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I was a custodian at a high school. After lunch I would find fast-food bags littering our athletic field. Watching to catch the perps after lunch I watched as a murder of crows gathered on the fence separating the parking lot from the field. Thinking nothing of it still awaiting the offender the young men and women were returnijng from lunch, and all dutifully dropped their bags into garbage cans or the backs of their pick up trucks. As soon as the students were gone, one by one as if picking pre-assigned targets the murder launched, gathered their booty and began to fly back and spread out over the entire field sorting through and occasionally tipping their heads back to swallow fries as if they were deep fried worms. What could I do but thank God for good students and job security, and an opening my eyes to a different perspective now adding an unknown variable here and there as I finished picking up the litter.
A crow's memory is amazing. So to their credit, they remember good things too. I was outside on a lunch break once, and noticed a bunch of crows trying to get into a to-go box in the trash. So I walked over and took the to-go box out of the trash, and put it on the picknick table and opened it for them. It had left over salad and grapes. So I went back over to the other table, and finished my lunch... at the same time the crows were eating their left over salad. Interesting to note, about four crows would eat, and four would stay in the trees to look out, then they would switch out, and the guys in the trees had their fair turn to eat. Well, the whole time they kept looking in my direction, and before they finished the salad, they all got together in the tree and had a for real conversation, and one of them flew down, picked up some grapes, and flew over to my table. He was obviously afraid, but it was so important to him to do the right thing. He hopped over and set the grapes down in front of me, like my share of the take. I helped, so I get a share. And he stayed, he wouldn't leave until he saw me eat a grape. So they feel a necessity to fulfill obligations. And they kept bringing me things through the month. Like they saw people smoke, so they brought me cigaret buts. They brought me food from God knows where, which I never ate, remembered I ate grapes, and then only brought me grapes. We had a little relationship going.
That is one of the coolest stories ever. I have tried luring them to our yard with peanuts. They don't seem to be too interested or they wait til I'm gone. They are just so intriguing
I been feeding mixed nuts brazils, walnuts, pecans, cashews, hazlenuts etc, to a few crows at work (London) for a bit, when i'm on shift, if i throw nuts on the floor they wait til i've dissapeared, well far enough away before they swoop down, i've noticed about 3 or 4 crows, one biggest one another a little smaller and one or two small crows, a family i'd say. The biggest one the dad i presume is getting braver and swoops down for nuts i've chucked on the floor much sooner and closer. When i walk out the building i whistle once and chuck a few nuts look back as i'm walking off and they are swooping to the floor, lately now he's flew overhead in the morning giving out a low volume caw, like saying hey, nuts? lol, they've probably learnt my shift pattern and know what days i'm in haha So far they ain't brought me shit lol.
I know that crows have a similar concept of "fun" to humans. Whenever it's snowy, I look across the street to the house opposite and see a bunch of crows sliding down the roof. Then they fly back up and get in a queue to do it again. It fascinated me 5 years ago, and it still fascinates me now.
Here in Australia crows have learned to press the button at road crossings to stop cars, traffic cameras have even seen them dropping nuts onto the road and waiting for the cars to crush them, then pressing the button and walking out to eat their food. They're seriously smart birds!
A while back, I was sitting down eating hot chips at a Cafe and I heard someone talking and whimpering behind me. I turned around and nobody else was around. I continued eating and heard it again and this time being thoroughly creeped out I stood up and turned around. I had no idea it was the crow sitting on the ground behind me so I took a couple steps to look around the corner to see if there was somebody there. Nobody was there... I turned back to my table and the crow was eating my chips. I shooed it away and when it landed on the ground It started making whimpering crying sounds again. I was amaized at how smart this bird was, using the sound of a crying person to distract people so it could steal from them lol
I found a young injured crow in the 80's my father and myself nursed him back to good health. He imprinted on me and would not leave and belive me we tried! So "Walter" became a member of the family and my best friend. He had a large vocabulary. And was a big silly ham when the kids in the neighborhood gave him an attention. He lived many years and gave me many good times. I think of him often and still miss him a lot. Like I said Walt was my best friend.
When your time on earth is finished, in an instance you will travel across the universe to a wonderful place...and your friend will be there to welcome you
You mentioned ravens or crows gathering like a funeral at the death of one of their members .30 years ago my mother had green houses . She use to wash the used pots out in a wheel barrow . The ravens were her friends , they use to ride on the edge of the wheel barrow , and walk , following her around the yard . The day she died , ravens lined the gutters of her house , shoulder to shoulder for an entire day . How could they have known ? Makes me think theres more to their abilities than we are aware of ?
😭 ♥️ Beautiful tale. Thanks for sharing! I love my ravens that visit me everyday when I am in the garden. They cackle and knock around my bedroom window if I'm up too late (to give them treats 😁). They even called me mom just like my kids. I wish they were not so skittish.
I have a crow call (They're used to locate turkeys) and sometimes I'll mimic them while I'm fishing. I'll usually try to repeat a crow. If it caws three times, I'll caw three times and so on. So a crow comes over and starts cawing. It caws 5 times, then 4, then 3 and it leads me in a countdown to 1 then counts back up to 7 with me copying it. I was thinking, OMG! This crow is showing me it can count. Then when it gets back up to 7 it sort of tilts it head then flys away, calling it's murder of pals. Then I realized it wasn't showing me that it could count, it was seeing if I could count. And apparently it was surprised so it flew back to tell its family.
Staying in a house with a walled garden in Romania, an old raggedy crow got stuck, couldn't fly out of the garden. Either too old, or injured. His crow family kept watch, mobbed me if I got too close, cawed and threatened from the apple trees (the garden was an orchard), and used to feed the old bird several times a day. The raggedy crow would hop up on a rusty, rotting see-saw and climbed to the highest point. Younger crows dropped down to the garden and fed the old crow like a chick, stuffing food into the old one's beak. Quite astonishing behaviour - wonderful to watch.
In their early youth, my father, James, and his identical twin, Amos, left their farm home in early spring to explore the far reaches of their 180 acres. Amos carried a .22 rifle. On approach, the boys spied a murder of crows rummaging in the corn rubble. Amos fired upon and killed a crow. The surviving crows flew into and waited on the edge of the woods. The boys ran to examine the carcass and Amos raised high his trophy. In late autumn near harvest, the boys returned to that same area of their land though without the .22. A group of crows flew out of the woods and mobbed Amos who held his hands to his head while running for home. The crows did not bother James. Identical twins or not, the crows knew; the crows remembered.
Where I live, I have a lot of birds that "visit" my property, crows in particular. I started leaving a plate of dog food on top of an arbor I have near the garden and one day I went to get the plate to give them more treats and found a few items on it. There was a marble, a piece of broken jewelry and a red matchbox car! I guess I got a tip! Since then, I often find little gifts on the plate! So much fun to see what they'll leave next!
I'd love for my visitors to leave objects but they seem content to simply take all the food and cache elsewhere. I wondered if it were possible to maybe leave a coin in the empty plate and then have them observe me replacing the coin with food. Ultimately they might get the idea to go around the neighborhood picking up the loose coins and bringing them to the plate
I had a crow divebomb me everyday for almost a week . I saw a documentary on crows and found out about how they recognized certain things and even faces. I stoped wearing my red baseball hat and the divebombimg ceased. The city Workers where I live who cut down trees wear red hats! Guess they cut down someone’s home and the crows thought I was the culprit! Since then, I find crows&Ravens fascinating.
I knew someone that would trade with a flock of crows. He would give them food and they'd give him something shiny that they found. Usually trinquets, sometimes coins. Once, he got curious. Just as the crow went for the food, he made them aware that he had more before setting it down a bit away from the first one. The crow looked at him, both piles of food the trinquet then the food again before flying off. He returned a short time later with a ring to add to his offering. Kind of suggests that they can have a sense of value
Attila Goda Yes-and seagulls on the west coast pick up clams, carry them to a good height, and drop them in order to break them open and get the food inside. Birds are pretty smart critters, some more so than others!
phillippi2 Vietnamese folk tale has this story. Once a crow ate most of the fruits of a star fruit tree, the owner of the tree trapped him for punishment, the crow said don’t worry i eat your fruits I will pay for it with gold, just prepare bag to receive it.
I witnessed a crow funeral once. 12-15 crowd gathered in the trees around the dead bird. They looked at their fallen comrade in dead silence for 20-30 minutes. Then flew off in silence. It was rather strange.
My wife and I walk at the lake often and suddenly heard a group of crows making a big deal about something, when we walked down to see why... We found 2 dead mallard ducks that were dead beside each other. I thought of it as a kind of Memorial by the crows.
A crow came to my door and knocked when I was a kid using his beak. I gave to him pepperonis to eat. And he would fly back to his friends in a tree n share with them. And come back for more. Then, they flew over me as a walked to school. This lasted 4 days!!!!! True story.
Back in the 90's, I flew hang gliders, mostly in the mountains of So Cal. That's when I really learned about crows. Most other birds were off all day in search of food, but not crows. I believe they are so smart that food gathering is a small task for them. Why? Because they spend most of their day playing, and not just simple stuff. How do I know? I've watched them for countless hours at hang gliding launch sites play really dangerous games with each other. Here's an example. Good ridge lift on the side of the mountain and the first crow announces and then flies along the ridge until folding his wings to his body, inverting upside down, and plummets toward the rocks below, only to flip over and barely recover by spreading his wings just before crashing into the rocks. Then one after another are vocally challenged to do better, which they do, just for the fun of it, over and over. Some of the death defying recoveries, trying to outdo the previous and impress the crow crowd, are beyond stunning. Of course the media doesn't care about this, but folks, these are really smart creatures.
I’m ‘friends’ with a group of crows. For the past 10 years or so they’ve followed me during my walks and recently brought a baby crow to meet me. (I bring them treats so that’s how it all started) The first time the main crow realized I was a friend he did barrel rolls in the sky above me. I’ve met about 4 generations of them I think. I wish I had made a journal of this but at the time I had no idea they’d remember me for so many years!
When I was a kid in the 70's in southern California we had a big backyard with a pool. One day I was walking to school, and found a crow with a wounded wing, or so it appeared. It was in some ivy on the ground. I picked him up, and a janitor at school kept him for me until after. I took it home, got worms for him. Eye dropper for water. Made a nice safe place for him. Anyway, in about a week, he got better. I figured it was time to see if he could fly away. Although I wanted him to live on my shoulder! 😁 But I helped him, and got him to fly. He flew up and perched on the wires way up across the yard. He groomed a little, squawked a little. Then flew away. A day later he came back, and brought me a top of a soda can, the tap that you used to pull off. Then a few days later he brought this beautiful flat bead, like from a bracelet. He brought me shiny things for about a month. Then I don't recall him coming back, but maybe he did. I'll always remember that. Always.
I have a raven that loves my chickens (as friends) and hangs out near their area. He sits in a tree above them and imitates their sound to get them to come out. He also flies into their pen and walks around with them eating their scratch like he is a chicken too. He comes every day to visit!!
