Hello. I'm native american living on my reservation in N. Wisc. There are many ravens here, also crows. They have learned traffic patterns. If bird is on a road, it will hop to the opposite lane out of the traveler's lane until you pass. Also, there was an actual incident when a crow "crouched" in the ctr of a lane until my pickup trk passed over it. I was amazed. In rearview, he was okay & just kept pecking at a crushed frog. Ravens have superb vision & can see you thru the windows & can actually see the motion of your eyeball & eyelashes when you are looking at them. This makes them nervous & they'll usually leave. I toss out leftover pancake pcs, they luv em. In our language, the raven is "Andek". It is my spirit bird. Your videos are very good, thx.
That is really cool! I appreciate your info! I knew they could tell when they were being watched but I didn't know it went that deep. That's really cool! And thanks for the language part! I love languages! If you don't mind me asking, what nation are you with?
@@LearnStuffWithÓnen I’ve been told a few times that they never forget a face or a wrong that has been done to them?? Also they don’t forget a kindness??? I wonder if that’s true??? I would love to believe that it is❤️🕊
My favorite is when they 'mumble' a low, fluttering gibberish. It really sounds like they're talking, questioning, even. There's also 'clucking' noises that we make to each other, with various tongue clicks, etc.
I was playing Pokemon Go in a parking lot and all the crows suddenly went nuts. I look up turn around and there is a bobcat 3 feet behind me approaching me. I thought it was a Labrador dog it was that big. Thank you crows
There was a crow near the station in my town that wasnt able to fly anymore. ( i regularly feed birds there) First i saw it sitting on top of cars, days later it was sitting on a fence in the rain late at night. I stayed with it and phoned animal rescue that caught it. The crow looked very angry at me. 2 month later i was at the same place, and a crow came flying towards me and landed 6 feet from me and looked up. I immediately knew this was the crow that couldnt fly anymore, they managed to heal the bird. Two weeks later i was walking the area across the road. Again a crow comes flying to me and lands few feet from me (not their normal behaviour) and few seconds later another crow lands aside the other. It came proudly showing its youngster. Great experience of thankfulness, showing how smart and social these birds are.
Crows are very intelligent. I had found a baby vrow under a tree. It just started to get a few wing feathers and still had just tuff on its head. I took it home and put it in a my room in a nest I made out of a towel. I got some worms and ground them up and then with a little water mixed it. The took a eye dropper and sucked up the ground up worm. And when I went to the baby crow it lifted its head and opened it mouth and I slowly squeezed the eye dropper full of the worms. And kept feeding him till he stopped wanting any more. I had gotten plenty of worms digging them up and had them in dirt also in my home. Any time the baby opened its mouth I fed it including when I took it to work with me. It then as it got older but it dtill could not fly. I would take it outside and had a small aluminum pan with water and it would hop in and splash itself. Then I would wipe it off. I would then hide from it. And the minute it could not see me would be squaking. And then see me running to me flapoing its wings. I then put it on my shoulder but it would crap on my shoulder so I took it off my shoulder cleaned the crap off. But after only 3 times of it crapping on me and then me grabbing it to take off of me. It did not crap on me anymore. When it would crap it would lean way back and crap so the crap would go to the ground. At night while in my bed I had it sitting on my stomach and would with one of my fingers would gently stroke its head and it eyes would close. But the minute I stopped its eyes open and it would peck me not real hard so I would keep patting it with my finger. But a friend came over. I had him in a big cage because it still could not fly but was getting there as I would raise it up on my hand up and down to strengthen its wings. My friend sticks his finger in the cage and the crow pecked him hard and cause his finger to bleed a little. My friend said look what it did. I said maybe you should not stick your finger in his cage it doesn't know you. It was one of the many what are called wild animals I had the privilege to know and interact with. For me its different for me then a dog or a cat. Because eventually in the crows case it could fly and live back in the wild. Other animals I have befriended they came buy on occasion to visit but then after we interacted for a few hours or the day off they went living as wild animals do. Then eventually show up again and again. I have interacted with 8 different wild animals in my life. It is the best part of my life. I would rather spend my time with wild animals then going on a cruise or anything else. I never had children. But see the wild animals as my children. You interact with your children. They get older and leave the home. And on occasion come back home to visit for awhile and leave again and your love for them never changes. Same is gor me and the animals.
That's awesome! I had that at my old location. My newer location is proving to be a little more difficult due to neighborhood situations like children, bluejays, and mockingbirds. But I'm hoping to reestablish what you've got. Glad you have lots of crowmies lol :)
@@LearnStuffWithÓnen i have definitely noticed that crows behave totally differently in different areas. when i’m traveling i’m often struck by how friendly and trusting the crows are (and the hilarious unique things they do!) you have definitely inspired me to document what they do in my neighborhood!
@@cassandramichellecoachingIf you witness crows attacking, picking apart the outside of a house, or dive bombing people you know bad people live there. Crows only dive bomb mean people repeated university studies have shown. The studies are online possibly here on YT.
This vid is awesome. I have lots of pines in the yard, where crows often group together. A few days after my beloved dog passed away, one crow sat near my home and perfectly imitated my dog's unique barking pattern. I took it as a sign that he was still close in spirit.
American crows sound a lot different to our crows, in the UK. I was outside today, working on my son's classic motorcycle. The friendly resident crow pair were calling out that there was a Raven somewhere. Four other crows turned up, a few minutes later and they headed off across the fields. 10 minutes later, a Raven could be heard amongst all the crow scalding. I know the local crow calls for: "Warning, Raven". "Warning, Fox". "Warning, Buzzard". "I've found food". (Totally different to the American crow impression). "Hello friend". (They used to call down to our pet crow and also us, because we feed them). "I'm miserable". (A pitiful groaning sound). "I'm angry". (An unmistakable sound and behaviour). "I want / demand food". (Our pet crow would repeatedly yell "Wahhhhh Wharrrrl" and also throw a tantrum, if we were late with her food). "I want to be a friend". (Head down in the chest and making a "Hooing" sound. Our pet crow would do this to visitors. I've had a wild crow do this to me, too). "I want affection". (Our pet crow made this call whenever petting was desired). "I'm over here". (Response call, on hearing the call below. The responding crow's identification is given on the tail end of the reply). "Is anyone out there??" (General broadcast call to other crows in the local murder. Our pet crow would also yell this whilst sat on my arm). "Go away / bugger off / shoo". (One of the local wild crow pair really hates pidgeons, wood pidgeons and doves. It will swoop on, close fly and attack them). "Parliament summoning". (The local murder held a parliament in a tree in the field adjoining our garden, to decide the fate of a adolescent crow that had attacked our blind pet crow. Other local crows came to our pet crow's aid and drove it off. The next day they summoned a parliament and I had to stand with our pet crow on my arm, near the tree, whilst she addressed the parliament for a few minutes. The end result, after 15 to 20 minutes of all the attending crows saying their piece, was that the rogue crow was expelled and chased away from the territory. We never saw it again. I'm probably the only human to have ever been allowed to attend a crow parliament). We had a wild born blinded adult crow, Blackie, as a family member, for just over 10 years. She was already around 3 years old when I found her. She used to communicate with us in crow language and miming to us. It learnt to understand English, but never actually talked.
Wow! How fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing. Thats amazing how much of their language you picked up. And the parliament meeting must have been an honor and humbling to experience and to know your local crows had your crow’s back. ❤
Dude I'm cracking up my cat is laying at the bottom of the bed while I'm watching this you made your crow calls and now my cat's up here at the speaker trying to figure out where the crow is at oh my God how funny is that and now he's looking out the window I'm laughing my goddamn ass off dude good crow calls
Great video, I have been hanging with a local flock here in San Diego for about 2 years now. They’re phenomenal and I pay attention and benefit from understanding there calls. They have helped protect me from a close encounter with a coyote .. when I was trying handle my dog and hold him back from continued lunging at the coyote , almost about to loose grip on his leash … the crow called in the troops to fly in and they dive bombed one by one the coyote running him off and after they flew over me until I got to my house! It was so incredibly special
Yes, they are. I'm in UK, and our crows sound totally different. By that, I mean U.S crows sound like a mix of our crows and ravens. Definitely a difference!
During lockdown I made friends with my local urban crows UK! They come and see me dawn & dusk! Even bring the family member now, including fledglings! I call a name & they call back! Taught them to bounce! It's a different sound calling to me from their normal "crow speak" One day I walked down to the corner shop, didn't realise I was being watched by them. On the walk home he started his alert call & swooped down behind me, in-between & towards a man stalking me! Bloke ran off & I thanked my crow friend, he then flew house top to house top until I got home! I just adore them!
Our Ravens and Crows are like family. Once upon a time, when I had a new puppy outside to potty train, a Crow started calling a sharp alarm and soaring from one tree towards another several times. When I finally saw the Golden Eagle sitting in the tree the Crow was swooping at I waved and called 'I see it, thank you!'. The Crow then flew off toward a mountain without another call. It may have been a Raven because we have both species here but I seem to remember it flapped like a Crow. Needless to say, I never left my puppy unattended.
I have a family of crows 🐦⬛ 🐦⬛ That live near me In a huge long leaf pine Ive been feeding them every day for a decade now Peanuts in shells Fruit nut seeds Healthy dog type treats they like Oatmeal leftover They call me every am to come out put food ! Loll He sits on roof that looks into my bedroom They had 3 babies this year I feel so happy ive helped them grow
I remember 30 years ago, in Orange County, California. I heard a bunch of crows caa-ing in my backyard. I realized it was my next door neighbors backyard. There were 100 crows that were sitting along this entire backyard fence, yelling at something. I looked over their fence and saw they had a husky pup, 8 months old probably and this pup had a big crow laying in front of him. The crow was alive but wasn't flying off. The pup only wanted to play with this crow. And I swear, there were crows coming by the flocks in every direction, coming to help with this one crow. It blew my mind, on how they can communicate with eachother, from so far away. 10 minutes later, there were 350 crows at my neighbors backyard. Incredible on how these crows all help eachother out. Great sounds by the way..
I had a crow who visited me every day for years. She introduced herself by meowing like a cat. I would feed her she trusted me but her mate would not and would stay in the trees and scorn me. Meow crow would eat right from my hand. Sadly she stopped coming and my guess is an owl may have had her. Birds are amazing gifts for our eyes and soul...
