To love crows

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Frivolous thread.

Sick of doom and gloom.

I absolutely love crows . All corvids really but crows are just ace .

I love the way they stand in the road like "come on then car ....come and have a go if you think you're hard enough "

I love their attitude. I love how they walk .

I'd love to find a baby crow or a raven that needed rearing . They're just so hard !
Recently saw a you tube video of. Crow that fed a mouse that was trying it's luck with a bread bun the crow had ....crow broke a bit off and took it to the mouse .
That is one intelligent bird . I love them.

This must be it?

That's the one erol ! It's so sweet

My Parent's lounge looks over their garden, over the fence you can just see the next door garage roof. The Crows love to be on their - it's like a comedy show sometimes with them
Chasing each other. One was walking with a huge branch in his mouth the other day.

*there. It's late

One was walking with a huge branch in his mouth the other day

Probably on his way to twat some poor bastard and steal his kebab.

I just love their brazen attitude . Like I'm here ! Like it or lump it !
I like anything with that level of confidence. Corvids - crows specifically- just seem all knowing .
I watched the sandman too ....sealed my love !

Ravens are massive btw - my mate used to keep birds of prey and had a Raven - bloody huge ! But lovely . A real character.

I agree they are bloody brilliant.

I know they are really clever and all that but the trouble is I would really like to encourage the small birds in to my garden. Sparrows, blue tits, robins etc. I put out food for them in feeders designed for small birds. But these damned intelligent (and aggressive) crows and magpies scare away the little birds and figure out how to dislodge the bird feeder so they get the seeds.

The pigeons are big and stupid but they know to hang about until the big boys have gone then they hoover up the remains.

I also dislike the magpies because I have seen them killing the smaller birds.

On top of that we have just made a pond and I would so like it if we got frogs or toads moving in but I gather crows will eat frogs or toads. So I can't join in with the crow love in.

That video is fantastic, that was definitely done on purpose.
I remember seeing videos a few years ago when crow and pigions were shown puzzles and the had to work out how to get food by using tools or pecking colours .
The pigeons were great with colours but the crow were amazing with tools , creating hooks or dropping stones in water to make water rise in test tubes and float food up.

🤣🤣

I love them too. I'm envious of people who develop a friendship with crows where they leave out food for them and in exchange the crows leave coins or other such shiny bits and pieces. They like to pay their way do crows!

I spoke to a guy at Stonehenge, he worked there and the rooks would fly and land on his arm and he'd feed them. So jealous.

We have magpies come into the garden and fall in the birdbath, I think they're pissed on over ripe fruit.

Ah, my people! Have you seen this phenomenal footage from the BBC Natural History Unit of Japanese ? That was clever enough but the bit with the pedestrian crossing.... 😁

Bah, post got mangled. It's Japanese crows using traffic to crush nuts for them. It's fabulous

I like crows and magpies, but I love ravens! I've moved quite a bit and I feel comforted if there are ravens around.

I hand reared a crow as a teenager. It was a rescue mission from a destroyed nest. The parents had been killed by the game keeper.

He was lovely, immensely intelligent and very sociable. He used to fly up to my bedroom window every morning just before six, tap on the glass and caw. I’d run downstairs and when I’d open the back door, he’d be fluttering his wings like a baby chick, bouncing backwards and forwards on the step, full of excitement.

I used to play tricks with him, hide things for him to go and find, he loved puzzles. He quickly learned that if he removed the clothes pegs off the washing line, someone would come back outside to put them back on again! 😄

When you’d tickle him under his beak, his eyes lids would flicker in ecstasy. He was a good little friend. Very loyal and used to bring me little treasures. My favourite was a hair clip.

We have a family who live in our area (I am not sure if they are crows or ravens, they are very big and have the beards so I am leaning towards ravens). At first there were a couple who moved in and now they have their 'baby' who is getting quite big and who comes and visits.

We also have the local magpies. We are in Sydney, so these are the 'dangerous' sort, but as they are our magpies they don't bomb are because are neighbours.

I drink my coffee, and have my single cig of the day, and they usually come down for a chat, they get on with the cat who is too old, fat and lazy to be any bother to anyone these days as well. She just sits at my feet and watches them as they sit on the fence and discuss the morning.

Cockatoos and kookaburras as well. And there is an ongoing argument about who gets to sit in a certain tree between the kookas and the crows which sometimes breaks out into violence.

Oh no, they genuinely scare me, they are too clever by half. I think they could stage a coup at some point.

We have ravens here. Massive and seriously feisty buggers who will take groceries from your shopping cart. They think nothing of emptying dumpsters. Saw one eating a pile of vomit once. Noisy too. They make all sorts of calls and clicks.

Joke:

The police found over 2000 dead crows on highways recently, and there was concern that they may have died from Avian Flu. A Pathologist examined the remains of all the crows, and, to everyone’s relief, confirmed the problem was NOT Avian Flu.

The cause of death appeared to be from vehicular impacts.

However, during analysis it was noted that varying colors of paints appeared on the bird’s beaks and claws. By analyzing these paint residues, it was found that 98% of the crows had been killed by impact with motorbikes, while only 2% were killed by cars.

They then hired an Ornithological Behaviorist to determine if there was a cause for the disproportionate percentages of motorbike kills versus car kills.

The Ornithological Behaviorist quickly concluded that when crows eat road kill, they always have a look-out crow to warn of danger. They discovered that while all the lookout crows could shout “CAH!”, not a single one could shout “BIKE!”

Was this Professor Nicky Clayton, based in Cambridge? She demonstrated that the corvids are the most intelligent avian families on Earth by studying an American species called the Scrub Jay, and suggested that the birds might have an intelligence level similar to chimpanzees.

Yes, that's her.

They are my favourites too. When I first joined MN there was someone who had rescued a crow, she wrote very funny accounts of their life together. I don’t know what happened to him in the end.

Love crows and all corvids. This thread is fab. My phone just auto corrected corvids to corvina - maybe it’s trying to tell me that would make a good name (erm, perhaps not).

i thought it was a raven in Sandman?