Mom Unplugged Would love to hear your raven talk and act like a chicken🐓 Chickens are very smart also. I have lots of chicken friends😊 Here’s one of many funny chicken/animal stories We had a black and white hen that would sing and strut up a storm every time she laid an egg, out doing all of the other hens in the hen house She could hit the high notes so I named her Aretha Franklin. One day when I after I finished collecting the eggs I went back into the hen house because one hen was reluctant to give up her eggs, so I left her alone and collected all of the eggs from all of the other hens On my return the reluctant hen let me have her eggs when Aretha (who was in the nesting box right next door so to speak) started squawking, singing while sitting on her nest I looked over saying hello Aretha when she stood up looking right at me then looked down at her nest.....I looked in the nest and found a beautiful freshly laid pink colored egg, it was so fresh that it was still soft, she must have laid it while I was gathering the eggs in the other hen houses It appeared that she wanted me to have it so I carefully picked it up placing it in my basket and thanked her for the beautiful egg. She was such a good and entertaining hen....all of them were and I have dozens of farm animal stories
We have a flock of 10 chickens in a fenced-in run. We've had ravens around the outside of the run, but never made friends with the chickens. Then again, my chickens are at the opposite end of the intelligence spectrum! It has been known, though, when crows and ravens are around, hawks are not.
I have been feeding the crows at my office for years. They know my car, and fly with my car as I drive up to the building. When I walk out to toss peanuts and goodies to them, there is one crow who apparently wants to reciprocate, because he has dropped a pecan at my feet several times. They are remarkable, extremely intelligent creatures.
I do this too! They know me and my car. I've fed the crows at work for about 8 months now. I go outside about 3 times a day and hive them a little snack. If I'm late they will knock on the glass. lol One day when they came when I called them and brought me aluminum foil. Dropped it by me and went to eat. It's a grassy area so I'm unsure if they've brought anything else.
@@MagnoliaMS70 : Wow! They REALLY like you, because crows love shiny things, so giving you a piece of aluminum foil that is shiny was a real gift for that crow to give to you! Better than a pecan! A real treasure to a crow! 😀
We had a wild born blind adult Crow living with the family as a pet for just over 10 years. It learnt to understand a lot of English but never spoke. Instead it would mime out what it wanted whilst yelling at us in Crow language so we'd learn the call for something. Our Crow as called "Blackie" and had his own custom built house complete with heated perch. During the day he'd hang out in the garden and be visited by members of his Crow "clan" and a tame wild giant Wood Pidgeon, who'd act as his bodyguard and attack any Magpies that attempted to steal from his daytime food bowl. When an interloper Crow kept stealing from Blackie's daytime food bowl and was caught attacking Blackie by the other Crows they held a parliament in a tree in the field at the bottom of the garden (so Blackie could be involved) and the bad Crow was there. After over an hour of Crows cawing, the Crows chased the bad Crow away and we never saw it again. I stood with Blackie on my hand during these proceedings after coming out to see what all the racket was about. Blackie asked to be picked up and carried. He was doing a lot of the cawing and the other were listening, then others would take a turn at cawing, etc. Kind of a once in a lifetime experience to be invited to spectate a Crow parliament from directly next to the tree where it was being held.
That sounds.. so fucking amazing like not kidding. I always wondered if animals sense goodness in us and pick the right person to see their "lifestyle" that's a moment right there.
@Andy Reid BLACKIE!! I read your comment on one of the Falconry And Me videos where you told the story of Blackie. ANOTHER BLACKIE STORY!!! Blackie sounds like he was the best. (And his stories sound like they could make up a prize-winning novel. (Seriously.)) I've read a lot of the crow/raven/corvid stories from the comments of these videos, but I think Blackie's is the one that has stuck with me the most. Definitely one of my favorites. I'm a big fan. So excited to find another story in the Blackie saga. Hope i stumble across another someday.
Crows are known for their loud cawing, but they can do a lot more vocalizing than that. I was eating lunch under a large tree at a park a few years ago, and there was about 7 crows high above me in the tree. They were at rest and hunched down on their perches. Over the next 20 minutes or so, they made a very wide range of bizarre and unexpected noises. These sounds included high-pitched whistling, moaning sounds, hissing, and what sounded like people whispering in another room. All the sounds were delivered quietly, with some barely audible. I'm an ornithologist, but the sheer number of different sounds they made astonished me, never having heard this before. They definitely seemed to be communicating with each other in a complex way that went beyond the normal singing or "danger" or "I found food" calls that most birds make. It was one of the most interesting and bizarre things I've ever witnessed.
ravens and crows are so FIERCELY intelligent...ive known people who have trained them to recognize,find and retrieve missing objects for their owners...i even heard a story of a guy who befriended a murder of crows to the point where whenever he would go to the park they would bring him presents in the form of small shiny objects,including money!
About 15 yrs ago there was a single crow who hung out around the dumpster next to a restaurant near where I did my shopping in CA. It was walking around on the sidewalk when a restaurant employee came out with a bag of trash. Then I noticed one of the crow's wings was dragging on the ground and it looked really pitiful. It followed the guy around while he dumped the bag and went back inside the back door of the restaurant. When the crow realized he/she wasn't going to get anything, it waited a minute or so, tucked it's wing back up and flew up to sit on top of a tall light post in the parking lot, where it made some angry sounding calls before flying away. I saw this crow at least one other time wandering around the sidewalk by this restaurant with it's wing tip dragging whenever someone with the restaurant uniform was visible. Hilarious and it taught me just how smart these birds are.
Raven father: Okay son, it's time to fly with the conspiracy Raven son: The what? Raven father: AKA the undkindness Raven son: Uhhhh..... Raven father: Life is cruel, son. Now get your wings flapping!
Those large gatherings are sort of like proms for the youngsters. While the young birds frolic and meet new friends and potential mates, the adults keep watch and stand guard. It's fascinating to watch.
For the past few years my young daughter has, each morning, prepared food to feed the crows around her home. They now have an established routine whereby the crows will each bring a "gift" for her. This may be a button, piece of alfoil, bottle top, the ring pull from a can of soft drink, a clothes peg - anything really!! She has also told me she can recognise a fair few individual birds, and that some have even brought their offspring too - who also follow "etiquette". I think it's amazing in what she has achieved!! 👍
My father was a true Nature Guy who could charm even wild animals. He ended up with a pet crow this way. The crow just showed up and... stayed. I was a little girl at the time, and every night I'd visit Edgar on his perch in my dad's workshop (yeah, Edgar Allen Crow) and my dad would supervise as I interacted with him. It was so fun! Edgar was friendly, sneaky and clever. My dad cared for him for about 7 years, I think. (Near the end of his life, my dad opened the front door to find a white dove standing there. The dove just walked into the house and stayed, usually sitting on my dad's shoulder or perching nearby. My dad liked to call it the Holy Spirit. The dove disappeared when my dad died.)
I observed one time a young crow feeding an old crow french fries I threw on the ground for them. The old crow was in bad shape, But the young crow was feeding the old crow the fries piece by piece, To me that was wonderful🙂
when i was young my father got a young crow. we clipped his wings and he would walk around the neighborhood and sometimes bring us other peoples house keys(maybe from other peoples hiding spots?). One time my brother was working on a chainsaw in the back and the crow kept trying to get my brother to play with him, but my brother ignored him. When he left it alone to come in to have lunch the crow went over and took four identical bolts and hid each one under a different leaf. Another time I was the only person home and in bed and I could hear the crow pecking on my window for me to come out and play with him. A little later I was awoke by the door bell ! I got up and checked and just the crow was there! I cant say for sure, but I think that the crow flew up and pressed the button. I always talk to crows when I see them. R. Hogue
Absolutely without question have loved crows and ravens since childhood. I remember vividly when I had a condo where I could feed and care for them. They would literally follow my car home, fly over the condo complex where I lived, and would wait for me in the backyard for their treats. Usually one of the larger dominant ones would put out the call as if to say "he's home, come and get it!". Sure enough the flock would respond and come flying up the hill from the valley below. They are really an enjoyable bird to be with.
Today I was attacked by a crow. My husband and I wanted to have a picnic in a park. This crow came to attack a second time and I was already bleeding on the head from the first event. We had enough and drove home only to find out that our 90 year old neighbor,who lives on his own, was shouting for our help. He had a fall in his garden and could not get up.Without the aggressive crow we would have stayed the afternoon away from home. Praise God.
Friend, Covid 19 has proved that never believe in old superstitions like crows. Anything can happen anytime. Success means using your talent and skills to the best of your ability. Relax your mind--Thank God and be grateful for what you have.
That crow probably wanted to protect its children, but it also protected an old man. What a great story, everyone ends up fine (except your head, ouch).
I rescued a baby hooded crow and I bring him to fly everyday. Other hooded crows attack him viciously but the other species leave him alone. Sometimes, magpies and rooks play with him, but his own species won't. Territoriality? Most probably, if he was in the wild he'd be hanging around with his family and they would have their own territory and he wouldn't be getting attacked so much. And it's true that he has a sound for me: he copies my laugh and won't do that when there's anyone else around.
interesting Raven facts in Norse mythology, Odin has 2 ravens that fly around the world every day and bring important news to him in the Viking Age, to kill someone in battle was to make "Raven's meat" In lore of indigenous tribes of the Pacific Northwest, Ravens were once pure white, but in defiance of gods, one of them flew to the sun and brought back an ember to people to make fire, his feathers were burned black and as continuing punishment for defying the gods, all his kin were turned black also in Oregon, there is a flock of pure white Ravens, they are NOT albino, their eyes are black
Which tribe? Inuits believe crow brought the light for half the year. There are rainbow crow legends that crow sacrificed his color to the water. There's a legend that crow brought fire from the great spirit to warm up the land, but ended up getting burned, therefore turning black and losing his beautiful singing voice, and also creator made his meat taste bad so humans wouldn't eat them, or cage them.
My grandfather had a pet crow which could talk in his aunt's voice then answer in his voice. It could also bark like a dog, and liked to steal pens. It eventually flew off to his own life.
Just later last year I befriended the crows in my neighbourhood. There aren’t many but I often feed and converse with them. Because of the lack of crows in my area (and my keen interest in them) I’d like to find more. As much as I’d love to chill out with them at a cemetery, more or less observe them, I think people might find me creepier than I actually am...
Hello crow people, i grew up raising crows that fell out of their nests,13 in all. my grandfather started the whole crow thing, he had one named Pete for a pet in1918. and all of my crows went back to the wild but one. And yes his name was Pete. He would follow me across town to my Grandparents home & my Uncle's. He would show up at my junior high school walk around the window sills until he found me and when he did he would start crowing until i petted him & sent him on his way. he would wake us up every morning waiting for a snack to start his day, I'm so thankful to of had pete for a friend.
I used to work with a bloke who had worked as a plant operator on some of the beef development roads in the Northern Territory. Every day they would leave camp and drive to where they had parked up their machines the previous night. They would take with them drinking water and styrofoam coolers with a bags of ice and their lunches in them. They would move the machines to where they had been working the day before and then come back to the park up area for lunch. Every day when they stopped for lunch, they would find that one of the coolers had a hole in one end and a hole in the lid and some item of food would be missing. At first they thought it was a goanna doing it, but soon realized that a goanna would have just torn the cooler apart to get at the food, instead of making two small neat holes in it. One day they decided to solve the mystery once and for all. They all went to work, went through the same routine of putting the coolers under a shady tree and went off to work. Once they had reached the work area, two of the men got off their machines and walked back to the park up area and hid in the bushes. After a few minutes, a crow flew in and landed on one of the tree branches above the food coolers. He had a good look around to make sure there was no one else about and then flew down and landed on top of one of the coolers. He then pecked a hole in the lid and put his head into it and had a good look at what was inside. When he had decided on what he thought was the tastiest looking of the food inside, he hopped onto the ground and pecked a hole in the side of the cooler, dragged out a plastic wrapped package of sandwiches and flew off to have his lunch! Not only had this crow found a very reliable source of fresh food, he had also worked out a way of choosing what he ate and how to get it without expending too much energy. Crows are my favorite type of birds. It's hard not to admire that sort of intelligence.