Just recently tried befriending the local crows by leaving peanuts when I walk in the morning. This morning they were waiting for me - made me really happy 💗
You can definitely build a relationship with them over time, but be patient. They are extremely wary, and if you try to rush it, they may not trust you at all. Just talk to them when you see them, even if it’s a simple, “hey guys, how are you doing?”. They definitely “know you”, and can distinguish you from “others”. I supply peanuts to two different groups that I see on a regular basis. One group, I only see on work days (four days per week). The other group, I see almost every day. The group I see daily, has learned the phrase “do you want some more?”, lol. They’ve also learned that if I move my arm while counting “one, two, three…”, I’m not trying to throw something at them to harm them, but tossing another peanut. I sip coffee each morning, sitting in my vehicle before starting my day. Sometimes, when I get out to go into the store, they’re still looking around to see if they’ve missed any peanuts. They’ll never let me get “too close”, but they don’t just fly off anymore. I’ll just say, “Hey buddy, do you want some more? When I come back out, I’ll give you some more.” Often, when I return… there will be a few more waiting there, and I’ll put out a second handful of peanuts. They recognize my vehicle as well. One morning, on one of my days off, I didn’t park in my usual spot, but somewhere nearby. I was sipping coffee, watching some RUclips, not paying much attention outside. One of the crows spotted me there, and began “buzzing” me, flying past my window and cawing to let me know that I forgot to put out the peanuts, lol.
@ yes, I’ve definitely been taking it slow. I started kinda clucking at them and talking a bit when I saw them, but I didn’t linger, just kept moving. Then later if I saw them I would let them see me throw some peanuts. I noticed that the congregated at the end of my road sometimes, so the next time I saw them there (when I mentioned they were waiting for me) I made sure they saw me throw the peanuts down and then I walked away, but I could hear them almost immediately fly down and start eating them. Since that day I don’t see them much, but I throw a handful down in the same spot every day at the same time, and they are always gone by my next pass by.
The Corvid family is indeed amazing. Some good friends in Europe years ago raised what I think was a female fledgling jackdaw. She became part of two families: her human one and the corvid one just outside. While visiting our friends we personally watched her regularly come and go by tapping on windows or the front door. She often bathed and ate at their table, even with us there (although her table manners left something to be desired). Interestingly, she had a strong attachment to one family member, and reportedly at times - especially early on - showed significant jealousy toward his wife. Whether connected or not, she never mated but was relied upon when grown to watch over other corvid babies if their parents were away. Her avian friends would often wait for her on the window ledges when she went inside, and our friends usually kept at least one window open upstairs so she could come and go whenever she wished - which she did often and not only to be fed. There were other amazing things about her life and communication with them as well, but our friends never indicated that any of this was the result of any intentional training. If I hadn’t seen it I wouldn’t have thought such behaviour possible. It’s no wonder that these birds have such a storied history in Europe.
I was feeding my chickens one morning and they were getting underfoot telling me to hurry up when a crow let out a single short caw. All the chickens raced for their house. I never saw anything, but there must have been a hawk or owl. Amazing.
My crow friends come to visit several times a day and occasionally leave us gifts. I return the favor of leaving a shiny trinket like a coin or key. The crows will fly along our truck as we turn down our street and pull into our driveway. They protect the squirrels from the neighborhood hawk and chase it away when it comes on our property. I leave crow bread, unsalted peanuts and cat food. They are larger than my cats. They are so highly intelligent and work as a unit to protect each other. We love watching them.
The crows in my neighborhood attack the squirrels and chase them. They also attack all the song birds and even the ducks. I used to have 2 ducks that would make a next and have babies but then the crows came along and terrorized and broke all their eggs finally the ducks stopped coming here. I've even see the crows dive bombing the rabbits. They will caw for hours driving me crazy.
Nice calls I also do calls crows halks doves song birds . Ben doing it over fifty years Thay talk back to me so cool and different tipes of owls. Crows and blue jays will warn you of danger. So cool
Once a big noreaster storm was predicted and "my crows" were cawing frantically in a way that I'd never heard. Went outside and the roof of this low industrial building in the middle of their turf was lined with seagulls. They weren't having it.
Our crows have some very erratic alarm calls and we know to pay attention. Once they and the jays got together and I thought it was corvid street fight but they were just trying to let me know there was a huge osprey with a half eaten pigeon on the driveway.
For years I worked right across the river from where I lived. I'd have to drive out of my neighborhood to get to the bridge to get there. Took about 15 minutes. One of the crows from my backyard would fly across the river in about 30 seconds, land on a light post in the parking lot and laugh at how long it took me. This went on for about a year.
I saw crows doing the coolest thing. I was camped at a festival site, it was a weekday when the festival was not on. I group of crows came to the stage. 2 onstage and a bunch in the audience. I could swear they were copying the human performance. The 2 onstage would talk back and forth then the "audience" would cackle ( laugh).
I have been acquainted with a flock of crows since 2012. We lived in a house a quarter mile from here when I first met them and I fed them peanuts in the Winter because there were 23 feet of snow that year and food was hard to come by. Since then, they regularly visit me. We moved to this house in 2016 and they followed along, regularly hanging out in my yard. When I see one I say "Hey crow" and they give me this quiet warble back. One of the old crows I call the Chicken Crow because will sit at the top of a tree and make brooding sounds like a chicken. When I walk my dog outside one or two of them will fly along, landing in trees and on telephone poles. Four years ago West Nile Virus took the flock down from 11 to just four. One of them was on the ground under one of my pines, unable to fly and starving. We caught it with a towel and took it to a local vet clinic. As I handed the bird over to the doctor, the crow looked straight into my eyes and I knew then that it knew it was dying but was grateful for what I'd done. Its flock continued to hang out around the pine for weeks and called every time I came out of the house. Still feel bad about it today. The flock has had chicks in the meantime and is back up to nine. The young ones know me, and aren't afraid of me.
I’ve been feeding crows my whole life. I always teach them to say “hello” and when I’m taking too long with my coffee, all you hear is “hello”. I know their calls to alert for stranger danger. They know the difference between my cats and the stray cats (both safe) but when something new saunters into my yard, they let me and the kitties know. Late last winter I was talking to a young crow and teaching him hello and the friggin young seagull learned 😂 . Seriously it’s on video! I’ve received pellets from them many times and I always love their gifts.
I am privileged to feed a crow trio every morning. When I come out the back door, I hear one calling to alert the others that the food lady is out. Lol. Now I understand better as to what they are saying with their calls. Thank you! There are two things I require in this life: the sound of the wind in the trees, and the call of the crow.
We had a rooster that would regularly communicate with the crows… And listen to the calls of the crows and respond accordingly with his hens. We were in Hawk, Eagle, snake country. They were always vigilant.
One day the crows in my neighborhood were calling like crazy, I looked around and there was an eagle eating a cat on my neighbor's lawn. I pay attention to the crows now.
3 crows lead me to my boy who was deep in the woods with his friend and his friends uncle who I felt was up to no good. True story. My boy who was about 8 years old Id say was like whoa mom, how did you find us... To this day the uncle is terrified of me. As he should be.
That's awesome! Throughout history, in most of the religions, crows and ravens were used for messages from higher beings or gods. Ravens helped feed Elijah when he was in the desert. A raven was actually the first bird that Noah sent out from the arc. Odin used crows to keep watch of what was going on in Miðgarður. Jesus references crows and ravens for several teaching moments. Morrigan could tranformed into a raven. So, the fact that the crows let you to something is actually really cool and in alignment with a lot of religious beliefs about crows being "messengers" as kind of their job for God/gods when they aren't just being normal crows.
When I lived on a river in the wilds of Alaska, if a raven was around (which was most of the time), I always knew when a bear was passing by in the woods out of sight. I could tell where the bear was and which direction it was walking by the movement of the raven's alarm calls. Helpers of the forest. Thank you for teaching on this.
My daughter is a crow enthusiast! She feeds them daily. They tell her one of the cats are coming up the steps and when one of the possums are headed her way. One day, about 3 of them followed her to work, she was on the bus. I told her to show em a hundred dollar bill and say " fetch"......thanks for tge vid😅
This is great! I've been a Crow Bro all my life, and some of this was new to me. So, thanks! There's no shortage of crows in the Seattle area (there's a Roost of 30,000 or so in Bothell, WA) and I have made a few friends over the years. I walk everywhere I go (or bus) and never leave the house without a Crow Snack in my backpack. I even had one who has brought younger siblings to meet me over a few years. Now there's a whole family group who sees me as a soft touch LOL.
Thank you for this video. Your imitation of the calls is very impressive. The "hi, I'm here, all is well" call of our crows becomes sort of background noise. But the "alarm" call goes on for a long time (as needed, i guess). One time when i heard them close to the house, i looked out to see a fox walking along the deck railing. I have the impression they warn everybody, not just each other. Another time, a crow sat on the railing yelling. I thought he wanted food, so i went out to give him peanuts, but he kept yelling. I recalled that a bear had been seen in the neighbourhood, so I said, "ok, I'll just go back in now". When I closed the door, he stopped the alarm call and, sure enough, there went the bear across the lawn. I'm pretty sure he said, "humans are so dense," before he flew away. Well, he took a couple of peanuts first!
Years ago the crows were going crazy for about 40 minutes. I stepped out of the house a couple of times to listen, noticing that they were gathered in a dead standing maple tree. Then suddenly.... Silence. I went back out to see a huge Great Horned Owl sitting at the top of the same tree! It was beautiful to see and hear the commotion, but I also knew they were warning of the incoming owl. Amazing.
I raised a crow from pin feathers and never put it in a cage. It rode my shoulder on the long walk to the bus stop and was there when I got off the bus end of the school day, went fishing with me and stayed on a chair in my room all night. Fantastic friend, very playful and smart. They make many sounds and my favorite is sounding like predator. It only said two recognizable words, mom and the call to get the cows to the barn.
A couple years ago, my husband and I were exploring some woods, that are rarely used. He would drive and I would get out and take pictures of flowers, plants, etc. well, my husband parked the truck, and walked down the road a bit to look at something. Out of nowhere, a crow came close to me and started yelling, at me. I talked to him, and he kept jumping from place to place, yelling. My husband came back, and the crow stopped. Told my husband about it, he said he could hear him. Then, my husband went to look at something else, and I went down to snap pictures of a waterfall. That crow was up the tree beside me, yelling at me. I decided to go back to the road and get my husband. The crow was quiet every time my husband was with me, but not if I was alone. I looked around and got nervous, and we decided to leave. I left the crow a piece of my sandwich, in which he took. It was a odd experience, and no one has been able to tell me, what was going on. Even though I believe he was warning me.
