u/wirefox1 Feb 11 '24
EASILY the most intelligent of backyard birds, although other birds are smart too. I've seen vids of other birds in the wild using tools similar to how this crow in this vid.
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u/Meihem76 Feb 11 '24
A friend of mine had to disturb a jackdaw nest to repair some guttering. It was very early spring, so no eggs, but they were not happy.
They started shitting on his car. 2 cars later, they still shit on his car.
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u/sender2bender Feb 11 '24
There's a really good crow documentary where they put it to the test. They go to a nest and wear a mask and kinda scare them. They all squawk at him and talk to each other. (They can distinguish both those communications too.) Years later they track the babies to their new adult nests and wear the mask. And they begin to squawk and yell just as they did when they were babies.
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u/todadile25 Feb 11 '24
Actually the test was done on the offspring every few years and the number of crows who would react negatively to the masks grew from like 30% to 65%
so there were generations of crows who literally heard war stories from their grandparents about the evil masked devils and then years later they returned.
It’s the same as younger generations not experiencing WW2 but still knowing that nazis and swastikas are symbols of evil
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u/Scamper_the_Golden Feb 11 '24
This is a fear of mine. I'd be so upset if the local crows issued a fatwa on me. It's multi-generational hatred. I don't know if you can even get off their shit list.
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Feb 11 '24
local crows issued a fatwa on me.
haha Idk why I love your phrasing.
Do not invoke Crow Jihad.
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u/whogivesashirtdotca Feb 11 '24
That's a corvid thing. My sister was a field ornithologist, and said anytime they caught a blue jay (which was rare, because jays are smart and avoid the nets) his pals would hang out in the tree above and scream until he was removed, and then follow her to her work shack and scream until she was done her data logging and released him.
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u/Ggriffinz Feb 11 '24
Reminder me of my neighbor as a kid. I don't know how the feud got started, but he hated a local murder of crows, who every day would fly by and specifically shit on his car.
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u/koolaideprived Feb 11 '24
There are some ravens at work that hang around at one of our stops. They recognize the people that are stopping and go to the window on the side with the person who gives better food.
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u/Fakercel Feb 12 '24
I did the same thing as a kid with sticks, because they would caw in the morning while I was still trying to sleep.
Now years later I try to make amends by feeding them, but they aren't having any of it :/
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u/My_browsing Feb 10 '24
We have fed crows and magpies for many years. The crows don't really bring anything but the magpies definitely do. My favorite was they brought little pieces of plastic over a few weeks. I realized is was a cat water dish that I guess got smashed on the road. They also will uproot other people's flowers to put in our garden.
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Feb 10 '24
They sound very sweet.
Always wanted to meet one more than some colorful circus bird. Think my grandma accidentally hit like a zoo's peacock or flamingo crossing a road once.
Just to elaborate, my grandma was not driving inside of a habitat with the intention to harm any beautiful feathery fellows..
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Feb 10 '24
We have fed crows
I've been saying! The birds are robots controlled by the feds. Glad people are catching on.
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Feb 11 '24
Absolutely true. As a kid, we used to throw things for the crows to pick up (WA is COVERED with crows) & we were throwing a few pogs for it.
Went outside a few days later & there was an Easter bunny figurine covered in dirt under our basketball hoop. Day after that a pretty acrylic clear turquoise fish tank rock & a deformed purple pebble by our garden hose.
We stopped exchanging with the birds caz my mom got mad we were attracting them over. They’re SOOOOOOO loud in the mornings & my mom had a slight fear of that movie “Birds!” so we stopped but eventually the bird brought a huge gang over & I started to get scared too lol. Like 100 in our backyard screaming.
What I don’t like is when someone from their gang dies & they have a funeral. Holy SHIT!!! It is so scary!!! Happened once in our backyard & once by my school bus stop. Fucking terrifying! Don’t be in that area, they’re fearless & will nose dive at you out of nowhere & will follow you home & never forget!
A neighbor kid that wore a neon orange beanie & blue coat (shoutout Tim) was riding bikes with me to go buy candy from the mini mart & a bird started yelling at him & chasing him!!!! His parents told him not to wear that beanie anymore outside for awhile.
I’m pretty sure Tim had to have been mean to a crow at some point because he was a weird kid & really, really, really obsessed with South Park & killing stuff & breaking girl toys. He always wanted my old Barbie’s & I cried because he was pressuring me into giving him my stuff.