In the front of the flat I live in there is a chestnut tree and only a good 10 or so metre away there is a road where cars come and go quite regularly but not constantly. I seen the crows never time during autumn to pick up chestnuts and drop it front of cars to have the cars cracking them open. Then they fly down and eat it in relative safety given cars only move around ten or so minutes in avarage.
Ravens have 17 pinions (main flight feathers) on each wing, while crows have only 16. So, the chief difference between ravens and crows is nothing more than a matter of a pinion.
I have a crow that has learned that when my dog is outside barking, I come out to get her to bring her inside so the crow will wait for me on my neighbors garage roof because it knows I'll leave it some peanuts. It all started about a year ago when I noticed a crow in a tree and decided to leave some peanuts out for it on a tree stump. After doing that for a few months (dog outside barking, I go out to get her, I see the crow, I leave it peanuts rinse/repeat) now each time my dog barks, it will land on my neighbors garage roof right outside my back door waiting for me to go outside to get her. There are a few other dogs around me, but when they bark I never see the crow land on the garage roof or even in the trees outside. It only happens when my dog starts barking that it might take a minute or two before I see the crow on the roof waiting for me to come outside with peanuts. So I believe that it has learned both my dogs bark, because it doesn't do it for other dogs and that when she is outside barking I'll be out there to have something for it. I haven't quite got it to take any peanuts out of hand yet and that's ok, but it now allows me to stand right next to the tree stump I leave the peanuts on. My girlfriend has tried to stand next to the stump, both by herself and with me standing there with her but the crow won't fly down from the garage until she walks away. So it only lets me get close and I think that's kind of cool lol. And even though crows are almost impossible to tell apart, I know it's the same crow because it's the only one that ever lands on the garage roof or will fly down to the stump while I'm still standing there. The others just hang out in the tree waiting for me to leave.
Same thing but different. Every morning i air out my apartment so i open the front door fully. Once a crow sat on the railing outside the door peeking inside. I went all enthusiastic, talked to it a bit and remembered i had bird peanut butter. That's how the whole thing started. Now when my front door is open, it will come over. The open door has become the open/closed sign. At some point i got introduced to a smaller one that now comes along with the big one but is still pretty much too scared to come over. So i put his/her peanuts behind the railing and move away so it feels protected by it, that seems to work. Also, when i have chicken for dinner i give them the scraps. Open the door, whistle and 5 secs later they're there. :) Sometimes they don't come over and just sit in the big tree in front of my house. That's usually when i have my hair up... When i take it down and go "come on!" the big one immediately flies over. :D
When my grandpa was alive he had a fairly large garden that took up most of his back yard, it was truly beautiful. I know that sounds odd calling a garden beautiful but it really was, he took a lot of pride in it and every day he'd tend to it. There was a section where'd he grow corn for us and then across from that he'd grow corn feed for his cow (yes just 1 cow lol). My grandpa had a daily routine with every vegetable in his garden like putting down home made pesticides, testing the crops to see if they were ready or needed something to help them grow correctly/healthy. I don't remember how he did it but my grandpa had a way of testing the corn he was growing for his cow to see if it was ready. Just like clockwork he'd wait till the next day to have us grandkids pick it so he wouldn't have to bend over too much and when the next day came almost half of it would be gone. Obviously he knew it was the crows and even though it annoyed him he kinda thought it was funny. Through out the entire time he'd check the corn while it was growing it wouldn't be touched up until that last check up. It's crazy but they knew when it was ready everytime and to me that's hilarious because that shows they could've ate it while it was growing but didn't because they liked the tasted when it was ready. There really wasn't much he could do, yeah he could've shot them but it was just corn feed, no big deal. So he planted a special row for the crows so they'd leave the other alone and for the most part they did, the whole thing was just hilarious. Lol
Thank you, Lesley!!! I've rehabbed songbirds and birds of prey for many years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Corvids have to be my favorites, probably due to their level of intelligence. I so appreciate what you do, and the educational information you provide to the general bird loving public.
Back when I was in high school a murder of crows would follow me to and from the school on my daily walk. They never bothered me, they were just there. They'd also sit in the trees outside my house in the evening. There was 15-20 of them. That was about 3 years ago. Now there are 5 or 6 crows that have started gathering around my work when I'm in the yard. Idk if some of them are same crows or if it's just a coincidence, but I think it's pretty neat.
I drove a taxi for a while in the '90s in the DFW area. At a fine high $$ hotel we drivers would be in line waiting our turn, hidden out of the way from guests viee. After a fare drop we'd come back around to end of the line, rotating our turns. When the doorman needed a cab, he would whistle for next cab for the fare. Their luggage was loaded before to be ready for pick up, door open like a limo driver. One day, after several times, the doorman insisted each cab was not whistled for. We all heard him. We finally realized that a crow was whistling for us when it saw the doorman bringing out luggage on a dolly. He had to change to a whistle & then wave of his hand to confirm it was him & not another crow. Yep, they are smart...HUGS2U
Regarding crows killing crows... I live in Wales where I am fortunate to have lots of crows (and rooks, magpies, jays & ravens) around and it's said here that crows hold courts/trials, the 'accused' is in the middle of a gathering of crows (all on the ground) and they get quite vocal, then presumably they come to a consensus one way of the other and if found guilty they carry out a punishment, which involves the 'court/jury' attacking the 'guilty' party (sometimes killing the crow), interestingly the 'guilty' crow doesn't seem to fight back. I don't know if the trial/jury/sentence is entirely true or just an old wives tale but I have seen them do the gathering in a circle around a single crow, get raucous and then attack the one in the middle, so they definitely do something weird... you would think the 'accused' would just fly off but they don't they just stand and wait for the outcome. Here is an example (of the second half at least): ruclips.net/video/7liZdySa-IU/видео.html Another interesting thing is that we also have a lot of birds of prey (Red Kites, Buzzards, Peregrine Falcons, to name but a few) some of which are a lot bigger than crows but the crows always escort the birds of prey out of their territory, and the bigger bird goes, this makes sense when there are 3/4 crows to one bird of prey but sometimes it's just one crow and still the bigger bird keeps clear ;)
I have 2 life size ravens that are made from resin that hang on my wall. I ordered them from a Toscano catalog, but I have seen them elsewhere. Incredibly life like. Look exactly like 2 ravens perched on branches. My pride and joy. They are in remembrance of my raven friends I left behind when I moved, ( Topper and Boo ). I couldn’t tell them apart by appearance, only by behavior. Funny but my I moved into a new place and befriended 2 others. Blessed
I witnessed the raven “conspiracy” in Mesa Verde National Park this summer. I was actually above them and many ravens kept coming and joining the circling. Unreal!!
Tlactl The same thing goes for this one parking lot near a restaurant I usually go to. Tons of crows started gathering there which made it awesome to observe (sometimes I see a few crows preening each other)
Thanks. Crows recognizing people. I started throwing scraps on my front yard the crows seem to be the most appreciative. At first they would fly off the utility pole when I came outside, but after a while a couple of them would stay. One would watch me in my yard. About a month after the food in my yard was being tossed every day I was coming home from work. About a mile from home I was waiting at a traffic signal when I spotted about two dozen crows sitting on a wire. Just as I started wondering if any of them were the crows I knew, they started cackling. My guess is they recognized me by my car and we're crowing, 'hey, that's that guy...' They've never done this since. I think this is like what Temple Grandin says about cows. Lay down in a cow pasture and every cow will walk over to look at you. For ten seconds. And then they'll never give you a second glance. It's not that they don't know you, it's that they do. 'Hi ya' every time an animal sees you shouldn't be expected. Hummingbirds. I've got at least a two dozen buzzing my front porch everyday (Southern California, feeders full of nectar). Before I installed a screen door about once a month one of them would fly through the open door and then try to exit via the ceiling. I'd toss a black t-shirt to catch them to take outside. At first I would feel terrible, they go stiff in some awkward contortion and I'd think, 'oh no, I've killed it.' Nope. All fake. On several occasions, always the net day, when I would be on the other side of my house, I would get a close visit, usually hovering about 4-6 feet away, by a hummingbird. I think it's the hummingbird I'd helped. If I or Eddie, who was around my house a lot, were anywhere on our hilly neighborhood, we'd often get buzzed by hummingbirds. Clearly they recognize us and zip in for a visit. When you go to do your hummingbird video, let me know if there's any video or stills I might provide. I've got Allens, Annas, Costas, black-chins and a big Nikon. Back to crows. In Japan, Ueno Park in the summer evening is full of crows cawing and clicking away sharing the news before they sleep. I was walking along a quiet street and tried matching the clicking of a crow up on the wire. It responded, I responded, and then it squawked, cawed and flew off. I think I'd annoyed it so it told me off. Then I noticed two little girls in the yard of a day care or kindergarten, they'd been watching and just started laughing. I think they completely understood what had just happened.
I'm a truck driver and I stopped at a rest area in the middle of nowhere NM; and there was I believe a raven, on a telephone pole cawing loudly. I started talking to it in a mild higher pitch voice and it stopped and listened. It was obviously looking at me. When I stopped, it cawed back at me also in a softer mild tone. When I had to leave, I'd like to think it was following me. May have been a coincidence. It flew the same direction I was heading, but of course it could not keep up. It was a nice experience!
My uncle caught a mouse, still in the trap, and set it out on the back deck for later disposal. From the window he saw a crow scoop the whole thing up. A while later the empty trap was back on the deck.
Although not a crow or raven specifically- Blue Jays are still pretty much like blue crows to me since they seem to act similar and being in the same family and all. A few years back, I would have a Blue Jay that hung around and would tease my dog. It would mimic her whining noises and whine back at her and get her riled up on purpose it seemed. It, or they also would seem to eat spiders off of the house in the mornings and evenings, which was always fun to watch and appreciated, haha.
natureswildchild1 Blue jays are in the same family (corvids) as crows and ravens, so it makes sense you had noticed similarities. They are indeed quite smart. Thanks for sharing your story, btw! Birds are amazing.
The gulls at ocean isle North Carolina would dig up clams and mussels along the waterway then then fly over the road and drop them to break them open. The crows would hide in the scrub on the dunes and swoop in for the clam before the gull could react. Serves he gulls right...they would swarm people carrying anything that looked edible....the crows would watch and wait for handouts or crumbs but never attack
About 10 years ago, I started to befriend my local crow family. Over the years, the family has grown to several families and they have learned what vehicles or bike I use. They will wait for me where ever they see my transport or even follow me, knowing I always carry food for them. Sometimes they don't want to eat, but have long drawn out conversations with lots of clicks, rattles and other bizarre noises. For the past couple years, that damn Avian pox has hit. Even though I clean and bleach their eating and drinking areas, I have buried about a dozen friends. In the last couple of days before death hits a bird, the flock and the sick one trusts me enough to hand feed and give them water from my hand. Every time I think the flocks are over the pox, another crow will pick it up. It's been difficult!