You are very welcome! Thank you for subscribing! I appreciate it! Well, crows have feelings like all other beings. I think people tend to forget that sometimes. So it was very important to mention that. No need to upset any crows for no reason. :) I'm glad you like my video! I'll have some more crow vids coming out soon.
@@LearnStuffWithÓnen I very much look forward to that. I have had some amazing Crow experiences and love that they give us messages to learn and know nature. Blessings!🪶
I've trained the crows in my town to come for food on the roof of my van. I might be parked and working in the back, when I'll hear one or two crows landing on my roof (I think they know I'm inside). So, I'll move up to the front seat, from which I can toss shelled peanuts or sunflower seeds onto the roof. On a few occasions when I've been away from the vehicle, I've come back and found two or three waiting on the roof for me.
Thank you so much. This has increased My knowledge of crow language quite a bit. I have five crows that chase away the hawks, bald eagles, and turkey vultures from harming my chickens. I called them watch crows. I’m very grateful to them!🧡🧡🐦⬛
I'm glad i was able to help out! Maybe you can make some connections between the caws and the environment and be able to see if certain calls mean certain dangers to the other animals.
Almost every time I walk to a certain area when I walk my dogs a crow does the structure call while he is sitting on a tree. The tree is right next to me and my dogs where my dogs go potty and the crow sits right above us. Then a crow at a more distant tree even higher calls back as if they are talking to each other. I'm not afraid because I love the crows and feel pretty safe. plus my dogs are on a leash so I know the birds will not try to fly away with my dogs. Next time I go out and I hear the crow do the structure call I will be happy to know that the crow is saying that me and my dogs are ok. Thank you for this information. From now on I will be more mindful of the sound of the crows.
I read a great book a few years ago, unfortunately I can’t remember the name of it, but it talked about how sophisticated culture really is. How their society is built. How they recognize people in situations. You think they’re just up there making a noise, but they are communicating a great deal to their other crow friends. Animals are so underrated by people. We think we are the only ones that think and feel but we are not.
I’ve noticed that a flock of crows sleep in the same tree every night. I used to feed them & they’d call to tell more of their friends. One time, there were 9 crows on top of my car. When I drove to another town, they’d follow me. I would test what types of foods that they like. I’ve noticed that they can’t see certain colors of food compared to other colors. They don’t like for you to watch them eat, so I look away. There is always a sentinel guard crow watching farther up in a tree to warn them. They wake up first every morning. Sparrows wake up second.
Very true! They seemed to be very attracted to blue foods I left out, but didn't like sugary foods, which was all the blue ones, unfortunately. My best friend crow buddy who used to let me come within petting distance (I wouldn't dare betray the trust) was very interested in raw meat. I used to get a pack of small ribs for like, $3, and would give him one or two a week. Those were his favorite. He was also a fan of raw chicken. Corn was also a favorite
I have been a fan of crows for many years and have told people that get annoyed by their calls how smart they are and how communal they are and if you just stop and listen to them, you can hear that they are communicating and then I get brushed off, so it's fun to find a fellow crow lover. Caaaw! Caw! Caw!
This was the first time I saw a video about crow calls. I always feed them leftovers and the caw like this guy does to invite others. I cannot caw but always yell caw caw caw up at them when I bring leftover food out. They are amazing to watch.
Had a visiting crow for about a year and a half. I had a particular whistle and he would hang in the trees and holler for me to come out and give a treat. We called him Malcolm and he visited for a year and a half, then gone. I look and call for him still.
Had a new lawnmower guy come to wander around my yard and give me a quote. Harry Crow (he's actually a Raven) was sitting up in next door's tree. Lawnmower guy started to cross the yard towards me, and Harry actually said QUITE A LOT; not cawing, more of a ruminative speech with a sad downturn at the end. It almost sounded like human speech, that lawnmower guy pulled up in shock and said "What the?" When lawnmower guy got closer, I asked him "Do you go hunting a lot?" and he said yes, and enthusiastically told me of some of his exploits. Yep. Message received, Harry. Birds know a whole lot more than humans realize. Harry's parents brought him into my yard during drought, when he was young; I've always got fresh water and dry dog food out that suits ravens and others; bird seed for the rest. This year, he came in with his wife and kids to show them off. Woman across the road from me puts out food for him regularly, but he still keeps an eye on my yard. He acts like a guardian, really; I'm in his territory. The noisy mynahs are the ones who keep an eye out for natural or other bird predators and let everyone know. I have over 22 different bird species at various times, and I saw a brand new (to me) one the other day. So 23 and counting.
That was really interesting. Now I know why the crows in my neighborhood make such a ruckus in the morning. They are checking in with each other, probably making sure everyone made it through the night safely. I enjoy watching them and the other birds too.
I'm old, I have been talking to crows for a long time. They are my favorite birds, they are amazing. I have posted, among other things, of a crow singing along with me (and my boom box) the chorus of "Time Has Come Today" by The Chambers Brothers. The song repeats "time" a lot. The song is playing and one of my crow pals joins in. After the first two times, he starts singing along, he knew exactly when the chorus was starting and pronouced TIME perfectly. I have seen the most amazing things. I used to live by a park. One day I notice that a lot of crows were gathering in a small hill that ended in a sidewalk and the road. By lot, I mean around 100. The hill was covered from top to bottom by them, they were being noisy. The two crows went to the edge of the sidewalk, and one began crowing. All the one in the hill went quiet. Then the second one took over, obviously I don't know what he was saying, just that as long as he "talked" the others were quiet. After about ten minutes, he stopped. Then the other crows started crowing and leaving. They are know to be intelligent, but that proved to me that they are way more intelligent that people think. Another thing I found out. In that same park one of the crows damaged a wing, so he could not fly. For the three years that I lived there after he was injured, the other crows took care of him. By that I mean year round, including in Minnesota winters. I'm 77 and still "talk" to them and they respond.
@@emeliealegonero4043 Get real, dumb person. As I mentioned the crow was singing along with me and a band from the before you were born. What does "re talking" even means. They are smarter than you. Let me guess you don't know how to speak German and I do, which means "you don't know what I am saying" if I talk to you in German. I love when stupid people say stupid things. LOL
@@carmenortiz5294 Im Glashaus sollte man nicht mit Steinen werfen. Was hat die Fähigkeit, Deutsch zu sprechen mit Intelligenz zu tun? Sich über grammatikalische Fehler anderer aufregen, aber selbst das Englische nicht richtig beherrschen? Sehr armselig. Alter allein erwirbt kein Recht auf schlechtes Benehmen. Mit schönem Gruß!
@@mahaliaheartburn9577 Perhaps if you read what she wrote, you will be able to understand. She expects from the crows what she herself CAN NOT DO. Which is: she does not understand other languages, but she expect crows to understand English. Did you have problem with her and my English?? German is one exaple, I could have said Spanish, Russia, etc. Next time try paying attention.
I was in the autumn woods today, in the foothills of Snowdonia, North Wales, where I live. I was sitting in a clearing with six ravens soaring around tree tops above me for over an hour, calling to one another and chasing one another around. I had someone crash into my car at the weekend. Being in the woods with the ravens, smelling the Autumn leaves, hearing the calls and watching them soar, was so healing.
I live in the center of Amsterdam; I have been feeding a pair of crows, jackdaws and magpies from my windowsill for a year now. I also work at a pub and take the leftovers of uneaten meat to give them. One day feeding them the fat from an entrecote steak, I noticed the crows making a kind of garbling noise, as if very excited. This seems to be their favourite, to the hamburgers, mealworms, grapes, berries, walnuts, peanuts and cat food. At the end of summer, I was sitting under a tree, in a park 20 min walk from my home, and I heard the same noise above me. I presume it was my windowsill crow being affectionate with me; luckily I brought peanuts and cherries. Lately, I noticed I will hear a crow caw when I am walking outdoors, when I look up a crow is sitting on a post as if to greet me. Perhaps I have bird madness, but I love the interaction with the wild, built on trust, letting go, living in the moment with no co-dependency, a valued friendship with no ties. That is freedom! Each moment shared a blessed and cherished memory.
Hi Ónen, Years ago, my spouse and I hiked most every weekend in Washington State. We learned to crow call in a way that *doesn't* hurt the throat. It's deeper down in the throat and can almost be called a 'gurgle' (a fast gurgle) with sound added. We first used the caw sounds to communicate with each other over distances. Then, we would also communicate with Ravens, using a lower toned, more guttural call. MANY of the crows we 'spoke' to remembered us. Years later, we hiked with our kids in the Colorado mountains north of Boulder, and communicated with three different ravens. They would always recognize us and fly close to see us. Around that same time, I worked at the IBM, Boulder site NE of Boulder where there were dozens of visiting crows. I had many a good 'conversation' with them. I have since moved away from that area, yet am still in Colorado. Every now and then, one of the crows to whom I used to 'speak' will recognize me and give me a very nice greeting. 'Cawing' should not hurt your throat. Use the very back of your throat/airway and make it vibrate/gurgle. Then add sound at the tone you prefer. You will like it much better, and find that you can carry on long conversations with our Corvid friends. PS, my colleagues at IBM thought that I was 'entertaining' when I would communicate with crows. One or two were certain that I was crazy. Crows are much more polite than that!! I am so glad that this video appeared in my feed. Happy 'cawing' to you.
I have been feeding a crow pair for over a year now. A month ago I had just brought my 2 small dogs in and heard 3 crows in different spots behind my house cawing what I now know was a warning call. A minute later a coyote was walking on top of my retaining wall looking around. I yelled at it, and it jumped off the wall away from my yard. It was something to see. Now I understand how to differentiate between the types of calls. Thank you
I am familiar with ravens. It is interesting the similarities in the calls to those of the native Americans woops and crys. I imagine most peoples had similar sounds long ago. Thanks to Natives, the spirit still lives.🔥
One came to me years ago. I think a female had helped him rehab because he had a bum foot. He would fly to my shoulder and eat from my hand. He was so smart and played games with sticks. He would steal my lighter. He stayed for 5 months and then disappeared. It was a week before our first drop in temps. I miss him
I watched this because my son has an idea to train crows to bring him coins. He lives in a large European city with clean air and all kinds of birds, water birds included. He has crows, ravens and magpies near him. He's a linguistics student, so this video isnright up his alley.