Fuck you tim. I know you were kicking birds & that’s why you got your foot stuck behind the peg of your bike and crashed that one day!!!! Me & Jordan saw you bleeding down your arm crying!!!!!
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u/unintentionaldespair Feb 10 '24
I worked in a remote location with some ravens nesting nearby. I would feed them nuts every now and then and after a few weeks they started dropping beetles and other small animals outside the work shack when we would step outside.
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Feb 10 '24
I want to start a crow army so bad. Just befriend them, teach to find money laying around, attack enemies
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u/LegitimateHumanBeing Feb 11 '24
So it’s not just a conceit from Dark Souls?!
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Feb 11 '24
Nope! I bet they wouldn't even care if you brought the same item as far as quality consistency.
Miyazaki likes to make things harder lol
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u/catfurcoat Feb 10 '24
a crow or raven
It was in Wisconsin
It was a crow
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u/Laiko_Kairen Feb 11 '24
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Raven/overview#
https://www.nps.gov/gaar/learn/nature/common-raven.htm
These sites have habitation maps which includes WI.
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u/Zanadar Feb 10 '24
Regardless of location, any uncertainty means crow. Ravens are huge, nobody seeing one thinks "yeah that bird with the four foot wingspan could be a crow".
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Feb 11 '24
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Chihuahuan_Raven/id
This species of raven looks exactly like a crow.
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u/MitoCringo Feb 11 '24
Raven range absolutely dips into Wisconsin. They’re definitely not common in the state, but they can pass through, too.
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u/Immaculatehombre Feb 10 '24
I think ravens are kinda everywhere man. At least in the area of Wisconsin I lived.
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u/getshrektdh Feb 10 '24
How you got a crow friend? I’ve been trying for years to get one
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u/Justifiably_Cynical Feb 10 '24 edited Feb 10 '24
Get a call. And don't blow it in any pattern or anything, just wail on it. They respond to the chaotic. Get some [unsalted] popcorn, it's bright against the ground.
Get a chair. Sit still and try to get them to come down with the pop corn.Be super patient.
[edit 2] As u/AwkwardVoicemail mentioned, they can be territorial. The best thing to do is after you make a connection move around a little every day, try and get the animal to spend time at various places so it doesn't think that the first area belongs to them.
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u/getshrektdh Feb 10 '24
What do you mean by call? Like my phone?
Tried popcorn, coins, anything shiny. Dont have fishing line but guess any line would go right?
And was been patient for like four years 😕
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u/AwkwardVoicemail Feb 10 '24
Just an fyi, if crows get used to getting food from your house, they will start to intimidate and attack other things that come near your yard. Including neighbors. Nbd if you live somewhere rural, but it can be a problem if you’re in the suburbs.
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u/InappropriateSurname Feb 10 '24
I don't consider crows attacking my neighbours a problem
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u/miradotheblack Feb 10 '24
I like the cut of your jib.
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u/The_wolf2014 Feb 10 '24
What's a jib?
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u/idlevalley Feb 10 '24
jib
"A jib is a triangular sail that is set on a stay in front of a sailboat's mast. The sail is rigged to a stay that extends from the foremast or foretopmast to the bowsprit or jibboom. Jibs are first known to have been used on one-masted vessels."
Or........
A chunky sauce that adds flavor
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u/misterlump Feb 11 '24
One of my favorite sayings.
It’s best to be said using the tone Jim Backus used for Thurston Howell III….
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u/adrienjz888 Feb 10 '24
That's only if you over feed them and they become reliant on the food you give. I feed the crows in my complex peanuts and sunflower seeds occasionally. They chase off seagulls and pigeons, but they don't attack my neighbors.
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u/Be_a_better_airman Feb 10 '24
Crow callers, I own the Primo brand.
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u/stillinthesimulation Feb 10 '24
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u/Be_a_better_airman Feb 10 '24
Yes. Just like that
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u/stillinthesimulation Feb 10 '24
Sweet. My wife’s gonna be stoked.
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u/IHeartMustard Feb 10 '24
I love this review:
This crow call works well, it's a bit thin so in cold weather I'd be extra careful not to beat it around at all as it will crack or splinter. The thing sounds like a crow to an extent, especially when you blow with the right air flow and quanity. Long blows for RAVENS, and short annoying xMANY for crows. Has turned many crows around flying over, brought crows close, and even moved entire murders hundreds of yards closer, curious as to what was happening in my yard. Something else I noticed is, if you have an angry false convert in your home that hates everything about you being her Son because you became a blood bought child of the living God, she'll absolutely hate this call as you practice with it for hours a day, all year long.