Yes, even mine know my car, too. So I believe you. When they see me coming they chase after and then perch on top of the trees waiting for me to give them peanuts and sometimes scraps from last nights supper. That's sad about your crows, so sorry. I hate to know they are going through that.
All animals do this.....its a matter of degree and kind. The crow has a different path in life than a nuthatch or chickadee, elk or bear but I am convinced they recognize specific people if you cross paths enough.
I too lost one of my crow friends 3 years ago. They are susceptible to West Nile virus, more so than other birds probably because of their diverse diet. The surviving mate just recently hooked up with a new significant other. I hope it works out for them.
@@tigerseye73 When I was a kid just outside Washington DC, we had massive flocks of crows all over the rural and suburban areas. When West Nile First hit, maybe 20 years ago now, it was absolutely devastating. There were sick and dead crows everywhere, and it was horrible to see. We had to dispose of the dead carefully to try and prevent the spread of the disease. For years afterward there were almost no crows, but in the last 5 to 8 years the population has started to recover. The flocks are nowhere near their pre-West Nile virus numbers, but it's so nice to go outside and have one of my buddies caw at me as I walk by her tree!
Had a neighbor, really good with animals and very observant. He was telling me how he rescued a baby crow when he was younger. It was just like his dogs, always around. He would feed it with his dogs, it would be by the dogs and even climb over them on occasion. But he said it would watch him and get ready to "see" him off. He would drive off to work and see him following him. Then later in the day the crow would see him driving home and he would see it flying home following him. He was amazed how far the bird would follow him and his ability to spot his car. That could be a sound thing though as I had a dog and the ups guy would always have treats. I worked close by and after some time I learned his route was my neighborhood. Anyway all kinds of ups trucks would drive by, same style and shape / size and she would know if it was Earnies truck every time. But back to the crow, it grew up real young with my neighbor and pretty much only identified with him his dogs and his friends. It didn't imprint with other crows at all. They would actually bully him. Interesting story he told.
I watch hundreds of crows fly over my house twice a day. They've got a really big nesting site over by UW Bothell campus wetlands. They leave at daybreak and come back in the evening. Reminds me of commuters going to work.
I have 2 crows that hang around my place daily. "Flo the crow" and "Joe the crow". Joe spends most of the day sitting on a perch outside my kitchen window. At first I got a little paranoid because I thought he was watching me. The paranoia really set in when I realised he was definitely watching me. Whenever I moved out of his view, he would reposition himself on the perch so that he could see me again. It became a bit of a fun game after that. I'd hide and he would look for me. After he stole my phone (Yes, for real, but I got it back) I decided to start feeding him, although he always keeps a safe distance of about 4 metres away at all times, which is a bit of a shame but I guess he's just playing it safe.
In the farming area where I live it was noticed that occasionally a crow would get hit by a vehicle. The incidence of them being hit increased dramatically in the fall during the grain harvest. The provincial government was made aware and set up a Governmental Enquiry at a cost of several millions of dollars to determine why so many more crows died in the fall than in the rest of the year. Surveillance was set up and found that the crows would sit on the fences and nearby trees. When a truck drove by and spilled grain, all of the crows except for one would fly down to eat. The one crow that stayed in the tree or sat on the fence acted as a look out and would let out a loud "Caw" when a vehicle drove by. The crows would then fly out of the way. It was noted however that the crows that were killed were never hit by cars but they were always hit and killed by the trucks hauling the grain. From this the government concluded that all of the crows could say "CAW" but none of them could say "TRUCK."
Crows also hold court on sentinel birds that failed to notify the flock of approaching danger. The murder may escape initially...but when safe, they get in a ring on the ground, surrounding the offending bird. A great deal of chatter follows, and if found guilty the murder descends upon the offender and they kill it as a group. This behavior has been observed on several occasions... Cf. The Life History of the Crow...I forget the author's name...fascinating book. Thank you for the video!
I have a wild pet crow. It has a bunch of beautiful black feathers on her head. Well I think she is a girl. She comes around while I am having my evening cup of tea. At first she was a little rough taking food from my hand but the bird is now very gentle. Her name is Crow.
I think crows tell other crows to: "Stay away from that human! He is crazy! He tries to caw like us, make sounds like us! And he talks using a child like voice! They has got to be something wrong with him!"
Crows are so intelligent, I remember walking home through the park and feeding them popcorn. We have 3-4 crows who visit the grassy area outside our house. We leave them small pieces of buttered bread along with other food items which they eat almost immediately. They are so intelligent and it makes my day to observe their fascinating and beautiful behaviour. Thanks for uploading this priceless video.
Hello and thank you for your hard work, when I was a young boy I climbed into a tall tree and got a crow chick,I raised it into an adult and she and I were best friends for years. She left at about 2 years and raised her one chicks but came home every day for food during the raising months, after being gone for many mounts on Christmas day 50 years ago it was winter and cold, I awoke to a crow calling from the roof top after going out in the cold and calling to her she landed on the ground near me we talked for a time , she was very cautious, but after only about 5 minutes she was on my hand and in the house with me she stayed raised another brood and then was gone never to be seen again still today,one of the most profound thing's on my life I have many stories about her and I loved her thank you Mark
At my last job I was in the habit of taking a 3-mile walk each noon along a country road. At the top of the 1st hill was an open field where crows often gathered to feed. At first they flew off at my approach, but in time they became accustomed to me and just ignored me. One day I stopped to watch them. Immediately they came to attention - every other time they'd seen me, I'd just walked by, so this didn't fit the pattern they'd come to expect. In a puckish frame of mind, I cawed at them - and they went absolutely berserk. They fled, screaming, in all directions. I don't know what I said to them, but it didn't go down well.
When I was young I used to spend a lot of time under the trees in the back of the yard. One day, I had been quietly sitting there for a long time when the crows nesting up high in the next tree began to sing the most lovely fluting song to their babies. I was so astonished I stood up to look, and they were FURIOUS and alarmed that I had heard their private song - they screamed at me for the longest time. I have never heard crows make that sound ever again, but I read once that others have heard it on rare occasions.
I have two Ravens that have befriended me. I feed them every morning when I feed my dogs which is after our 4 mile walk in which they follow checking in periodically. Before we moved I had another pair for many many years and they used to bring their young by as well when they were old enough. Miss those guys but we still go up there a couple times a month and believe it or not they fly in to greet me. Like the know I am coming to visit
Also was in a 4th story dentist chair having some serious work done when my dentist, her assistant and I noticed that the nearby sycamore tree had several crows or ravens standing on and near a nest. They were all looking at us with a look of what appeared to be horror. My dental assistant remarked that the crows probably thought that I was being tortured or something.
well a story i heard about my grand farther was that to protect his crop he would shoot 1 crow out of a pair and leave the other one alive so that he would tell the rest of the pack to stay away becuse danger and it worked where other farmers of the day would just shoot every crow that they saw and they always came back
I had a pet raven years ago and it was the most amazing experience I've ever had with any animal I've owned and I've owned a lot of different animals.a friend brought it over and it had a broken wing and broken leg and had been that way for a few days.the leg healed ok but the wing didnt.I was keeping it in a cat carrier and had to wear leather gloves to handle it at first until I sat on the floor and opened the door of the cage and let it come out and check me out.From that moment on that raven took me on as it's mate and trusted me with everything.They mate for life so if you can get one when it's young it will take you on as its mate and you can do anything with it.Within 1 month it was already saying 4 different words and it followed me everywhere.My neighbors dog broke his chain and killed it when we were in the driveway about 6 months later and I was heartbroken.When you looked in this birds eyes it was like looking into a humans eyes that was stuck in a birds body.It was truley amazing.
Hey,i saw you love ravens and crows too so i decided to share with you.From an year and half these beautiful black friends follows me almost everywhere.I don't know how to describe it but twice(day and the another day)a crow was stopping and just like seeing if i am getting home then flew away..Sometimes even there have not one,even two of them.I feel like that happened from the day I found dead raven near the road and buried him because one of my friends started to joke around and kicked him around like he was nothing more than a dead flash..I stopped him and just got the bird in my hands and buried the crow or raven(before i didn't recognized them as i'm doing now)and from that day I feel like some of the other birds who was there(ravens and crows,both) like told to each other about that and i feel like they can recognize me and kinda protect me..I shared because many think that i'm crazy or imaging things and after i saw one fact you mentioned on that video i think that i'm right on believing in that!
When I was a kid going to school I had a pet Raven I walk to school and the raven come down and sit on my shoulders while I walk to school then after I get out of school here come and sit on my shoulder I'll walk home very smart bird
When I drove a dumptruck, there was a large population of ravens at the rock quarry. Multiple times a day, I would throw stale bread out the window to the ground. One got brave early, landing on my mirror mount, and holding it's beak open like a baby bird wanting to be fed. I would talk calmly, saying, " Hey Buddy, how are you today?" He would take his favorite treat (peanut butter&cheese crackers) from my fingers. How did he pick my truck out from all the hundreds of almost identical dumptrucks? They must have the ability to recognise a particular human face. Hopefully, he is out there today, lighting on someone else's mirror mount saying, " Hey buddy, how are you today?"
I have about four that hang around my house because of the peanuts I feed my squirrels. I've been having a hard time trying to figure out if they are crows or ravens, so this is very helpful. I'll have to pay attention tomorrow and see if I can tell. The one thing that has been standing out to me is the very peculiar noises they make, its so fascinating! Like coos and gurgles, all types of noises like that. I would love to get close to them like I am with the squirrels!
This happened to me too! I put the peanuts out for the Scrubjays but the crows discovered them. I had a family of three, Mom and two babies, that have now grown up in the tree near me and call me Ma whenever I come outside. I wanted to see if I walked around the neighborhood would they follow me and they do, so now I carry the peanuts with me on my walks and feed them in different places. They are very versatile and super smart and family oriented.
I saw a group of crows kill another one. It was horrible! Didn't know what was happening so I drove my car through the group several times to get them to disperse but to no avail. They would not leave him alone. Every time he got even two feet off the ground one would swoop and knock him down again. Along with a hummingbird homicide it ranks as one of my least favorite animal experiences.
They can speak chicken if something important happens . Saw a crow talking to my rooster the day after a meteor fireball exploded. The crow was speaking chicken & the rooster was answering in chicken.
Yes,I usually feed crows & Ravens,,and they communicate to you,,soon they'll call their friends & family knowing you'll feed them,!;) Very smart old Crow once said,a crow as friend is crow till the end,no crow flies till that friend is acknowledged,!;))
My grandpa used tell us a story. The story of gruncle crow. He was in Alaska on a cruise and at one of the stops he was leaning against a wooden guard rail and a crow landed down aways from him. He kinda jokingly put his hand out to see if it would get in his hand and the crow hopped over to his hand. The crow pulled out one of his own feathers and put it in my grandpa's hand. A native American across the street at the gas station seen this and walked over to my grandpa and told him he was accepted by the crow and that they are brother's. He told us about spirit totems and what the crow meant so I grew up believing the crow to be my spirit animal. He taught us how to call for crows when we would go fishing. But about a year ago I thought maybe I just inherited the idea and asked the great powers of the universe to show me my spirit guide. Since then groups of three crows show up at pivotal moments when I feel like I'm getting off track. They remind me I'm on the path.