Crows and Jays are great alert animals. They will absolutely let you know if things are going on in the area if you listen. Where I am, the crows and jays harass the heck out of hawks. They will relentlessly harass hawks and chase them out of the area every time. I also noticed the crows will make a racket if they spot strangers in the area such as a visitor. Jays seem to mostly alert over predators here. Foxes, coyotes, hawks, etc. Just today the crows started making a racket around the time a delivery driver showed up to drop off groceries.
There was an elm outside the window where I usually sat to study. One day I heard a distressed commotion in it. A black cat was inching out the branch towards a sparrows' nest, and about five sparrows were dive bombing it to halt its advance -- unsuccessfully. After a minute one of the sparrows left dive bombing to the others, flew away, and returned quickly with two blue jays. The jays dive bombed the cat only once or twice, the cat kept inching forward between dives, and the jays flew away. But a few seconds later two crows arrived. They didn't dive at the cat; they lit on the branch between cat & nest, one about 18 inches in front of the cat and the other about a foot behind the first. I swear I heard the front one say, "Hi, kitty." (Not literally, but the body language & vibe were so clear that I might as well have.) And the kitty was like, "Oops! Sorry, wrong tree! My mistake! I was just leaving!" and proceeded to reverse its progress on the branch, reach the tree while inching backwards, and back down the trunk without taking its eyes off the crows, until it could safely jump and run. I always wondered how the jays advised the crows about the situation.
@@ejpmooBYou are correct, I was thinking about that too. But then again, maybe that little sparrow did the crows a favor in the past, so they came to help.👍💕🐦
I notice that crows will be totally silent when they suspect the food is really something special -- like pieces of hotdogs! They will try to act nonchalant, looking around to see if anyone notices them, and they'll refrain. But, when they think no one is watching, they'll hop over and take a couple of pieces, fly off and redistribute/hide them in a neighbor's gutter, detour back by pretending to arrive from somewhere else and then snag the rest of the pieces. It's as if someone has found bundles of $100 bills and is trying to keep quiet while he can get them all.
I worked as a maintenance guy for a state park. Every morning I threw a coffee can full of corn in the parking lot to the local crows. After a few years, they honored me by having a nest full of young-uns in the cedars across from the shop door. They are incredibly intelligent.
One time there were 2 ravens alarm-cawing & hovering a few feet above the city sidewalk. I ran over to check. They were trying to chase away a hawk that was piercing a pigeon’s back. I rescued the injured pigeon & drove to Jiffy Lube. It so happened that a mechanic there raised pigeons. I gave him the injured bird & a few weeks later, he told me that his pigeons had been feeding the injured pigeon.
The crows I feed get tiger prawns .Hot milk and cereal . Chocolate bars .butter tarts ..They love it Thanks for your information.. Now I will know if they are happy with their menu ..
I walk 2x daily. I’m always chatting with my neighborhood crows. Just yesterday I heard the ‘raptor alarm’ and watched 2 crows ‘escort’ the redwing hawk as if they were jet fighters. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. Now I definitely know what they’ve been saying, not just my lifelong assumption.
We paid attention to the crows when i worked at the golf course. a whole lot of them losing their crap all at once was either a coyote close by, or an owl. Since we were gardening, on our knees and concentrating, coyote alarms were good to know about; we had some large packs around and while they don't normally bother people, there have been rare exceptions.
I love crows and was blessed to have a Mom with a club foot and her baby who had white wing banding, which could only be seen when he took flight. I call him Whitey and he knows my voice. I had to stop feeding them because my neighbour complained but I still see them occasionally. I miss them.
I really like crows; I think they 're very nice birds and I try to be friendly toward them. I mean if I see them on the sidewalk I approach them at a slower pace so they have time to clear the way. But I do not recommend being aggressive toward them like someone I know did: He purposefully scared them away, and so they got revenge by one of them stealing his hat and flying away with it.
Enjoyed this video because I spend a lot of time in my backyard watching my feeders and keeping up with the daily lives of all the neighborhood birds. They're just out making a living and raising their families just like we are.
Crows in my yard have calls for "cat," "human," "hawk/owl," "good eats right here, come and get it," "you're sitting too close to me," and "fck off." (Leaving out the most annoying call of all, the baby squawking for food nonstop from dawn 'til dusk. Takes every once of willpower not to aim a hose at it, it's so friggin' loud.) Biggest, oldest crow is Gimpy with a wonky leg and he's produced brood after brood, the ladies all have a thing for him. I regularly see him sitting placidly on a wire with two females tenderly grooming him on either side. Dude has it goin' on.
Years ago, I was walking back to MIL's to collect my young son (had been to an appointment and took a bus); very busy road beside me, and got near a strip mall. Some guy was shoo-ing a young crow out of his store and it hid beneath an A-frame ad sign. I decided to see if I could rescue it; grabbed a clean towelling nappy from my bag, gently threw it over him, and carefully picked him up. Then looked up and around to see if a parent was handy. Parent crow was watching from the power lines. I made eye contact, then slowly walked around the back of the stores, happily there was a big tree back there and no cars coming in and out. Not really a car park. Waited for the parent crow to see what I was doing, from the tree branch above me, gently unwrapped the young one, and stepped away. Hoping it wouldn't be rejected because I'd handled it but it didn't seem so. Left them to it quietly.
Birds don't have a sense of smell, so that wouldn't have been a reason to reject its young. Crows are very smart. That mama or daddy crow knew you weren't going to hurt them or their babe. Thank you for doing that😊
Hi Onen. I live in Australia, anc have several crow friends. If my preffered breakky of a token amount of cat kibnke is late, they stomp around on the roof above my bedroom to wake me up, and if peckish mid afternoon, they stare in at me in hopeful fashion. Every now and then i remind them that they don't feed me. They are intelligent, fun friends. One teenager, adult size, was yelling at me in a demanding teenage crow manner. I yelled back in a mumsy: "Don't talk to me like that, manner". To my surpise, the crown in question softened its tone down completely, and sounded like it was whispering sweet nothings to me. It was then that I understood how intelligent they really are. Every morning i whistle them up for breakky, and a pair of local mynas hang out as well. I live upstairs, and my balcony in my backyard complete with bords and birdsong.
Cool. Yesterday I had a crow fly low over me while I was walking down a remote northern-Canadian gravel road. He checked me out, and was making a calm, 2-part repeating musical call. Love the crows and Ravens up here.
Have enjoyed my crows for sometime. Instead of their typical five caw response I taught them to caw three times when I am around. Was with family in the yard and heard one mimic our conversation too. They love peanuts in the shell... a treat I give them every now and then. They are endearing.
I watched one morning as a crow was being attacked by a hawk. It was squawking loudly, as it turned out it was calling for help. Within a minute or so around 6 other crows came flying to the rescue, actually bombing the hawk and trying to peck it. Overwhelmed the raptor soon got the hell out of Dodge. This was way back before every phone had a video camera, unfortunately.
I have seen fights between crows and bald eagles (who love to steal & eat chicks out of nests!). And as big and mean as a bald eagle is, the crows had it flying for its life after a good beatdown!
Dude I just realized yesterday that I totally can understand the crows and based on their calls I knew there was a stray cat in the area and then low and behold here came a tom cat just strutting on by. Thank you for giving me way more insight on their calls.
@@LearnStuffWithÓnenThis was a great video! The crows or ravens I see in the West San Gabriel Valley (near Los Angeles) frequently make clicking or grinding noises. I've always wondered what those mean.
What I really like about crow calls is not so much sounding like a typical call but when a group of them are together sometimes they have a conversation between themselves using quite a number of vocal ranges in a talking kind of voice. Great call voice you have! I think it would ruin my vocal cords if I put that much impetus into creating that voice.
Hello. I'm native american living on my reservation in N. Wisc. There are many ravens here, also crows. They have learned traffic patterns. If bird is on a road, it will hop to the opposite lane out of the traveler's lane until you pass. Also, there was an actual incident when a crow "crouched" in the ctr of a lane until my pickup trk passed over it. I was amazed. In rearview, he was okay & just kept pecking at a crushed frog. Ravens have superb vision & can see you thru the windows & can actually see the motion of your eyeball & eyelashes when you are looking at them. This makes them nervous & they'll usually leave. I toss out leftover pancake pcs, they luv em. In our language, the raven is "Andek". It is my spirit bird. Your videos are very good, thx.
That is really cool! I appreciate your info! I knew they could tell when they were being watched but I didn't know it went that deep. That's really cool!
And thanks for the language part! I love languages! If you don't mind me asking, what nation are you with?
@@peziki crow got lucky cuz some evil punks try to hit animals. Crow was smart but took a risk because people do not have it's honor 🙏
Thank you for sharing this 🤗
I love crows❤️
They’re so intelligent that it blows my mind!!!
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I’ve been told a few times that they never forget a face or a wrong that has been done to them?? Also they don’t forget a kindness???
I wonder if that’s true???
I would love to believe that it is❤️🕊
Please stay off the alcohol. It's not worth losing your freedom and self worth. Good luck to you.😊
My favorite is when they 'mumble' a low, fluttering gibberish.
It really sounds like they're talking, questioning, even.
There's also 'clucking' noises that we make to each other, with various tongue clicks, etc.
I was playing Pokemon Go in a parking lot and all the crows suddenly went nuts. I look up turn around and there is a bobcat 3 feet behind me approaching me. I thought it was a Labrador dog it was that big. Thank you crows
Sure you weren't playing 'Angry Birds'?
There was a crow near the station in my town that wasnt able to fly anymore. ( i regularly feed birds there) First i saw it sitting on top of cars, days later it was sitting on a fence in the rain late at night. I stayed with it and phoned animal rescue that caught it. The crow looked very angry at me. 2 month later i was at the same place, and a crow came flying towards me and landed 6 feet from me and looked up. I immediately knew this was the crow that couldnt fly anymore, they managed to heal the bird. Two weeks later i was walking the area across the road. Again a crow comes flying to me and lands few feet from me (not their normal behaviour) and few seconds later another crow lands aside the other. It came proudly showing its youngster. Great experience of thankfulness, showing how smart and social these birds are.