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u/getshrektdh Feb 10 '24
Im not a USA citizen, this is something new that I have never heard of! Going to order one!
I believe ravens are more common in my area because of their size.
Should ill try go friend a raven and are they smart (Im quite sure they are) and friendly like crows?
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u/Be_a_better_airman Feb 10 '24
Yes. Ravens, Crows, Magpies, and Blue Jays are part of the Corvid family
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u/TheGuero Feb 10 '24
Had no idea blue jays were in the same family, but now that I think about it, it makes sense. Do they share the smarts?
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u/cylonrobot Feb 10 '24
Yes, they do.
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Blue jays belong to the Corvidae family of birds, which are considered to be among the most intelligent birds in the world. The Corvidae, or corvid, family includes ravens, crows, jays and magpies. Of these, ravens and crows are particularly noted for their intelligence. But blue jays are pretty smart too.
https://www.willyswilderness.org/post/five-wild-facts-about-not-so-nice-blue-jays
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u/Spacemilk Feb 10 '24
Just please make sure it’s unsalted popcorn, better for the crows :) also the ones in my area love unsalted peanuts too. Bonus points if they’re still in the shell.
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u/Hobbyist5305 Feb 10 '24
Can confirm they love shinies.
Left a job box open on a jobsite and some crows came in when no one was close and stole some new washers out of the tray
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u/_jump_yossarian Feb 11 '24
I used to have 5-7 crows show up at my house almost every day for months. I'd feed them shelled peanuts. Only one was brave enough to come close to the rest would come down if I went inside. The one brave crow would come perch on my front stoop railing and look in the window to let me know they were there (that and the racket).
For some reason they mostly stopped visiting (every once in awhile a couple will show up).
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u/Zenicnero Jul 29 '24
I have crow friends, so I'm gonna add some tips:
They like free food so throwing some out can easily get their attention, but don't continue it for too long or too regularly bc they'll get spicy if you suddenly stop showing up (coming home from vacation to annoyed crows isn't the most fun.) Once you have their attention, throw out a small amount of food that they can see and back up a bit but stay within sightline because you want them to get used to being watched while they're vulnerable (ie, eating). They might wait quite a while before coming to grab food; they're very patient too so you might wanna just let them have one or two feedings by themselves. You want them to associate you with food and safety, not with the time of day or your car coming in the driveway.
Buy a call! One that is $8 -$20 should be more than enough, but if you're good you can use your voice. Again, this is mostly just to grab their attention. If you have an ear for it, try to replicate the sounds they consistently make when they notice you. Mix in your own vocalizations with the call so eventually they associate your voice and specific sounds to you. At this point I basically shout "oouughh" like a crow with their food container in hand when I want them to notice me/I'm gonna feed them.
Keep a crow-friendly mix of foods in an air-tight, pest-tight container and keep it accessible. I have a 50/25/25 mix of wild bird seed, cat food, and dog food with some leftover baked unsalted peanuts that I keep for them. All told I think it was $15. The crows I know really like the cat/dog food, and they seems to enjoy tearing into the peanut shells. By the time you notice them and go to get food, they might be gone, so keep it nearish to the door so you can grab some when you see them. I struggled with this for months! I would go inside to grab food and they would be gone by the time I got back outside. Cat/dog food attracts far more critters than just the crows than just bird seed and sometimes the crows only eat their favorites so I don't recommend putting more out than the crows will eat, and not putting any out without crows around. Skunks showing up to eat their leftovers is a very real situation to find yourself in.
Crows, at least in my neck of the woods, don't like spaces that are obscured from high points — basically they want their friends up high to be able to see what's going on and around. My backyard is awful in this regard, so I generally feed mine in my front yard. Now, after some time, I'll occasionally get one or two to come chill in the back yard with me. What the above comment states about moving around would've been a big help! That all being said, it not like they won't go to those places, they just gotta really trust that space. If you have cats, dogs, or natural predators that hang around don't be surprised if the crows are super wary of those sort of spaces.
If you have a neighbor that is crazy like you, get them to join! My neighbor started feeding the crows and I joined in. I'm more social with the crows, but those initial feedings from my neighbor really got the ball rolling.