I was thoroughly shocked the day I watched a crow nab and fly off with a baby opossum. Don't know what happened after that, but I'm sure it wasn't good for the opossum...
3:55 Ha!! As a teen, when I walked to and from school and also spent many hours per week walking for pleasure and exercise, I gradually noticed that at certain points during my weekly schedule, what seemed like the same medium sized crow would be perched somewhere high up watching me with apparent interest. I felt like s/he had noticed my schedule and was making a hobby of people-watching me, but that seemed kinda silly. I guess not!
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Are crows and ravens enemies? Or do they sometimes get along with one another?
I read somewhere that there is a limit to how long a crow will recognize a human face. 3 years sticks in my head but cannot confirm.
I don’t know but you have the most beautiful bird lady voice I’ve ever heard ♥️
I was a custodian at a high school. After lunch I would find fast-food bags littering our athletic field. Watching to catch the perps after lunch I watched as a murder of crows gathered on the fence separating the parking lot from the field. Thinking nothing of it still awaiting the offender the young men and women were returnijng from lunch, and all dutifully dropped their bags into garbage cans or the backs of their pick up trucks. As soon as the students were gone, one by one as if picking pre-assigned targets the murder launched, gathered their booty and began to fly back and spread out over the entire field sorting through and occasionally tipping their heads back to swallow fries as if they were deep fried worms. What could I do but thank God for good students and job security, and an opening my eyes to a different perspective now adding an unknown variable here and there as I finished picking up the litter.
A crow's memory is amazing. So to their credit, they remember good things too. I was outside on a lunch break once, and noticed a bunch of crows trying to get into a to-go box in the trash. So I walked over and took the to-go box out of the trash, and put it on the picknick table and opened it for them. It had left over salad and grapes. So I went back over to the other table, and finished my lunch... at the same time the crows were eating their left over salad. Interesting to note, about four crows would eat, and four would stay in the trees to look out, then they would switch out, and the guys in the trees had their fair turn to eat. Well, the whole time they kept looking in my direction, and before they finished the salad, they all got together in the tree and had a for real conversation, and one of them flew down, picked up some grapes, and flew over to my table. He was obviously afraid, but it was so important to him to do the right thing. He hopped over and set the grapes down in front of me, like my share of the take. I helped, so I get a share. And he stayed, he wouldn't leave until he saw me eat a grape. So they feel a necessity to fulfill obligations. And they kept bringing me things through the month. Like they saw people smoke, so they brought me cigaret buts. They brought me food from God knows where, which I never ate, remembered I ate grapes, and then only brought me grapes. We had a little relationship going.
That is one of the coolest stories ever. I have tried luring them to our yard with peanuts. They don't seem to be too interested or they wait til I'm gone. They are just so intriguing
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Try some dried cat food..
I been feeding mixed nuts brazils, walnuts, pecans, cashews, hazlenuts etc, to a few crows at work (London) for a bit, when i'm on shift, if i throw nuts on the floor they wait til i've dissapeared, well far enough away before they swoop down, i've noticed about 3 or 4 crows, one biggest one another a little smaller and one or two small crows, a family i'd say. The biggest one the dad i presume is getting braver and swoops down for nuts i've chucked on the floor much sooner and closer. When i walk out the building i whistle once and chuck a few nuts look back as i'm walking off and they are swooping to the floor, lately now he's flew overhead in the morning giving out a low volume caw, like saying hey, nuts? lol, they've probably learnt my shift pattern and know what days i'm in haha
So far they ain't brought me shit lol.
Hollylivengood what an amazing and wonderful story! I adore crows and ravens and would love to make such a connection with a group like that.
That's an awesome story!!
I know that crows have a similar concept of "fun" to humans.
Whenever it's snowy, I look across the street to the house opposite and see a bunch of crows sliding down the roof. Then they fly back up and get in a queue to do it again.
It fascinated me 5 years ago, and it still fascinates me now.
That is awesome
I think they also have a sense of humor.
Omg ! Yes that’s what my Julio does 🤣👏 he drops rocks 🪨 then slides on his butt down the roof to get it 😂 he looks like he’s having a blast 💥 lol
No creepy stories, but I once had a crow that wanted to trade a pencil for my ham sandwich. I was so dumbstruck I actually agreed.
So adorable, thanks for sharing that experience you had. They are truly awesome birds!
DragonLovingGirl6 lol
Never had a bird do this but my dog does it often.
DragonLovingGirl6 I hope you still have that pencil and keep it forever! ❤️
LMFAO! That's hilarious!
Here in Australia crows have learned to press the button at road crossings to stop cars, traffic cameras have even seen them dropping nuts onto the road and waiting for the cars to crush them, then pressing the button and walking out to eat their food. They're seriously smart birds!
Australian white necked Ravens can talk
Ha!
While we're talking about the Australian crow family. Australian magpies are little bastards
Morrison Family>> All species of ravens and crows can learn to imitate human speech.
CardCaptorDeadpool>> Being little bastards requires intelligence.
A while back, I was sitting down eating hot chips at a Cafe and I heard someone talking and whimpering behind me. I turned around and nobody else was around.
I continued eating and heard it again and this time being thoroughly creeped out I stood up and turned around. I had no idea it was the crow sitting on the ground behind me so I took a couple steps to look around the corner to see if there was somebody there. Nobody was there...
I turned back to my table and the crow was eating my chips.
I shooed it away and when it landed on the ground It started making whimpering crying sounds again.
I was amaized at how smart this bird was, using the sound of a crying person to distract people so it could steal from them lol
I found a young injured crow in the 80's my father and myself nursed him back to good health. He imprinted on me and would not leave and belive me we tried! So "Walter" became a member of the family and my best friend. He had a large vocabulary. And was a big silly ham when the kids in the neighborhood gave him an attention. He lived many years and gave me many good times. I think of him often and still miss him a lot. Like I said Walt was my best friend.
EH that's a nice story
Yes that's so sweet ❤️❤️❤️
So what happened to the bird ?
When I was 7&8 my grandfather had a crow, it was a riot
When your time on earth is finished, in an instance you will travel across the universe to a wonderful place...and your friend will be there to welcome you
You mentioned ravens or crows gathering like a funeral at the death of one of their members .30 years ago my mother had green houses . She use to wash the used pots out in a wheel barrow . The ravens were her friends , they use to ride on the edge of the wheel barrow , and walk , following her around the yard . The day she died , ravens lined the gutters of her house , shoulder to shoulder for an entire day . How could they have known ? Makes me think theres more to their abilities than we are aware of ?
That's so cool
😭 ♥️ Beautiful tale. Thanks for sharing! I love my ravens that visit me everyday when I am in the garden. They cackle and knock around my bedroom window if I'm up too late (to give them treats 😁). They even called me mom just like my kids. I wish they were not so skittish.
True! My sister and I are researching about ravens to discover more secrets. We believe there's more than their letting on
They see and hear E V E R Y T H I N G !
Wow. Your Mom sounds awesome....
I have a crow call (They're used to locate turkeys) and sometimes I'll mimic them while I'm fishing. I'll usually try to repeat a crow. If it caws three times, I'll caw three times and so on.
So a crow comes over and starts cawing. It caws 5 times, then 4, then 3 and it leads me in a countdown to 1 then counts back up to 7 with me copying it.
I was thinking, OMG! This crow is showing me it can count. Then when it gets back up to 7 it sort of tilts it head then flys away, calling it's murder of pals.
Then I realized it wasn't showing me that it could count, it was seeing if I could count. And apparently it was surprised so it flew back to tell its family.
Staying in a house with a walled garden in Romania, an old raggedy crow got stuck, couldn't fly out of the garden. Either too old, or injured. His crow family kept watch, mobbed me if I got too close, cawed and threatened from the apple trees (the garden was an orchard), and used to feed the old bird several times a day. The raggedy crow would hop up on a rusty, rotting see-saw and climbed to the highest point. Younger crows dropped down to the garden and fed the old crow like a chick, stuffing food into the old one's beak. Quite astonishing behaviour - wonderful to watch.
In their early youth, my father, James, and his identical twin, Amos, left their farm home in early spring to explore the far reaches of their 180 acres. Amos carried a .22 rifle. On approach, the boys spied a murder of crows rummaging in the corn rubble. Amos fired upon and killed a crow. The surviving crows flew into and waited on the edge of the woods. The boys ran to examine the carcass and Amos raised high his trophy.
In late autumn near harvest, the boys returned to that same area of their land though without the .22. A group of crows flew out of the woods and mobbed Amos who held his hands to his head while running for home. The crows did not bother James. Identical twins or not, the crows knew; the crows remembered.
My name is James and crows follow and protect me. They know what’s going to happen way before we do as well.
Wow!
Where I live, I have a lot of birds that "visit" my property, crows in particular. I started leaving a plate of dog food on top of an arbor I have near the garden and one day I went to get the plate to give them more treats and found a few items on it. There was a marble, a piece of broken jewelry and a red matchbox car! I guess I got a tip! Since then, I often find little gifts on the plate! So much fun to see what they'll leave next!
Wow, that's amazing! We've been feeding a family of crows for over a year now but they haven't tipped us anything yet hehe.
That is so cool!
I'd love for my visitors to leave objects but they seem content to simply take all the food and cache elsewhere. I wondered if it were possible to maybe leave a coin in the empty plate and then have them observe me replacing the coin with food. Ultimately they might get the idea to go around the neighborhood picking up the loose coins and bringing them to the plate
Crows will sometimes bring gifts in exchange for food
That's a fantastic idea!
I had a crow divebomb me everyday for almost a week . I saw a documentary on crows and found out about how they recognized certain things and even faces. I stoped wearing my red baseball hat and the divebombimg ceased.
The city Workers where I live who cut down trees wear red hats! Guess they cut down someone’s home and the crows thought I was the culprit! Since then, I find crows&Ravens fascinating.
I knew someone that would trade with a flock of crows. He would give them food and they'd give him something shiny that they found. Usually trinquets, sometimes coins.
Once, he got curious. Just as the crow went for the food, he made them aware that he had more before setting it down a bit away from the first one. The crow looked at him, both piles of food the trinquet then the food again before flying off. He returned a short time later with a ring to add to his offering.
Kind of suggests that they can have a sense of value
phillippi2 yep lol
Attila Goda Yes-and seagulls on the west coast pick up clams, carry them to a good height, and drop them in order to break them open and get the food inside. Birds are pretty smart critters, some more so than others!
phillippi2 Vietnamese folk tale has this story. Once a crow ate most of the fruits of a star fruit tree, the owner of the tree trapped him for punishment, the crow said don’t worry i eat your fruits I will pay for it with gold, just prepare bag to receive it.
@@TrangNguyen-tn9pb Wow cool. I'll bet that folk story is based in truth too. Are the crows in Vietnam the ones with the white stripe?
Honestly I heard a story similar to that although it was with a girl
I witnessed a crow funeral once. 12-15 crowd gathered in the trees around the dead bird. They looked at their fallen comrade in dead silence for 20-30 minutes. Then flew off in silence. It was rather strange.
Scott Montgomery seen that as well
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How long does the average crow live is my only question?
Jason Random I googled it. 7-8 years.
My wife and I walk at the lake often and suddenly heard a group of crows making a big deal about something, when we walked down to see why... We found 2 dead mallard ducks that were dead beside each other. I thought of it as a kind of Memorial by the crows.