My crow has learned how to say "helloo" he's awsome ,I just love him.😊
Crows are very intelligent. I had found a baby vrow under a tree. It just started to get a few wing feathers and still had just tuff on its head. I took it home and put it in a my room in a nest I made out of a towel. I got some worms and ground them up and then with a little water mixed it. The took a eye dropper and sucked up the ground up worm. And when I went to the baby crow it lifted its head and opened it mouth and I slowly squeezed the eye dropper full of the worms. And kept feeding him till he stopped wanting any more. I had gotten plenty of worms digging them up and had them in dirt also in my home. Any time the baby opened its mouth I fed it including when I took it to work with me. It then as it got older but it dtill could not fly. I would take it outside and had a small aluminum pan with water and it would hop in and splash itself. Then I would wipe it off. I would then hide from it. And the minute it could not see me would be squaking. And then see me running to me flapoing its wings. I then put it on my shoulder but it would crap on my shoulder so I took it off my shoulder cleaned the crap off. But after only 3 times of it crapping on me and then me grabbing it to take off of me. It did not crap on me anymore. When it would crap it would lean way back and crap so the crap would go to the ground. At night while in my bed I had it sitting on my stomach and would with one of my fingers would gently stroke its head and it eyes would close. But the minute I stopped its eyes open and it would peck me not real hard so I would keep patting it with my finger. But a friend came over. I had him in a big cage because it still could not fly but was getting there as I would raise it up on my hand up and down to strengthen its wings. My friend sticks his finger in the cage and the crow pecked him hard and cause his finger to bleed a little. My friend said look what it did. I said maybe you should not stick your finger in his cage it doesn't know you. It was one of the many what are called wild animals I had the privilege to know and interact with. For me its different for me then a dog or a cat. Because eventually in the crows case it could fly and live back in the wild. Other animals I have befriended they came buy on occasion to visit but then after we interacted for a few hours or the day off they went living as wild animals do. Then eventually show up again and again. I have interacted with 8 different wild animals in my life. It is the best part of my life. I would rather spend my time with wild animals then going on a cruise or anything else. I never had children. But see the wild animals as my children. You interact with your children. They get older and leave the home. And on occasion come back home to visit for awhile and leave again and your love for them never changes. Same is gor me and the animals.
after about a year of attempted friendship, my neighborhood crows (crowmies, if you will?) visit me every morning. thank you for making this video ♡
That's awesome! I had that at my old location. My newer location is proving to be a little more difficult due to neighborhood situations like children, bluejays, and mockingbirds. But I'm hoping to reestablish what you've got. Glad you have lots of crowmies lol :)
@@LearnStuffWithÓnen i have definitely noticed that crows behave totally differently in different areas. when i’m traveling i’m often struck by how friendly and trusting the crows are (and the hilarious unique things they do!) you have definitely inspired me to document what they do in my neighborhood!
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I have a raven friend that visits me both at my home AND at the stadium I work at... do crows croak too? Or is that just ravens?
@@cassandramichellecoachingIf you witness crows attacking, picking apart the outside of a house, or dive bombing people you know bad people live there. Crows only dive bomb mean people repeated university studies have shown. The studies are online possibly here on YT.
So cool! I'm gonna try it!
This vid is awesome. I have lots of pines in the yard, where crows often group together. A few days after my beloved dog passed away, one crow sat near my home and perfectly imitated my dog's unique barking pattern. I took it as a sign that he was still close in spirit.
Thanks. I love humans with an animal spirit inside.
Thank you so much :)
American crows sound a lot different to our crows, in the UK.
I was outside today, working on my son's classic motorcycle. The friendly resident crow pair were calling out that there was a Raven somewhere. Four other crows turned up, a few minutes later and they headed off across the fields. 10 minutes later, a Raven could be heard amongst all the crow scalding.
I know the local crow calls for:
"Warning, Raven".
"Warning, Fox".
"Warning, Buzzard".
"I've found food". (Totally different to the American crow impression).
"Hello friend". (They used to call down to our pet crow and also us, because we feed them).
"I'm miserable". (A pitiful groaning sound).
"I'm angry". (An unmistakable sound and behaviour).
"I want / demand food". (Our pet crow would repeatedly yell "Wahhhhh Wharrrrl" and also throw a tantrum, if we were late with her food).
"I want to be a friend". (Head down in the chest and making a "Hooing" sound. Our pet crow would do this to visitors. I've had a wild crow do this to me, too).
"I want affection". (Our pet crow made this call whenever petting was desired).
"I'm over here". (Response call, on hearing the call below. The responding crow's identification is given on the tail end of the reply).
"Is anyone out there??" (General broadcast call to other crows in the local murder. Our pet crow would also yell this whilst sat on my arm).
"Go away / bugger off / shoo". (One of the local wild crow pair really hates pidgeons, wood pidgeons and doves. It will swoop on, close fly and attack them).
"Parliament summoning". (The local murder held a parliament in a tree in the field adjoining our garden, to decide the fate of a adolescent crow that had attacked our blind pet crow. Other local crows came to our pet crow's aid and drove it off. The next day they summoned a parliament and I had to stand with our pet crow on my arm, near the tree, whilst she addressed the parliament for a few minutes. The end result, after 15 to 20 minutes of all the attending crows saying their piece, was that the rogue crow was expelled and chased away from the territory. We never saw it again. I'm probably the only human to have ever been allowed to attend a crow parliament).
We had a wild born blinded adult crow, Blackie, as a family member, for just over 10 years. She was already around 3 years old when I found her. She used to communicate with us in crow language and miming to us. It learnt to understand English, but never actually talked.
Wow. if u wrote a book I'd read it.
@@Horseluvver I agree, I would too
Such good information, You need to write a detailed book like this
Wow! Thank you. Im always trying to better understand the crows around my home.
Wow! How fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing. Thats amazing how much of their language you picked up. And the parliament meeting must have been an honor and humbling to experience and to know your local crows had your crow’s back. ❤
Dude I'm cracking up my cat is laying at the bottom of the bed while I'm watching this you made your crow calls and now my cat's up here at the speaker trying to figure out where the crow is at oh my God how funny is that and now he's looking out the window I'm laughing my goddamn ass off dude good crow calls
Great video, I have been hanging with a local flock here in San Diego for about 2 years now. They’re phenomenal and I pay attention and benefit from understanding there calls. They have helped protect me from a close encounter with a coyote .. when I was trying handle my dog and hold him back from continued lunging at the coyote , almost about to loose grip on his leash … the crow called in the troops to fly in and they dive bombed one by one the coyote running him off and after they flew over me until I got to my house! It was so incredibly special
wow that so aazing and cool
Nice story.
Thanks
How's no one gonna mention how amazing his caws are??? 🤔
Yes, they are. I'm in UK, and our crows sound totally different. By that, I mean U.S crows sound like a mix of our crows and ravens. Definitely a difference!
Amazing calls
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@@needsbidet Yes!!! Most definitely!!!
During lockdown I made friends with my local urban crows UK! They come and see me dawn & dusk! Even bring the family member now, including fledglings! I call a name & they call back! Taught them to bounce! It's a different sound calling to me from their normal "crow speak" One day I walked down to the corner shop, didn't realise I was being watched by them. On the walk home he started his alert call & swooped down behind me, in-between & towards a man stalking me! Bloke ran off & I thanked my crow friend, he then flew house top to house top until I got home! I just adore them!
That's an awesome story! :)
How did you make friends with them?
Our Ravens and Crows are like family. Once upon a time, when I had a new puppy outside to potty train, a Crow started calling a sharp alarm and soaring from one tree towards another several times. When I finally saw the Golden Eagle sitting in the tree the Crow was swooping at I waved and called 'I see it, thank you!'. The Crow then flew off toward a mountain without another call. It may have been a Raven because we have both species here but I seem to remember it flapped like a Crow. Needless to say, I never left my puppy unattended.
I have "Watcher" Ravens in my trees. They guard while youngsters eat and learn to fly....
I have a family of crows
🐦⬛ 🐦⬛
That live near me
In a huge long leaf pine
Ive been feeding them every day for a decade now
Peanuts in shells
Fruit nut seeds
Healthy dog type treats they like
Oatmeal leftover
They call me every am to come out put food
! Loll
He sits on roof that looks into my bedroom
They had 3 babies this year
I feel so happy ive helped them grow
I remember 30 years ago, in Orange County, California. I heard a bunch of crows caa-ing in my backyard. I realized it was my next door neighbors backyard. There were 100 crows that were sitting along this entire backyard fence, yelling at something. I looked over their fence and saw they had a husky pup, 8 months old probably and this pup had a big crow laying in front of him. The crow was alive but wasn't flying off. The pup only wanted to play with this crow. And I swear, there were crows coming by the flocks in every direction, coming to help with this one crow. It blew my mind, on how they can communicate with eachother, from so far away. 10 minutes later, there were 350 crows at my neighbors backyard. Incredible on how these crows all help eachother out. Great sounds by the way..
Wow, impressive crow calls!
I had a crow who visited me every day for years. She introduced herself by meowing like a cat.
I would feed her she trusted me but her mate would not and would stay in the trees and scorn me.
Meow crow would eat right from my hand. Sadly she stopped coming and my guess is an owl may have had her.
Birds are amazing gifts for our eyes and soul...
Just recently tried befriending the local crows by leaving peanuts when I walk in the morning. This morning they were waiting for me - made me really happy 💗
You can definitely build a relationship with them over time, but be patient. They are extremely wary, and if you try to rush it, they may not trust you at all.
Just talk to them when you see them, even if it’s a simple, “hey guys, how are you doing?”. They definitely “know you”, and can distinguish you from “others”.
I supply peanuts to two different groups that I see on a regular basis.
One group, I only see on work days (four days per week).
The other group, I see almost every day.
The group I see daily, has learned the phrase “do you want some more?”, lol.
They’ve also learned that if I move my arm while counting “one, two, three…”, I’m not trying to throw something at them to harm them, but tossing another peanut.
I sip coffee each morning, sitting in my vehicle before starting my day.
Sometimes, when I get out to go into the store, they’re still looking around to see if they’ve missed any peanuts.
They’ll never let me get “too close”, but they don’t just fly off anymore.
I’ll just say, “Hey buddy, do you want some more? When I come back out, I’ll give you some more.”