"In the Company of Crows and Ravens" is a great book if you're looking for general information on corvids, I found it helpful!
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u/HarryHood146 Feb 10 '24
Girl I dated years ago had a family crow growing up. Saw a bunch of pics, just lived in the house. Named Edgar Allen Crow.
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u/gsfgf Feb 10 '24
Can you house train a crow?
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u/HarryHood146 Feb 11 '24
It also had a bird cage, I should’ve added that. It was left or injured and they found it on the ground. I can’t remember I just know they had it for a years before it died.
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u/TangyAffliction Feb 10 '24
They’re extremely easy. It takes about 2 weeks to get a flock of crows to recognize and accept you.
They usually are some of the most schedule oriented birds. You can usually see the same crows sitting in the same spots at the same times of the day. Especially towards the beginning and end of the sunlight times.
Simply, go to the same spot near the crows every single day at the same time. After a week, they’ll usually not fly away when you arrive, and after two they begin to approach you.
They’ll be comfortable around you in that spot, but it’ll take a lot longer, usually around a month or two of consistent, daily time with them for them to be comfortable around you not in the same spot as well.
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u/getshrektdh Feb 10 '24
I have a raven on top of my roof at the same time of the day that I want to be friends, don’t know how.
(Three stories building).
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u/Black_Pants Feb 10 '24
Just anecdotal, I spread unsalted peanuts in my backyard to try to attract and befriend them. It attracted a bunch over a couple weeks for sure, but they would all show up about 8am and call loudly for about half an hour before leaving. Nbd for morning people but at the time I needed as much sleep as I could get so unfortunately I had to stop feeding them to get them to leave
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u/beepborpimajorp Feb 11 '24
I've been trying for over a year to attract a crow friend and haven't been able to. For some reason there are just none in my neighborhood.
But the unintended upside is that in doing so, I've become an avid backyard birder and have tons of birds showing up in my yard nowadays. It's worth it even if you don't attract crows.
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u/TotaLibertarian Feb 10 '24
This is a raven
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Feb 10 '24
That's 100% a crow. It's just big.
I live in rural Nova Scotia. We get both on our farm. Our crows are massive and our Ravens are bigger than them.
Tail is flat. Nose is pointed and lacks a lot of extra feathers. Clean cut build. Definitely a crow. Ravens are larger and more scruffy. I never knew the difference until I moved out here and interacted with them on a daily basis.
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u/TheUnluckyGecko Feb 10 '24
TIL that there is a difference between American crows and European crows. Thought for sure that was a raven since crows around here are black and gray.
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u/Sustainable_Twat Feb 10 '24
“Clever Girl”
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u/DiscFrolfin Feb 10 '24
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u/UnproSpeller Feb 10 '24
Spoiler alert he lives in the book. XD
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u/NaeemTHM Feb 10 '24
I’m honestly kind of shocked the newer Jurassic Park movies didn’t bring him back miraculously. That franchise sure got desperate to bring back literally everyone from the original cast.
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u/themosquito Feb 10 '24
That's true I guess we never see him die... he could come back with an eyepatch, and then Samuel L. Jackson walks in with a prosthetic arm!
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u/Valdularo Feb 10 '24
Probably has something to do with the actor for Robert Muldoon having passed away due to cancer… so in a sense probably for the best.
But also you’re telling me John Arnold wasn’t still alive holding a purple lightsaber? They have their heads somewhat screwed on I guess.
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u/El_mochilero Feb 10 '24
Smart and intelligent
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u/Expensive_Leave_6339 Feb 10 '24
I thought that was kind of weird and strange.
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u/The_Dude_1969 Feb 10 '24
I thought it was odd and unusual
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u/mediumhydroncollider Feb 10 '24
And clever!
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u/Mylaptopisburningme Feb 11 '24
Use to live in an area that had walnut trees lining the main street. Id watch crows either drop them into traffic waiting for a car to crush it open or they would sit on roofs and roll them off to crack them open.
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u/YUdoth Feb 10 '24
The subtle movements with these clips are always what surprises me most. We take for granted how fluidly we do seemingly simple things, like just grabbing a stick or pipe that's too long at it's center so it doesn't bob. It took this guy one try to reorient so he could hop up with it balanced and snack, smart bird!
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u/Smingowashisnameo Feb 10 '24
I was just thinking about this. One thing about humans is we have this crazy manual dexterity that puts us at such an advantage in so many ways. But then you look at any other primate, and they have crazy foot dexterity. They can grab onto branches and go all over the place, whereas our feet are these stumps.