A crow came to my door and knocked when I was a kid using his beak. I gave to him pepperonis to eat. And he would fly back to his friends in a tree n share with them. And come back for more. Then, they flew over me as a walked to school. This lasted 4 days!!!!! True story.
Chantel x0x0 i used to work at an open air restaurant and a crow would come everyday around 11am and grab a pack of splenda
Protectors perhaps..
Chantel x0x0 I had the very same thing happened to me!!! I was 14 years old...the same year we went to the moon for the first time! 1969....
Chantel x0x0 same thing happened to me when I was a kid!
fucking sick!!!! i was thinking to myself, imagine having a bunch of crows just follow you. that would be pretty fucking epic imo.
Back in the 90's, I flew hang gliders, mostly in the mountains of So Cal. That's when I really learned about crows. Most other birds were off all day in search of food, but not crows. I believe they are so smart that food gathering is a small task for them. Why? Because they spend most of their day playing, and not just simple stuff. How do I know? I've watched them for countless hours at hang gliding launch sites play really dangerous games with each other. Here's an example. Good ridge lift on the side of the mountain and the first crow announces and then flies along the ridge until folding his wings to his body, inverting upside down, and plummets toward the rocks below, only to flip over and barely recover by spreading his wings just before crashing into the rocks. Then one after another are vocally challenged to do better, which they do, just for the fun of it, over and over. Some of the death defying recoveries, trying to outdo the previous and impress the crow crowd, are beyond stunning. Of course the media doesn't care about this, but folks, these are really smart creatures.
only a few crows should called an 'attempted murder'
Sharon Poffinberger is a juvenile crow called a “man slaughter”?
Good one!
But what constitutes manslaughter of crows?
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I’m ‘friends’ with a group of crows. For the past 10 years or so they’ve followed me during my walks and recently brought a baby crow to meet me. (I bring them treats so that’s how it all started) The first time the main crow realized I was a friend he did barrel rolls in the sky above me. I’ve met about 4 generations of them I think. I wish I had made a journal of this but at the time I had no idea they’d remember me for so many years!
I want to befriend a murder of crows, both for the companionship and so I can summon them to harass my enemies.
ghostofdayinperson LOL
ghostofdayinperson lol
I would love for them to come to me!!
Pretty cool Danya! Let’s hope. Lots of woods near me. I hear the crows all the time!
err, you have "enemies"? are you in a South American soap opera?
When I was a kid in the 70's in southern California we had a big backyard with a pool. One day I was walking to school, and found a crow with a wounded wing, or so it appeared. It was in some ivy on the ground. I picked him up, and a janitor at school kept him for me until after. I took it home, got worms for him. Eye dropper for water. Made a nice safe place for him. Anyway, in about a week, he got better. I figured it was time to see if he could fly away. Although I wanted him to live on my shoulder! 😁 But I helped him, and got him to fly. He flew up and perched on the wires way up across the yard. He groomed a little, squawked a little. Then flew away. A day later he came back, and brought me a top of a soda can, the tap that you used to pull off. Then a few days later he brought this beautiful flat bead, like from a bracelet. He brought me shiny things for about a month. Then I don't recall him coming back, but maybe he did. I'll always remember that. Always.
Dirty Sanchez I probably blasted him, all crows must die!
Greg Flores You’re sick buddy
I have a raven that loves my chickens (as friends) and hangs out near their area. He sits in a tree above them and imitates their sound to get them to come out. He also flies into their pen and walks around with them eating their scratch like he is a chicken too. He comes every day to visit!!
Mom Unplugged Would love to hear your raven talk and act like a chicken🐓
Chickens are very smart also. I have lots of chicken friends😊
Here’s one of many funny chicken/animal stories
We had a black and white hen that would sing and strut up a storm every time she laid an egg, out doing all of the other hens in the hen house
She could hit the high notes so I named her Aretha Franklin.
One day when I after I finished collecting the eggs I went back into the hen house because one hen was reluctant to give up her eggs, so I left her alone and collected all of the eggs from all of the other hens
On my return the reluctant hen let me have her eggs when Aretha (who was in the nesting box right next door so to speak) started squawking, singing while sitting on her nest I looked over saying hello Aretha when she stood up looking right at me then looked down at her nest.....I looked in the nest and found a beautiful freshly laid pink colored egg, it was so fresh that it was still soft, she must have laid it while I was gathering the eggs in the other hen houses
It appeared that she wanted me to have it so I carefully picked it up placing it in my basket and thanked her for the beautiful egg.
She was such a good and entertaining hen....all of them were and I have dozens of farm animal stories
Mom Unplugged Love your monicker!
We have a flock of 10 chickens in a fenced-in run. We've had ravens around the outside of the run, but never made friends with the chickens. Then again, my chickens are at the opposite end of the intelligence spectrum! It has been known, though, when crows and ravens are around, hawks are not.
I have been feeding the crows at my office for years. They know my car, and fly with my car as I drive up to the building. When I walk out to toss peanuts and goodies to them, there is one crow who apparently wants to reciprocate, because he has dropped a pecan at my feet several times. They are remarkable, extremely intelligent creatures.
Rachel Alexander Next time crack the nut with your foot. The bird will love you even more.
Katerina Kiaha Thanks, Katerina! I’ll do that!!
Rachel Alexander You are welcome. 🐦☺
I do this too! They know me and my car.
I've fed the crows at work for about 8 months now.
I go outside about 3 times a day and hive them a little snack.
If I'm late they will knock on the glass. lol
One day when they came when I called them and brought me aluminum foil. Dropped it by me and went to eat.
It's a grassy area so I'm unsure if they've brought anything else.
@@MagnoliaMS70 : Wow! They REALLY like you, because crows love shiny things, so giving you a piece of aluminum foil that is shiny was a real gift for that crow to give to you! Better than a pecan! A real treasure to a crow! 😀
We had a wild born blind adult Crow living with the family as a pet for just over 10 years. It learnt to understand a lot of English but never spoke. Instead it would mime out what it wanted whilst yelling at us in Crow language so we'd learn the call for something.
Our Crow as called "Blackie" and had his own custom built house complete with heated perch.
During the day he'd hang out in the garden and be visited by members of his Crow "clan" and a tame wild giant Wood Pidgeon, who'd act as his bodyguard and attack any Magpies that attempted to steal from his daytime food bowl.
When an interloper Crow kept stealing from Blackie's daytime food bowl and was caught attacking Blackie by the other Crows they held a parliament in a tree in the field at the bottom of the garden (so Blackie could be involved) and the bad Crow was there. After over an hour of Crows cawing, the Crows chased the bad Crow away and we never saw it again.
I stood with Blackie on my hand during these proceedings after coming out to see what all the racket was about. Blackie asked to be picked up and carried. He was doing a lot of the cawing and the other were listening, then others would take a turn at cawing, etc.
Kind of a once in a lifetime experience to be invited to spectate a Crow parliament from directly next to the tree where it was being held.
That sounds.. so fucking amazing like not kidding. I always wondered if animals sense goodness in us and pick the right person to see their "lifestyle" that's a moment right there.
Andy Reid awesome story, lucky you☺️
Andy Reid Maybe our U.S. Congress could learn a thing or two from the crows instead of crowing nonsense on their own
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@Andy Reid BLACKIE!! I read your comment on one of the Falconry And Me videos where you told the story of Blackie.
ANOTHER BLACKIE STORY!!!
Blackie sounds like he was the best. (And his stories sound like they could make up a prize-winning novel. (Seriously.))
I've read a lot of the crow/raven/corvid stories from the comments of these videos, but I think Blackie's is the one that has stuck with me the most. Definitely one of my favorites. I'm a big fan.
So excited to find another story in the Blackie saga. Hope i stumble across another someday.
Crows are known for their loud cawing, but they can do a lot more vocalizing than that. I was eating lunch under a large tree at a park a few years ago, and there was about 7 crows high above me in the tree. They were at rest and hunched down on their perches. Over the next 20 minutes or so, they made a very wide range of bizarre and unexpected noises. These sounds included high-pitched whistling, moaning sounds, hissing, and what sounded like people whispering in another room. All the sounds were delivered quietly, with some barely audible. I'm an ornithologist, but the sheer number of different sounds they made astonished me, never having heard this before. They definitely seemed to be communicating with each other in a complex way that went beyond the normal singing or "danger" or "I found food" calls that most birds make. It was one of the most interesting and bizarre things I've ever witnessed.
ravens and crows are so FIERCELY intelligent...ive known people who have trained them to recognize,find and retrieve missing objects for their owners...i even heard a story of a guy who befriended a murder of crows to the point where whenever he would go to the park they would bring him presents in the form of small shiny objects,including money!
About 15 yrs ago there was a single crow who hung out around the dumpster next to a restaurant near where I did my shopping in CA. It was walking around on the sidewalk when a restaurant employee came out with a bag of trash. Then I noticed one of the crow's wings was dragging on the ground and it looked really pitiful. It followed the guy around while he dumped the bag and went back inside the back door of the restaurant. When the crow realized he/she wasn't going to get anything, it waited a minute or so, tucked it's wing back up and flew up to sit on top of a tall light post in the parking lot, where it made some angry sounding calls before flying away. I saw this crow at least one other time wandering around the sidewalk by this restaurant with it's wing tip dragging whenever someone with the restaurant uniform was visible. Hilarious and it taught me just how smart these birds are.
Raven father: Okay son, it's time to fly with the conspiracy
Raven son: The what?
Raven father: AKA the undkindness
Raven son: Uhhhh.....
Raven father: Life is cruel, son. Now get your wings flapping!
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Those large gatherings are sort of like proms for the youngsters. While the young birds frolic and meet new friends and potential mates, the adults keep watch and stand guard. It's fascinating to watch.
For the past few years my young daughter has, each morning, prepared food to feed the crows around her home. They now have an established routine whereby the crows will each bring a "gift" for her. This may be a button, piece of alfoil, bottle top, the ring pull from a can of soft drink, a clothes peg - anything really!! She has also told me she can recognise a fair few individual birds, and that some have even brought their offspring too - who also follow "etiquette". I think it's amazing in what she has achieved!! 👍
My father was a true Nature Guy who could charm even wild animals. He ended up with a pet crow this way. The crow just showed up and... stayed. I was a little girl at the time, and every night I'd visit Edgar on his perch in my dad's workshop (yeah, Edgar Allen Crow) and my dad would supervise as I interacted with him. It was so fun! Edgar was friendly, sneaky and clever. My dad cared for him for about 7 years, I think. (Near the end of his life, my dad opened the front door to find a white dove standing there. The dove just walked into the house and stayed, usually sitting on my dad's shoulder or perching nearby. My dad liked to call it the Holy Spirit. The dove disappeared when my dad died.)
That's incredible. Anyone who can get that close to animals is a pure soul indeed.
I observed one time a young crow feeding an old crow french fries I threw on the ground for them. The old crow was in bad shape, But the young crow was feeding the old crow the fries piece by piece, To me that was wonderful🙂
Wonderful video! These birds are really underappreciated.