Often, when I return… there will be a few more waiting there, and I’ll put out a second handful of peanuts.
They recognize my vehicle as well.
One morning, on one of my days off, I didn’t park in my usual spot, but somewhere nearby.
I was sipping coffee, watching some RUclips, not paying much attention outside.
One of the crows spotted me there, and began “buzzing” me, flying past my window and cawing to let me know that I forgot to put out the peanuts, lol.
@ yes, I’ve definitely been taking it slow. I started kinda clucking at them and talking a bit when I saw them, but I didn’t linger, just kept moving. Then later if I saw them I would let them see me throw some peanuts. I noticed that the congregated at the end of my road sometimes, so the next time I saw them there (when I mentioned they were waiting for me) I made sure they saw me throw the peanuts down and then I walked away, but I could hear them almost immediately fly down and start eating them. Since that day I don’t see them much, but I throw a handful down in the same spot every day at the same time, and they are always gone by my next pass by.
The Corvid family is indeed amazing. Some good friends in Europe years ago raised what I think was a female fledgling jackdaw. She became part of two families: her human one and the corvid one just outside. While visiting our friends we personally watched her regularly come and go by tapping on windows or the front door. She often bathed and ate at their table, even with us there (although her table manners left something to be desired). Interestingly, she had a strong attachment to one family member, and reportedly at times - especially early on - showed significant jealousy toward his wife. Whether connected or not, she never mated but was relied upon when grown to watch over other corvid babies if their parents were away. Her avian friends would often wait for her on the window ledges when she went inside, and our friends usually kept at least one window open upstairs so she could come and go whenever she wished - which she did often and not only to be fed. There were other amazing things about her life and communication with them as well, but our friends never indicated that any of this was the result of any intentional training. If I hadn’t seen it I wouldn’t have thought such behaviour possible. It’s no wonder that these birds have such a storied history in Europe.
I was feeding my chickens one morning and they were getting underfoot telling me to hurry up when a crow let out a single short caw. All the chickens raced for their house. I never saw anything, but there must have been a hawk or owl. Amazing.
My crow friends come to visit several times a day and occasionally leave us gifts. I return the favor of leaving a shiny trinket like a coin or key. The crows will fly along our truck as we turn down our street and pull into our driveway. They protect the squirrels from the neighborhood hawk and chase it away when it comes on our property. I leave crow bread, unsalted peanuts and cat food. They are larger than my cats. They are so highly intelligent and work as a unit to protect each other. We love watching them.
The crows in my neighborhood attack the squirrels and chase them. They also attack all the song birds and even the ducks. I used to have 2 ducks that would make a next and have babies but then the crows came along and terrorized and broke all their eggs finally the ducks stopped coming here. I've even see the crows dive bombing the rabbits. They will caw for hours driving me crazy.
I have been talking to crows for many years. They are very smart.
Your caws are excellent❤
Nice calls I also do calls crows halks doves song birds . Ben doing it over fifty years Thay talk back to me so cool and different tipes of owls. Crows and blue jays will warn you of danger. So cool
Once a big noreaster storm was predicted and "my crows" were cawing frantically in a way that I'd never heard. Went outside and the roof of this low industrial building in the middle of their turf was lined with seagulls. They weren't having it.
Our crows have some very erratic alarm calls and we know to pay attention. Once they and the jays got together and I thought it was corvid street fight but they were just trying to let me know there was a huge osprey with a half eaten pigeon on the driveway.
For years I worked right across the river from where I lived. I'd have to drive out of my neighborhood to get to the bridge to get there. Took about 15 minutes. One of the crows from my backyard would fly across the river in about 30 seconds, land on a light post in the parking lot and laugh at how long it took me. This went on for about a year.
I saw crows doing the coolest thing. I was camped at a festival site, it was a weekday when the festival was not on. I group of crows came to the stage. 2 onstage and a bunch in the audience. I could swear they were copying the human performance. The 2 onstage would talk back and forth then the "audience" would cackle ( laugh).
I have been acquainted with a flock of crows since 2012. We lived in a house a quarter mile from here when I first met them and I fed them peanuts in the Winter because there were 23 feet of snow that year and food was hard to come by. Since then, they regularly visit me. We moved to this house in 2016 and they followed along, regularly hanging out in my yard. When I see one I say "Hey crow" and they give me this quiet warble back. One of the old crows I call the Chicken Crow because will sit at the top of a tree and make brooding sounds like a chicken. When I walk my dog outside one or two of them will fly along, landing in trees and on telephone poles.
Four years ago West Nile Virus took the flock down from 11 to just four. One of them was on the ground under one of my pines, unable to fly and starving. We caught it with a towel and took it to a local vet clinic. As I handed the bird over to the doctor, the crow looked straight into my eyes and I knew then that it knew it was dying but was grateful for what I'd done. Its flock continued to hang out around the pine for weeks and called every time I came out of the house. Still feel bad about it today.
The flock has had chicks in the meantime and is back up to nine. The young ones know me, and aren't afraid of me.
I’ve been feeding crows my whole life. I always teach them to say “hello” and when I’m taking too long with my coffee, all you hear is “hello”. I know their calls to alert for stranger danger. They know the difference between my cats and the stray cats (both safe) but when something new saunters into my yard, they let me and the kitties know. Late last winter I was talking to a young crow and teaching him hello and the friggin young seagull learned 😂 . Seriously it’s on video! I’ve received pellets from them many times and I always love their gifts.
I am privileged to feed a crow trio every morning. When I come out the back door, I hear one calling to alert the others that the food lady is out. Lol. Now I understand better as to what they are saying with their calls. Thank you!
There are two things I require in this life: the sound of the wind in the trees, and the call of the crow.
I want a crow friend!
@JerseyLynne Like most birds, crows make wonderful friends.
We had a rooster that would regularly communicate with the crows… And listen to the calls of the crows and respond accordingly with his hens. We were in Hawk, Eagle, snake country. They were always vigilant.
Awesome crow call, magnificent birds. Thank you
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Thank you very much!
One day the crows in my neighborhood were calling like crazy, I looked around and there was an eagle eating a cat on my neighbor's lawn. I pay attention to the crows now.
Geez!! That's crazy!
I have come to the edge of the internet and I couldn't be happier. I am listening to a guy Crow in his car and it's fascinating
Haha well I'm glad you found me! :)
Thank you for watching! I'll have more crow videos coming soon.
1:50 😂😂😂My gods I was not expecting that to come out there. The tone is perfect. Bro knows how to crow.
Thank you! :)
3 crows lead me to my boy who was deep in the woods with his friend and his friends uncle who I felt was up to no good. True story. My boy who was about 8 years old Id say was like whoa mom, how did you find us...
To this day the uncle is terrified of me. As he should be.
That's awesome! Throughout history, in most of the religions, crows and ravens were used for messages from higher beings or gods. Ravens helped feed Elijah when he was in the desert. A raven was actually the first bird that Noah sent out from the arc. Odin used crows to keep watch of what was going on in Miðgarður. Jesus references crows and ravens for several teaching moments. Morrigan could tranformed into a raven. So, the fact that the crows let you to something is actually really cool and in alignment with a lot of religious beliefs about crows being "messengers" as kind of their job for God/gods when they aren't just being normal crows.
When I lived on a river in the wilds of Alaska, if a raven was around (which was most of the time), I always knew when a bear was passing by in the woods out of sight. I could tell where the bear was and which direction it was walking by the movement of the raven's alarm calls. Helpers of the forest.
Thank you for teaching on this.
How interesting!
That's awesome! Yes, the certainly are guardians. If you can attune to it, they'll tell you a lot.
🎉crows are so cool!
My daughter is a crow enthusiast! She feeds them daily. They tell her one of the cats are coming up the steps and when one of the possums are headed her way. One day, about 3 of them followed her to work, she was on the bus. I told her to show em a hundred dollar bill and say " fetch"......thanks for tge vid😅
This is great! I've been a Crow Bro all my life, and some of this was new to me. So, thanks! There's no shortage of crows in the Seattle area (there's a Roost of 30,000 or so in Bothell, WA) and I have made a few friends over the years.
I walk everywhere I go (or bus) and never leave the house without a Crow Snack in my backpack. I even had one who has brought younger siblings to meet me over a few years. Now there's a whole family group who sees me as a soft touch LOL.
Thank you for this video. Your imitation of the calls is very impressive. The "hi, I'm here, all is well" call of our crows becomes sort of background noise. But the "alarm" call goes on for a long time (as needed, i guess). One time when i heard them close to the house, i looked out to see a fox walking along the deck railing. I have the impression they warn everybody, not just each other. Another time, a crow sat on the railing yelling. I thought he wanted food, so i went out to give him peanuts, but he kept yelling. I recalled that a bear had been seen in the neighbourhood, so I said, "ok, I'll just go back in now". When I closed the door, he stopped the alarm call and, sure enough, there went the bear across the lawn. I'm pretty sure he said, "humans are so dense," before he flew away. Well, he took a couple of peanuts first!
Oh yes for sure the other animals listen for the crows for safety too. Also they listen to the alarm calls of bluejays and Chickadees.
Years ago the crows were going crazy for about 40 minutes. I stepped out of the house a couple of times to listen, noticing that they were gathered in a dead standing maple tree.
Then suddenly.... Silence.
I went back out to see a huge Great Horned Owl sitting at the top of the same tree!
It was beautiful to see and hear the commotion, but I also knew they were warning of the incoming owl.
Amazing.
I raised a crow from pin feathers and never put it in a cage. It rode my shoulder on the long walk to the bus stop and was there when I got off the bus end of the school day, went fishing with me and stayed on a chair in my room all night. Fantastic friend, very playful and smart. They make many sounds and my favorite is sounding like predator. It only said two recognizable words, mom and the call to get the cows to the barn.
A couple years ago, my husband and I were exploring some woods, that are rarely used. He would drive and I would get out and take pictures of flowers, plants, etc. well, my husband parked the truck, and walked down the road a bit to look at something. Out of nowhere, a crow came close to me and started yelling, at me. I talked to him, and he kept jumping from place to place, yelling. My husband came back, and the crow stopped. Told my husband about it, he said he could hear him. Then, my husband went to look at something else, and I went down to snap pictures of a waterfall. That crow was up the tree beside me, yelling at me. I decided to go back to the road and get my husband. The crow was quiet every time my husband was with me, but not if I was alone. I looked around and got nervous, and we decided to leave. I left the crow a piece of my sandwich, in which he took. It was a odd experience, and no one has been able to tell me, what was going on. Even though I believe he was warning me.