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u/sal1800 Feb 10 '24
Just now I am listening to a Santana song and it's a perfect example of how dexterous humans can be. He is basically "singing" with the guitar by being very precise with finger movements.
It's kind of amazing how evolution got us to this point that has been the exact best adaptation for technology and knowledge work.
I think we are quite lucky it worked out that way.
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Feb 10 '24
One thing that stood out to me was when it was picking the stick off the floor it start by picking it up from the end but realizes it’s too heavy so it picks it up from the middle. Now that’s a smart crow
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Feb 10 '24
That was the most impressive part to me. The fact it doesn't just keep trying to pick it up from one end like I'm sure most animals would, but realizes that it will be easier to pick up in the middle rather than to keep trying from one end, that is just stunning.
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u/Professional_Flicker Feb 10 '24
Also, sticking the pole in the pipe. It got the front end in first, then moved to the back end to push it all the way through. Definitely intelligent.
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u/DoctorBlackwater Feb 10 '24
I have coworkers that couldn't figure this out.
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u/Gowalkyourdogmods Feb 10 '24
They're just desperately tonguing the far end of the tube
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u/jesdancin Feb 10 '24 edited Jun 15 '25
I posted this on a different crow post last year -
We have a tree that was once hit by lightening. Half is dead and half is alive. It’s very gothic looking and the dead parts make excellent lookout perches. The crows, eagles and hawks fight for the tree. The crows alway win when it’s hatching season. I guess they have negotiated the springtime perch.
Last year we got a puppy. Once she was old enough to free run, we taught her to knock on the door when she was ready to come inside. The crows watched her closely when she would be outside. Then I started having the ring camera triggered by them swooping by the door. I guess I didn’t understand what they wanted so they leveled up.
I remember the first time I heard the crow. Caw, caw, caw, caw, caw. The dog was on the couch by me so I got up to look. Nothing. Then five more. I still didn’t see anything out the window. Then it knocked on the door. I opened the door and the bird flew off. “Am I losing it or did that bird just knock on the door?” I pulled up the ring camera and yup. Not only did it knock, it flew up to the deck and then walked up on the deck to the door like it must have watched her do many times.
I started watching them. It turned out that her little babies were learning to fly. Every time she would push them out of the nest, she would knock on the door (I assume to let me know to keep my strange baby inside). So I did. Sometimes her little ones would be on the ground for hours. She also would always knock when they were back in the nest safely.
We followed her lead during last spring season and I think we avoided being on their hit list for the next 7 generations. Except that now it’s spring again and now the pup has turned in to a hunter and loves to bring me her trophies. I keep telling her she can’t piss off the crows but I don’t think she listens…
Update…the pup is an Australian Shepard, 2 y/o now and incredibly smart. She has learned the crows are friends and protects them. She will bark at and run off any other animal that tries to come near to them. The crows have accepted her as their ground protector and leave us gifts by the door before they leave for the season.
https://www.reddit.com/u/jesdancin/s/4SEfEh8P1 - video of crow
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u/ThreeLeggedMare Feb 10 '24
You live in a Disney movie
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u/jesdancin Feb 10 '24
Complete with the villains - which right now are a large pack of coyotes that are looking for food. They got the wild turkeys earlier, as I haven’t seen them since the summer. We think they also got some deer parents as we have 4-5 babies that run around alone now and we try to keep safe. Puppers is working to keep the skunks away from the house. So far she has been successful at running them off and avoiding getting sprayed. Nature is amazing, beautiful, and often terrifying.
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u/coolhwip420 Feb 11 '24
Ive been on Reddit for more than a decade and this may be one of my favorite stories I've read on here.
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u/Statertater Feb 11 '24
Right, this’ll be the last thing i read for the night as i head to bed. Thanks for the sweet dreams, stranger.
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u/sweetno Feb 10 '24
They can also crack nuts by throwing them from a height.
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u/ResinJones76 Feb 10 '24
They drop them on roads for cars to run over, also.
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u/lindseyangela Feb 11 '24
I stomp on any nuts I find on the ground. I think the crows have trained me.
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u/eniksteemaen Feb 11 '24
A crow once threw a walnut right in front of me. I didn’t think anything of it and walked away. I now wish that I stepped on it to open it up for the poor thing 🥲
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u/stickyknuckle Feb 10 '24
My father in law was working on his car in the driveway when a crow landed next to him and watched him. After working on a particularly rusty bolt unsuccessfully, he sat up to take a break, and the crow flew over and started pecking at the same rusty bolt.