Agreed
they eat shit that's why. but they have their place
when i was young my father got a young crow. we clipped his wings and he would walk around the neighborhood and sometimes bring us other peoples house keys(maybe from other peoples hiding spots?). One time my brother was working on a chainsaw in the back and the crow kept trying to get my brother to play with him, but my brother ignored him. When he left it alone to come in to have lunch the crow went over and took four identical bolts and hid each one under a different leaf. Another time I was the only person home and in bed and I could hear the crow pecking on my window for me to come out and play with him. A little later I was awoke by the door bell ! I got up and checked and just the crow was there! I cant say for sure, but I think that the crow flew up and pressed the button. I always talk to crows when I see them.
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Absolutely without question have loved crows and ravens since childhood. I remember vividly when I had a condo where I could feed and care for them. They would literally follow my car home, fly over the condo complex where I lived, and would wait for me in the backyard for their treats. Usually one of the larger dominant ones would put out the call as if to say "he's home, come and get it!". Sure enough the flock would respond and come flying up the hill from the valley below. They are really an enjoyable bird to be with.
Today I was attacked by a crow. My husband and I wanted to have a picnic in a park. This crow came to attack a second time and I was already bleeding on the head from the first event. We had enough and drove home only to find out that our 90 year old neighbor,who lives on his own, was shouting for our help. He had a fall in his garden and could not get up.Without the aggressive crow we would have stayed the afternoon away from home. Praise God.
Friend, Covid 19 has proved that never believe in old superstitions like crows. Anything can happen anytime. Success means using your talent and skills to the best of your ability. Relax your mind--Thank God and be grateful for what you have.
That crow probably wanted to protect its children, but it also protected an old man. What a great story, everyone ends up fine (except your head, ouch).
I rescued a baby hooded crow and I bring him to fly everyday. Other hooded crows attack him viciously but the other species leave him alone. Sometimes, magpies and rooks play with him, but his own species won't. Territoriality? Most probably, if he was in the wild he'd be hanging around with his family and they would have their own territory and he wouldn't be getting attacked so much. And it's true that he has a sound for me: he copies my laugh and won't do that when there's anyone else around.
interesting Raven facts
in Norse mythology, Odin has 2 ravens that fly around the world every day and bring important news to him
in the Viking Age, to kill someone in battle was to make "Raven's meat"
In lore of indigenous tribes of the Pacific Northwest, Ravens were once pure white, but in defiance of gods, one of them flew to the sun and brought back an ember to people to make fire, his feathers were burned black and as continuing punishment for defying the gods, all his kin were turned black
also in Oregon, there is a flock of pure white Ravens, they are NOT albino, their eyes are black
Where in Oregon?
Which tribe?
Inuits believe crow brought the light for half the year. There are rainbow crow legends that crow sacrificed his color to the water. There's a legend that crow brought fire from the great spirit to warm up the land, but ended up getting burned, therefore turning black and losing his beautiful singing voice, and also creator made his meat taste bad so humans wouldn't eat them, or cage them.
Each tribe has different legends
Im from Vancouver Island , Weve seen 2 pure white ravens , On in Qualicum and one in Langford .
My grandfather had a pet crow which could talk in his aunt's voice then answer in his voice. It could also bark like a dog, and liked to steal pens. It eventually flew off to his own life.
Wow
If you save a crows life he'll never forget you and will try to return the favour by helping you if you're ever in danger
Just later last year I befriended the crows in my neighbourhood. There aren’t many but I often feed and converse with them. Because of the lack of crows in my area (and my keen interest in them) I’d like to find more. As much as I’d love to chill out with them at a cemetery, more or less observe them, I think people might find me creepier than I actually am...
BL as long as your not there to pick up a date your alright. The crows will recognize you and your behavior
You don't have to hang out at a cemetery, they are everywhere...LOL.
I always want to motion to them in public but I know ppl would think I’m crazy lol
Hello crow people, i grew up raising crows that fell out of their nests,13 in all. my grandfather started the whole crow thing, he had one named Pete for a pet in1918. and all of my crows went back to the wild but one. And yes his name was Pete. He would follow me across town to my Grandparents home & my Uncle's. He would show up at my junior high school walk around the window sills until he found me and when he did he would start crowing until i petted him & sent him on his way. he would wake us up every morning waiting for a snack to start his day, I'm so thankful to of had pete for a friend.
I used to work with a bloke who had worked as a plant operator on some of the beef development roads in the Northern Territory. Every day they would leave camp and drive to where they had parked up their machines the previous night. They would take with them drinking water and styrofoam coolers with a bags of ice and their lunches in them. They would move the machines to where they had been working the day before and then come back to the park up area for lunch. Every day when they stopped for lunch, they would find that one of the coolers had a hole in one end and a hole in the lid and some item of food would be missing. At first they thought it was a goanna doing it, but soon realized that a goanna would have just torn the cooler apart to get at the food, instead of making two small neat holes in it.
One day they decided to solve the mystery once and for all. They all went to work, went through the same routine of putting the coolers under a shady tree and went off to work. Once they had reached the work area, two of the men got off their machines and walked back to the park up area and hid in the bushes. After a few minutes, a crow flew in and landed on one of the tree branches above the food coolers. He had a good look around to make sure there was no one else about and then flew down and landed on top of one of the coolers. He then pecked a hole in the lid and put his head into it and had a good look at what was inside. When he had decided on what he thought was the tastiest looking of the food inside, he hopped onto the ground and pecked a hole in the side of the cooler, dragged out a plastic wrapped package of sandwiches and flew off to have his lunch!
Not only had this crow found a very reliable source of fresh food, he had also worked out a way of choosing what he ate and how to get it without expending too much energy. Crows are my favorite type of birds. It's hard not to admire that sort of intelligence.
TombstoneHeartcrows are smart. They always have a lookout and when a car comes along they call out car, car and the one on the ground flies away.
In the front of the flat I live in there is a chestnut tree and only a good 10 or so metre away there is a road where cars come and go quite regularly but not constantly. I seen the crows never time during autumn to pick up chestnuts and drop it front of cars to have the cars cracking them open. Then they fly down and eat it in relative safety given cars only move around ten or so minutes in avarage.
Ravens have 17 pinions (main flight feathers) on each wing, while crows have only 16. So, the chief difference between ravens and crows is nothing more than a matter of a pinion.
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I have a crow that has learned that when my dog is outside barking, I come out to get her to bring her inside so the crow will wait for me on my neighbors garage roof because it knows I'll leave it some peanuts. It all started about a year ago when I noticed a crow in a tree and decided to leave some peanuts out for it on a tree stump. After doing that for a few months (dog outside barking, I go out to get her, I see the crow, I leave it peanuts rinse/repeat) now each time my dog barks, it will land on my neighbors garage roof right outside my back door waiting for me to go outside to get her. There are a few other dogs around me, but when they bark I never see the crow land on the garage roof or even in the trees outside. It only happens when my dog starts barking that it might take a minute or two before I see the crow on the roof waiting for me to come outside with peanuts. So I believe that it has learned both my dogs bark, because it doesn't do it for other dogs and that when she is outside barking I'll be out there to have something for it.
I haven't quite got it to take any peanuts out of hand yet and that's ok, but it now allows me to stand right next to the tree stump I leave the peanuts on. My girlfriend has tried to stand next to the stump, both by herself and with me standing there with her but the crow won't fly down from the garage until she walks away. So it only lets me get close and I think that's kind of cool lol. And even though crows are almost impossible to tell apart, I know it's the same crow because it's the only one that ever lands on the garage roof or will fly down to the stump while I'm still standing there. The others just hang out in the tree waiting for me to leave.
Same thing but different. Every morning i air out my apartment so i open the front door fully. Once a crow sat on the railing outside the door peeking inside. I went all enthusiastic, talked to it a bit and remembered i had bird peanut butter. That's how the whole thing started. Now when my front door is open, it will come over. The open door has become the open/closed sign. At some point i got introduced to a smaller one that now comes along with the big one but is still pretty much too scared to come over. So i put his/her peanuts behind the railing and move away so it feels protected by it, that seems to work. Also, when i have chicken for dinner i give them the scraps. Open the door, whistle and 5 secs later they're there. :) Sometimes they don't come over and just sit in the big tree in front of my house. That's usually when i have my hair up... When i take it down and go "come on!" the big one immediately flies over. :D
When my grandpa was alive he had a fairly large garden that took up most of his back yard, it was truly beautiful. I know that sounds odd calling a garden beautiful but it really was, he took a lot of pride in it and every day he'd tend to it. There was a section where'd he grow corn for us and then across from that he'd grow corn feed for his cow (yes just 1 cow lol). My grandpa had a daily routine with every vegetable in his garden like putting down home made pesticides, testing the crops to see if they were ready or needed something to help them grow correctly/healthy. I don't remember how he did it but my grandpa had a way of testing the corn he was growing for his cow to see if it was ready. Just like clockwork he'd wait till the next day to have us grandkids pick it so he wouldn't have to bend over too much and when the next day came almost half of it would be gone. Obviously he knew it was the crows and even though it annoyed him he kinda thought it was funny. Through out the entire time he'd check the corn while it was growing it wouldn't be touched up until that last check up. It's crazy but they knew when it was ready everytime and to me that's hilarious because that shows they could've ate it while it was growing but didn't because they liked the tasted when it was ready. There really wasn't much he could do, yeah he could've shot them but it was just corn feed, no big deal. So he planted a special row for the crows so they'd leave the other alone and for the most part they did, the whole thing was just hilarious. Lol
Thank you, Lesley!!! I've rehabbed songbirds and birds of prey for many years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Corvids have to be my favorites, probably due to their level of intelligence. I so appreciate what you do, and the educational information you provide to the general bird loving public.
When a group of them get together and keep cawing loudly, it usually rains within 24 hours. Sometimes there is severe weather.
Although this seems like superstitions, I’m sure there is an explanation to it. Maybe they can sense the atmospheric pressure change?
You are a wealth of info.........love crows and ravens..........thanks
You are very welcome, and thanks a lot for the nice comment :)
Back when I was in high school a murder of crows would follow me to and from the school on my daily walk. They never bothered me, they were just there. They'd also sit in the trees outside my house in the evening. There was 15-20 of them. That was about 3 years ago. Now there are 5 or 6 crows that have started gathering around my work when I'm in the yard. Idk if some of them are same crows or if it's just a coincidence, but I think it's pretty neat.
I drove a taxi for a while in the '90s in the DFW area. At a fine high $$ hotel we drivers would be in line waiting our turn, hidden out of the way from guests viee. After a fare drop we'd come back around to end of the line, rotating our turns. When the doorman needed a cab, he would whistle for next cab for the fare. Their luggage was loaded before to be ready for pick up, door open like a limo driver. One day, after several times, the doorman insisted each cab was not whistled for. We all heard him. We finally realized that a crow was whistling for us when it saw the doorman bringing out luggage on a dolly. He had to change to a whistle & then wave of his hand to confirm it was him & not another crow. Yep, they are smart...HUGS2U
Regarding crows killing crows... I live in Wales where I am fortunate to have lots of crows (and rooks, magpies, jays & ravens) around and it's said here that crows hold courts/trials, the 'accused' is in the middle of a gathering of crows (all on the ground) and they get quite vocal, then presumably they come to a consensus one way of the other and if found guilty they carry out a punishment, which involves the 'court/jury' attacking the 'guilty' party (sometimes killing the crow), interestingly the 'guilty' crow doesn't seem to fight back. I don't know if the trial/jury/sentence is entirely true or just an old wives tale but I have seen them do the gathering in a circle around a single crow, get raucous and then attack the one in the middle, so they definitely do something weird... you would think the 'accused' would just fly off but they don't they just stand and wait for the outcome. Here is an example (of the second half at least): ruclips.net/video/7liZdySa-IU/видео.html
Another interesting thing is that we also have a lot of birds of prey (Red Kites, Buzzards, Peregrine Falcons, to name but a few) some of which are a lot bigger than crows but the crows always escort the birds of prey out of their territory, and the bigger bird goes, this makes sense when there are 3/4 crows to one bird of prey but sometimes it's just one crow and still the bigger bird keeps clear ;)
I have 2 life size ravens that are made from resin that hang on my wall. I ordered them from a Toscano catalog, but I have seen them elsewhere. Incredibly life like. Look exactly like 2 ravens perched on branches. My pride and joy. They are in remembrance of my raven friends I left behind when I moved, ( Topper and Boo ). I couldn’t tell them apart by appearance, only by behavior.