I have always been fascinated by crows. They’re my favorite bird. You sound just like them 😊
Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)
This is an important video........... when you said that you did not want to mislead them, i subscribed. thanks
Yeah i thought that was awesome too.
You are very welcome! Thank you for subscribing! I appreciate it!
Well, crows have feelings like all other beings. I think people tend to forget that sometimes. So it was very important to mention that. No need to upset any crows for no reason. :)
I'm glad you like my video! I'll have some more crow vids coming out soon.
@@LearnStuffWithÓnen I very much look forward to that. I have had some amazing Crow experiences and love that they give us messages to learn and know nature. Blessings!🪶
I've trained the crows in my town to come for food on the roof of my van. I might be parked and working in the back, when I'll hear one or two crows landing on my roof (I think they know I'm inside). So, I'll move up to the front seat, from which I can toss shelled peanuts or sunflower seeds onto the roof. On a few occasions when I've been away from the vehicle, I've come back and found two or three waiting on the roof for me.
Thank you so much. This has increased My knowledge of crow language quite a bit.
I have five crows that chase away the hawks, bald eagles, and turkey vultures from harming my chickens.
I called them watch crows. I’m very grateful to them!🧡🧡🐦⬛
I'm glad i was able to help out! Maybe you can make some connections between the caws and the environment and be able to see if certain calls mean certain dangers to the other animals.
Almost every time I walk to a certain area when I walk my dogs a crow does the structure call while he is sitting on a tree. The tree is right next to me and my dogs where my dogs go potty and the crow sits right above us. Then a crow at a more distant tree even higher calls back as if they are talking to each other. I'm not afraid because I love the crows and feel pretty safe. plus my dogs are on a leash so I know the birds will not try to fly away with my dogs. Next time I go out and I hear the crow do the structure call I will be happy to know that the crow is saying that me and my dogs are ok. Thank you for this information. From now on I will be more mindful of the sound of the crows.
I read a great book a few years ago, unfortunately I can’t remember the name of it, but it talked about how sophisticated culture really is. How their society is built. How they recognize people in situations. You think they’re just up there making a noise, but they are communicating a great deal to their other crow friends. Animals are so underrated by people. We think we are the only ones that think and feel but we are not.
I’ve noticed that a flock of crows sleep in the same tree every night. I used to feed them & they’d call to tell more of their friends. One time, there were 9 crows on top of my car. When I drove to another town, they’d follow me. I would test what types of foods that they like. I’ve noticed that they can’t see certain colors of food compared to other colors. They don’t like for you to watch them eat, so I look away. There is always a sentinel guard crow watching farther up in a tree to warn them. They wake up first every morning. Sparrows wake up second.
Very true! They seemed to be very attracted to blue foods I left out, but didn't like sugary foods, which was all the blue ones, unfortunately. My best friend crow buddy who used to let me come within petting distance (I wouldn't dare betray the trust) was very interested in raw meat. I used to get a pack of small ribs for like, $3, and would give him one or two a week. Those were his favorite. He was also a fan of raw chicken. Corn was also a favorite
I have been a fan of crows for many years and have told people that get annoyed by their calls how smart they are and how communal they are and if you just stop and listen to them, you can hear that they are communicating and then I get brushed off, so it's fun to find a fellow crow lover. Caaaw! Caw! Caw!
This was the first time I saw a video about crow calls. I always feed them leftovers and the caw like this guy does to invite others. I cannot caw but always yell caw caw caw up at them when I bring leftover food out. They are amazing to watch.
Oh yes!!! They are very smart!!!
I like my cawing little friends 🥰
Had a visiting crow for about a year and a half. I had a particular whistle and he would hang in the trees and holler for me to come out and give a treat. We called him Malcolm and he visited for a year and a half, then gone. I look and call for him still.
We have a “Hello” crow. He always says ‘Hello, Hello!”
We have one of those too!
I love watching the crows when the ravens show up and they eat together. It shows the massive size difference
Had a new lawnmower guy come to wander around my yard and give me a quote. Harry Crow (he's actually a Raven) was sitting up in next door's tree. Lawnmower guy started to cross the yard towards me, and Harry actually said QUITE A LOT; not cawing, more of a ruminative speech with a sad downturn at the end. It almost sounded like human speech, that lawnmower guy pulled up in shock and said "What the?" When lawnmower guy got closer, I asked him "Do you go hunting a lot?" and he said yes, and enthusiastically told me of some of his exploits. Yep. Message received, Harry. Birds know a whole lot more than humans realize. Harry's parents brought him into my yard during drought, when he was young; I've always got fresh water and dry dog food out that suits ravens and others; bird seed for the rest. This year, he came in with his wife and kids to show them off. Woman across the road from me puts out food for him regularly, but he still keeps an eye on my yard. He acts like a guardian, really; I'm in his territory. The noisy mynahs are the ones who keep an eye out for natural or other bird predators and let everyone know. I have over 22 different bird species at various times, and I saw a brand new (to me) one the other day. So 23 and counting.
That was really interesting. Now I know why the crows in my neighborhood make such a ruckus in the morning. They are checking in with each other, probably making sure everyone made it through the night safely. I enjoy watching them and the other birds too.
I'm old, I have been talking to crows for a long time. They are my favorite birds, they are amazing. I have posted, among other things, of a crow singing along with me (and my boom box) the chorus of "Time Has Come Today" by The Chambers Brothers. The song repeats "time" a lot. The song is playing and one of my crow pals joins in. After the first two times, he starts singing along, he knew exactly when the chorus was starting and pronouced TIME perfectly. I have seen the most amazing things. I used to live by a park. One day I notice that a lot of crows were gathering in a small hill that ended in a sidewalk and the road. By lot, I mean around 100. The hill was covered from top to bottom by them, they were being noisy. The two crows went to the edge of the sidewalk, and one began crowing. All the one in the hill went quiet. Then the second one took over, obviously I don't know what he was saying, just that as long as he "talked" the others were quiet. After about ten minutes, he stopped. Then the other crows started crowing and leaving. They are know to be intelligent, but that proved to me that they are way more intelligent that people think. Another thing I found out. In that same park one of the crows damaged a wing, so he could not fly. For the three years that I lived there after he was injured, the other crows took care of him. By that I mean year round, including in Minnesota winters. I'm 77 and still "talk" to them and they respond.
Kept talking to them and hoping some day you will understand a word what the hell they re talking is all about
@@emeliealegonero4043 Get real, dumb person. As I mentioned the crow was singing along with me and a band from the before you were born. What does "re talking" even means. They are smarter than you. Let me guess you don't know how to speak German and I do, which means "you don't know what I am saying" if I talk to you in German. I love when stupid people say stupid things. LOL
@@emeliealegonero4043 I understand them fine, did you learn German so we can talk.
@@carmenortiz5294 Im Glashaus sollte man nicht mit Steinen werfen.
Was hat die Fähigkeit, Deutsch zu sprechen mit Intelligenz zu tun?
Sich über grammatikalische Fehler anderer aufregen, aber selbst das Englische nicht richtig beherrschen?
Sehr armselig. Alter allein erwirbt kein Recht auf schlechtes Benehmen.
Mit schönem Gruß!
@@mahaliaheartburn9577 Perhaps if you read what she wrote, you will be able to understand. She expects from the crows what she herself CAN NOT DO. Which is: she does not understand other languages, but she expect crows to understand English. Did you have problem with her and my English?? German is one exaple, I could have said Spanish, Russia, etc. Next time try paying attention.
My friend had a crow that talked and he followed me on my horse then went back home. He was smart and cute ❤
I was in the autumn woods today, in the foothills of Snowdonia, North Wales, where I live. I was sitting in a clearing with six ravens soaring around tree tops above me for over an hour, calling to one another and chasing one another around. I had someone crash into my car at the weekend. Being in the woods with the ravens, smelling the Autumn leaves, hearing the calls and watching them soar, was so healing.
The Crow Whisperer... awesome! ❤️❤️❤️🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛
I live in the center of Amsterdam; I have been feeding a pair of crows, jackdaws and magpies from my windowsill for a year now. I also work at a pub and take the leftovers of uneaten meat to give them. One day feeding them the fat from an entrecote steak, I noticed the crows making a kind of garbling noise, as if very excited. This seems to be their favourite, to the hamburgers, mealworms, grapes, berries, walnuts, peanuts and cat food.
At the end of summer, I was sitting under a tree, in a park 20 min walk from my home, and I heard the same noise above me. I presume it was my windowsill crow being affectionate with me; luckily I brought peanuts and cherries.
Lately, I noticed I will hear a crow caw when I am walking outdoors, when I look up a crow is sitting on a post as if to greet me.
Perhaps I have bird madness, but I love the interaction with the wild, built on trust, letting go, living in the moment with no co-dependency, a valued friendship with no ties. That is freedom! Each moment shared a blessed and cherished memory.
Would be great if you made videos of your crow friends!
Hi Ónen, Years ago, my spouse and I hiked most every weekend in Washington State. We learned to crow call in a way that *doesn't* hurt the throat. It's deeper down in the throat and can almost be called a 'gurgle' (a fast gurgle) with sound added. We first used the caw sounds to communicate with each other over distances. Then, we would also communicate with Ravens, using a lower toned, more guttural call. MANY of the crows we 'spoke' to remembered us.
Years later, we hiked with our kids in the Colorado mountains north of Boulder, and communicated with three different ravens. They would always recognize us and fly close to see us. Around that same time, I worked at the IBM, Boulder site NE of Boulder where there were dozens of visiting crows. I had many a good 'conversation' with them. I have since moved away from that area, yet am still in Colorado. Every now and then, one of the crows to whom I used to 'speak' will recognize me and give me a very nice greeting. 'Cawing' should not hurt your throat. Use the very back of your throat/airway and make it vibrate/gurgle. Then add sound at the tone you prefer. You will like it much better, and find that you can carry on long conversations with our Corvid friends.
PS, my colleagues at IBM thought that I was 'entertaining' when I would communicate with crows. One or two were certain that I was crazy. Crows are much more polite than that!! I am so glad that this video appeared in my feed. Happy 'cawing' to you.