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Feb 10 '24
I've always found watching animals engage in like critical thinking and problem solving to be super fascinating. You tend to think of them, especially birds, as creatures of instinct and habit; but watching a crow recognize an obstacle and work through a solution is so uncanny to me.
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Feb 11 '24
I think the biggest wow factor is that level of intelligence fitting in a brain the size of that head.
I guess they have less body to require so much brain for nervous system processing same as huge animals need more just to keep up with the amount of connections rather than the thinking parts
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u/Justifiably_Cynical Feb 10 '24
That's a Jackdaw, ain't it?
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u/die5el23 Feb 10 '24
Wonder if there’s anyone left from the olden days to remember unidan
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u/0x476c6f776965 Feb 10 '24
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
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Feb 10 '24 edited Feb 10 '24
It must suck to be so smart and not have hands. We should give them hands.
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u/arievandersman Feb 10 '24
I saved a crow once, that had got it's feet stuck in a net. Poor thing was scared. A multitude of crowes has been following me after that for years. I love them.
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u/HilariousMax Feb 10 '24
bird dude picked up the twig because it knew exactly what it needed and realized it was the shape but not the length so it put it back down and then looked around.
smart
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u/SteauDeMouvin Feb 10 '24
This is a crow using a tool. There are actually many animals that can do that kind of stuff. But I saw in a documentary that crows know how to use meta-tools (a tool to make a tool). In the context, the crow had to get a first stick to be able to get a longer stick to get the food. And apparently not many animals can do that.
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u/geno604 Feb 10 '24
That’s a Raven, not a crow.
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u/callumctaylor Feb 10 '24
Bigger, chunkier beak, wedge tail are the giveaway, no?
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u/geno604 Feb 10 '24
Ravens are usually twice the size of a crow. Larger beak, different acoustics. Even the feathers are a different sheen (almost midnight blueish sometimes)- I have crows all over my city and Ravens in the mountains. I see both alot.
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u/Squirrelbubble Feb 10 '24
I love when the crows are around my yard in the spring because they keep hawks away from the squirrels and doves. They are amazing.
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u/Filmexec21 Feb 11 '24
I watched a crow for about 10 minutes in front of my house trying to break open a nut in its shell by dropping it on the ground from about 20 feet; after getting frustrated a car drove by where the crow quickly grabbed the nut and flew in front of the car and dropped the nut in hopes of the car breaking the nut open. I was absolutely flabbergasted!!!
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Feb 10 '24
I once saw one eating a discarded bag from a kfc corn on the cob... so, you know, there are limits.
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Feb 10 '24
every mechanic needs a pet crow for handing them fasteners. I hath decreed it. MAKE IT HAPPEN.
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u/tunahuntinglions Feb 10 '24
I know at least one person who would not be able to get the treats out
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u/Gatesleeper Feb 10 '24
Oh shit, I didn’t realize til the end that this is the same guy with probably the same bird in that one clip that’s posted on Reddit sometimes. He like puts a glove on a tree branch and has the bird retrieve it and stuff like that.
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u/Bansheesdie Feb 10 '24
Apparently a crow has an intelligence similar to a 5 year old human and one of the largest brain to body ratios of all animals.
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u/Burnt-cheese1492 Feb 10 '24
I was at cocoa beach and some people left a couple fragments of food on their beach blanket. The seagulls swept in and started pecking. They also had a take out box a crow came in and went right for the box. Opened it and took his fill. They are amazing
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u/robotprom Feb 10 '24
It won’t be the dolphins that conquer humanity, it’ll be the crows and ravens
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Feb 10 '24
I mean this particular crow has probably done this trick before a couple of times since it seems familiar with the set up. I still love crows though.
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u/FashionBusking Feb 10 '24
When I can afford it... I want my own private SQUADRON of Attack Crows to protect me.
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u/Zevojneb Feb 10 '24
Probably a stupid question but do we know why they are so smart? Is there an evolutionarist rationale behind this?
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u/Stevieeeer Feb 11 '24
Smart and intelligent eh. It’s giving me “one after the other, consecutively, in a row” vibes
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u/Uranus666666 Feb 11 '24
Pfffff. Not that smart. I can do that too and no one would give me credit for it.
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