I have been feeding a crow pair for over a year now. A month ago I had just brought my 2 small dogs in and heard 3 crows in different spots behind my house cawing what I now know was a warning call. A minute later a coyote was walking on top of my retaining wall looking around. I yelled at it, and it jumped off the wall away from my yard. It was something to see. Now I understand how to differentiate between the types of calls. Thank you
Nothing like first hand experience to learn. Was the coyote after your dogs? Those crows may have saved them.
I am familiar with ravens.
It is interesting the similarities in the calls to those of the native Americans woops and crys.
I imagine most peoples had similar sounds long ago. Thanks to Natives, the spirit still lives.🔥
One came to me years ago. I think a female had helped him rehab because he had a bum foot. He would fly to my shoulder and eat from my hand. He was so smart and played games with sticks. He would steal my lighter. He stayed for 5 months and then disappeared. It was a week before our first drop in temps. I miss him
I watched this because my son has an idea to train crows to bring him coins. He lives in a large European city with clean air and all kinds of birds, water birds included. He has crows, ravens and magpies near him. He's a linguistics student, so this video isnright up his alley.
I Love Crows. Thankyou for this insight.
I love crows.
Crows and Jays are great alert animals. They will absolutely let you know if things are going on in the area if you listen. Where I am, the crows and jays harass the heck out of hawks. They will relentlessly harass hawks and chase them out of the area every time.
I also noticed the crows will make a racket if they spot strangers in the area such as a visitor. Jays seem to mostly alert over predators here. Foxes, coyotes, hawks, etc. Just today the crows started making a racket around the time a delivery driver showed up to drop off groceries.
There was an elm outside the window where I usually sat to study. One day I heard a distressed commotion in it. A black cat was inching out the branch towards a sparrows' nest, and about five sparrows were dive bombing it to halt its advance -- unsuccessfully. After a minute one of the sparrows left dive bombing to the others, flew away, and returned quickly with two blue jays. The jays dive bombed the cat only once or twice, the cat kept inching forward between dives, and the jays flew away. But a few seconds later two crows arrived. They didn't dive at the cat; they lit on the branch between cat & nest, one about 18 inches in front of the cat and the other about a foot behind the first. I swear I heard the front one say, "Hi, kitty." (Not literally, but the body language & vibe were so clear that I might as well have.) And the kitty was like, "Oops! Sorry, wrong tree! My mistake! I was just leaving!" and proceeded to reverse its progress on the branch, reach the tree while inching backwards, and back down the trunk without taking its eyes off the crows, until it could safely jump and run.
I always wondered how the jays advised the crows about the situation.
What a cool thing to experience, it shows how they are sentient beings.👍
I will probably sound cold-hearted but crows will eat young birds if they can.
@@ejpmooBYou are correct, I was thinking about that too. But then again, maybe that little sparrow did the crows a favor in the past, so they came to help.👍💕🐦
I notice that crows will be totally silent when they suspect the food is really something special -- like pieces of hotdogs! They will try to act nonchalant, looking around to see if anyone notices them, and they'll refrain. But, when they think no one is watching, they'll hop over and take a couple of pieces, fly off and redistribute/hide them in a neighbor's gutter, detour back by pretending to arrive from somewhere else and then snag the rest of the pieces. It's as if someone has found bundles of $100 bills and is trying to keep quiet while he can get them all.
That's so true! 😆 I've seen that same thing. Makes me laugh everytime!
I worked as a maintenance guy for a state park. Every morning I threw a coffee can full of corn in the parking lot to the local crows. After a few years, they honored me by having a nest full of young-uns in the cedars across from the shop door. They are incredibly intelligent.
One time there were 2 ravens alarm-cawing & hovering a few feet above the city sidewalk. I ran over to check. They were trying to chase away a hawk that was piercing a pigeon’s back. I rescued the injured pigeon & drove to Jiffy Lube. It so happened that a mechanic there raised pigeons. I gave him the injured bird & a few weeks later, he told me that his pigeons had been feeding the injured pigeon.
Love that story!
The crows I feed get tiger prawns .Hot milk and cereal . Chocolate bars .butter tarts ..They love it
Thanks for your information.. Now I will know if they are happy with their menu ..
I walk 2x daily. I’m always chatting with my neighborhood crows.
Just yesterday I heard the ‘raptor alarm’ and watched 2 crows ‘escort’ the redwing hawk as if they were jet fighters.
Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.
Now I definitely know what they’ve been saying, not just my lifelong assumption.
We paid attention to the crows when i worked at the golf course. a whole lot of them losing their crap all at once was either a coyote close by, or an owl. Since we were gardening, on our knees and concentrating, coyote alarms were good to know about; we had some large packs around and while they don't normally bother people, there have been rare exceptions.
Thanks for this, I love crows and hear them all around where I live.
I love crows and was blessed to have a Mom with a club foot and her baby who had white wing banding, which could only be seen when he took flight. I call him Whitey and he knows my voice. I had to stop feeding them because my neighbour complained but I still see them occasionally. I miss them.
My favorite is called the crow conference. Where theres 100 crows flying around screaming and following one hawk
Thanks for what you do. The crow probably learns faster than I do anyway. Thanks again...
Thank you and you are very welcome!
I really like crows; I think they 're very nice birds and I try to be friendly toward them.
I mean if I see them on the sidewalk I approach them at a slower pace so they have time to clear the way.
But I do not recommend being aggressive toward them like someone I know did:
He purposefully scared them away, and so they got revenge by one of them stealing his hat and flying away with it.
That's hilarious!
Enjoyed this video because I spend a lot of time in my backyard watching my feeders and keeping up with the daily lives of all the neighborhood birds. They're just out making a living and raising their families just like we are.
That is a great way of looking at it! That's a very druid perspective honestly. You might be a druid and not even realized it.
Wow you are really good at those calls!!!!!!
Thank you!
Love crows. Thanks for this video!
Crows in my yard have calls for "cat," "human," "hawk/owl," "good eats right here, come and get it," "you're sitting too close to me," and "fck off." (Leaving out the most annoying call of all, the baby squawking for food nonstop from dawn 'til dusk. Takes every once of willpower not to aim a hose at it, it's so friggin' loud.) Biggest, oldest crow is Gimpy with a wonky leg and he's produced brood after brood, the ladies all have a thing for him. I regularly see him sitting placidly on a wire with two females tenderly grooming him on either side. Dude has it goin' on.
Years ago, I was walking back to MIL's to collect my young son (had been to an appointment and took a bus); very busy road beside me, and got near a strip mall. Some guy was shoo-ing a young crow out of his store and it hid beneath an A-frame ad sign. I decided to see if I could rescue it; grabbed a clean towelling nappy from my bag, gently threw it over him, and carefully picked him up. Then looked up and around to see if a parent was handy. Parent crow was watching from the power lines. I made eye contact, then slowly walked around the back of the stores, happily there was a big tree back there and no cars coming in and out. Not really a car park. Waited for the parent crow to see what I was doing, from the tree branch above me, gently unwrapped the young one, and stepped away. Hoping it wouldn't be rejected because I'd handled it but it didn't seem so. Left them to it quietly.
Birds don't have a sense of smell, so that wouldn't have been a reason to reject its young. Crows are very smart. That mama or daddy crow knew you weren't going to hurt them or their babe. Thank you for doing that😊
Hi Onen. I live in Australia, anc have several crow friends. If my preffered breakky of a token amount of cat kibnke is late, they stomp around on the roof above my bedroom to wake me up, and if peckish mid afternoon, they stare in at me in hopeful fashion. Every now and then i remind them that they don't feed me. They are intelligent, fun friends. One teenager, adult size, was yelling at me in a demanding teenage crow manner. I yelled back in a mumsy: "Don't talk to me like that, manner". To my surpise, the crown in question softened its tone down completely, and sounded like it was whispering sweet nothings to me. It was then that I understood how intelligent they really are. Every morning i whistle them up for breakky, and a pair of local mynas hang out as well. I live upstairs, and my balcony in my backyard complete with bords and birdsong.
Typo correction, second sentence: If my preferred breakfast for them of cat kibble is late...
Cool. Yesterday I had a crow fly low over me while I was walking down a remote northern-Canadian gravel road. He checked me out, and was making a calm, 2-part repeating musical call. Love the crows and Ravens up here.
Oh yes. If you gently talk back at them, they’ll often come and chat. 😊
Have enjoyed my crows for sometime. Instead of their typical five caw response I taught them to caw three times when I am around. Was with family in the yard and heard one mimic our conversation too. They love peanuts in the shell... a treat I give them every now and then. They are endearing.
I watched one morning as a crow was being attacked by a hawk. It was squawking loudly, as it turned out it was calling for help. Within a minute or so around 6 other crows came flying to the rescue, actually bombing the hawk and trying to peck it. Overwhelmed the raptor soon got the hell out of Dodge. This was way back before every phone had a video camera, unfortunately.
I have seen fights between crows and bald eagles (who love to steal & eat chicks out of nests!). And as big and mean as a bald eagle is, the crows had it flying for its life after a good beatdown!
I saw similar in Virginia. Crows ganged up on a hawk. Hawk finally departs.
That is the most entertaining video. I have crows out back among other birds and I always know by their calls if something is not right.
Would totally enjoy hanging out with this guy listening to his interactions with crows.
Thank you! :)
Dude I just realized yesterday that I totally can understand the crows and based on their calls I knew there was a stray cat in the area and then low and behold here came a tom cat just strutting on by. Thank you for giving me way more insight on their calls.
You are very welcome! I am glad that it helped you! :)
@@LearnStuffWithÓnenThis was a great video! The crows or ravens I see in the West San Gabriel Valley (near Los Angeles) frequently make clicking or grinding noises. I've always wondered what those mean.
Very helpful information I love to watch and listen to crows. Actually they are my favorite birds of all. Thank you 😊
I also communicate with the crows in my town. Started with 2 last year now I have their kids (2) . Babies have a very demanding call for food… 😊
What I really like about crow calls is not so much sounding like a typical call but when a group of them are together sometimes they have a conversation between themselves using quite a number of vocal ranges in a talking kind of voice. Great call voice you have! I think it would ruin my vocal cords if I put that much impetus into creating that voice.
Thank you! I appreciate it :)
Oh they absolutely have conversations! That's what fascinates me lol