Funny but my I moved into a new place and befriended 2 others. Blessed
I love crows. Everytime i see one, Its like im hypnotized.
I've been like that for over 50 years. They are our spirit animals.
I witnessed the raven “conspiracy” in Mesa Verde National Park this summer. I was actually above them and many ravens kept coming and joining the circling. Unreal!!
Every evening thousands of crows fly to this nature preserve near my house. It's really neat to watch
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The same thing goes for this one parking lot near a restaurant I usually go to. Tons of crows started gathering there which made it awesome to observe (sometimes I see a few crows preening each other)
Thank god for nature preserves!
Thanks. Crows recognizing people. I started throwing scraps on my front yard the crows seem to be the most appreciative. At first they would fly off the utility pole when I came outside, but after a while a couple of them would stay. One would watch me in my yard. About a month after the food in my yard was being tossed every day I was coming home from work. About a mile from home I was waiting at a traffic signal when I spotted about two dozen crows sitting on a wire. Just as I started wondering if any of them were the crows I knew, they started cackling. My guess is they recognized me by my car and we're crowing, 'hey, that's that guy...' They've never done this since. I think this is like what Temple Grandin says about cows. Lay down in a cow pasture and every cow will walk over to look at you. For ten seconds. And then they'll never give you a second glance. It's not that they don't know you, it's that they do. 'Hi ya' every time an animal sees you shouldn't be expected.
Hummingbirds. I've got at least a two dozen buzzing my front porch everyday (Southern California, feeders full of nectar). Before I installed a screen door about once a month one of them would fly through the open door and then try to exit via the ceiling. I'd toss a black t-shirt to catch them to take outside. At first I would feel terrible, they go stiff in some awkward contortion and I'd think, 'oh no, I've killed it.' Nope. All fake. On several occasions, always the net day, when I would be on the other side of my house, I would get a close visit, usually hovering about 4-6 feet away, by a hummingbird. I think it's the hummingbird I'd helped. If I or Eddie, who was around my house a lot, were anywhere on our hilly neighborhood, we'd often get buzzed by hummingbirds. Clearly they recognize us and zip in for a visit.
When you go to do your hummingbird video, let me know if there's any video or stills I might provide. I've got Allens, Annas, Costas, black-chins and a big Nikon.
Back to crows. In Japan, Ueno Park in the summer evening is full of crows cawing and clicking away sharing the news before they sleep. I was walking along a quiet street and tried matching the clicking of a crow up on the wire. It responded, I responded, and then it squawked, cawed and flew off. I think I'd annoyed it so it told me off. Then I noticed two little girls in the yard of a day care or kindergarten, they'd been watching and just started laughing. I think they completely understood what had just happened.
I'm a truck driver and I stopped at a rest area in the middle of nowhere NM; and there was I believe a raven, on a telephone pole cawing loudly. I started talking to it in a mild higher pitch voice and it stopped and listened. It was obviously looking at me. When I stopped, it cawed back at me also in a softer mild tone. When I had to leave, I'd like to think it was following me. May have been a coincidence. It flew the same direction I was heading, but of course it could not keep up. It was a nice experience!
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Eric Kolb I demand a shrubbery! Nothing expensive, but nice.
My uncle caught a mouse, still in the trap, and set it out on the back deck for later disposal. From the window he saw a crow scoop the whole thing up. A while later the empty trap was back on the deck.
Although not a crow or raven specifically- Blue Jays are still pretty much like blue crows to me since they seem to act similar and being in the same family and all.
A few years back, I would have a Blue Jay that hung around and would tease my dog. It would mimic her whining noises and whine back at her and get her riled up on purpose it seemed. It, or they also would seem to eat spiders off of the house in the mornings and evenings, which was always fun to watch and appreciated, haha.
natureswildchild1 Blue jays are in the same family (corvids) as crows and ravens, so it makes sense you had noticed similarities. They are indeed quite smart.
Thanks for sharing your story, btw! Birds are amazing.
I'm guessing the narrator is Canadian...
The little black rainbows in the sky.
The gulls at ocean isle North Carolina would dig up clams and mussels along the waterway then then fly over the road and drop them to break them open. The crows would hide in the scrub on the dunes and swoop in for the clam before the gull could react. Serves he gulls right...they would swarm people carrying anything that looked edible....the crows would watch and wait for handouts or crumbs but never attack
About 10 years ago, I started to befriend my local crow family. Over the years, the family has grown to several families and they have learned what vehicles or bike I use. They will wait for me where ever they see my transport or even follow me, knowing I always carry food for them. Sometimes they don't want to eat, but have long drawn out conversations with lots of clicks, rattles and other bizarre noises. For the past couple years, that damn Avian pox has hit. Even though I clean and bleach their eating and drinking areas, I have buried about a dozen friends. In the last couple of days before death hits a bird, the flock and the sick one trusts me enough to hand feed and give them water from my hand. Every time I think the flocks are over the pox, another crow will pick it up. It's been difficult!
It's not a pretty site to see, but they still deserve caring. goo.gl/photos/RHokVbGwGjkKoDUu8
Yes, even mine know my car, too. So I believe you. When they see me coming they chase after and then perch on top of the trees waiting for me to give them peanuts and sometimes scraps from last nights supper.
That's sad about your crows, so sorry. I hate to know they are going through that.
All animals do this.....its a matter of degree and kind. The crow has a different path in life than a nuthatch or chickadee, elk or bear but I am convinced they recognize specific people if you cross paths enough.
I too lost one of my crow friends 3 years ago. They are susceptible to West Nile virus, more so than other birds probably because of their diverse diet. The surviving mate just recently hooked up with a new significant other. I hope it works out for them.
@@tigerseye73 When I was a kid just outside Washington DC, we had massive flocks of crows all over the rural and suburban areas. When West Nile First hit, maybe 20 years ago now, it was absolutely devastating. There were sick and dead crows everywhere, and it was horrible to see. We had to dispose of the dead carefully to try and prevent the spread of the disease. For years afterward there were almost no crows, but in the last 5 to 8 years the population has started to recover. The flocks are nowhere near their pre-West Nile virus numbers, but it's so nice to go outside and have one of my buddies caw at me as I walk by her tree!
Had a neighbor, really good with animals and very observant. He was telling me how he rescued a baby crow when he was younger. It was just like his dogs, always around. He would feed it with his dogs, it would be by the dogs and even climb over them on occasion. But he said it would watch him and get ready to "see" him off. He would drive off to work and see him following him. Then later in the day the crow would see him driving home and he would see it flying home following him. He was amazed how far the bird would follow him and his ability to spot his car. That could be a sound thing though as I had a dog and the ups guy would always have treats. I worked close by and after some time I learned his route was my neighborhood. Anyway all kinds of ups trucks would drive by, same style and shape / size and she would know if it was Earnies truck every time. But back to the crow, it grew up real young with my neighbor and pretty much only identified with him his dogs and his friends. It didn't imprint with other crows at all. They would actually bully him. Interesting story he told.
I watch hundreds of crows fly over my house twice a day. They've got a really big nesting site over by UW Bothell campus wetlands. They leave at daybreak and come back in the evening. Reminds me of commuters going to work.
I have 2 crows that hang around my place daily. "Flo the crow" and "Joe the crow". Joe spends most of the day sitting on a perch outside my kitchen window. At first I got a little paranoid because I thought he was watching me. The paranoia really set in when I realised he was definitely watching me. Whenever I moved out of his view, he would reposition himself on the perch so that he could see me again. It became a bit of a fun game after that. I'd hide and he would look for me.
After he stole my phone (Yes, for real, but I got it back) I decided to start feeding him, although he always keeps a safe distance of about 4 metres away at all times, which is a bit of a shame but I guess he's just playing it safe.
I named my two visiting crows, Sheryl and Russel. lol
In the farming area where I live it was noticed that occasionally a crow would get hit by a vehicle. The incidence of them being hit increased dramatically in the fall during the grain harvest. The provincial government was made aware and set up a Governmental Enquiry at a cost of several millions of dollars to determine why so many more crows died in the fall than in the rest of the year. Surveillance was set up and found that the crows would sit on the fences and nearby trees. When a truck drove by and spilled grain, all of the crows except for one would fly down to eat. The one crow that stayed in the tree or sat on the fence acted as a look out and would let out a loud "Caw" when a vehicle drove by. The crows would then fly out of the way. It was noted however that the crows that were killed were never hit by cars but they were always hit and killed by the trucks hauling the grain. From this the government concluded that all of the crows could say "CAW" but none of them could say "TRUCK."
Crows also hold court on sentinel birds that failed to notify the flock of approaching danger. The murder may escape initially...but when safe, they get in a ring on the ground, surrounding the offending bird. A great deal of chatter follows, and if found guilty the murder descends upon the offender and they kill it as a group. This behavior has been observed on several occasions... Cf. The Life History of the Crow...I forget the author's name...fascinating book. Thank you for the video!
My favourite video and I don't even need to watch it yet!
*squeals in excitement for Crow/Raven content*
I have a wild pet crow. It has a bunch of beautiful black feathers on her head. Well I think she is a girl. She comes around while I am having my evening cup of tea. At first she was a little rough taking food from my hand but the bird is now very gentle. Her name is Crow.
Loved reading the comments. God's creation is so amazing.
I think crows tell other crows to: "Stay away from that human! He is crazy! He tries to caw like us, make sounds like us! And he talks using a child like voice! They has got to be something wrong with him!"
Crows are so intelligent, I remember walking home through the park and feeding them popcorn. We have 3-4 crows who visit the grassy area outside our house. We leave them small pieces of buttered bread along with other food items which they eat almost immediately. They are so intelligent and it makes my day to observe their fascinating and beautiful behaviour. Thanks for uploading this priceless video.
Hello and thank you for your hard work, when I was a young boy I climbed into a tall tree and got a crow chick,I raised it into an adult and she and I were best friends for years. She left at about 2 years and raised her one chicks but came home every day for food during the raising months, after being gone for many mounts on Christmas day 50 years ago it was winter and cold, I awoke to a crow calling from the roof top after going out in the cold and calling to her she landed on the ground near me we talked for a time , she was very cautious, but after only about 5 minutes she was on my hand and in the house with me she stayed raised another brood and then was gone never to be seen again still today,one of the most profound thing's on my life I have many stories about her and I loved her thank you Mark
At my last job I was in the habit of taking a 3-mile walk each noon along a country road. At the top of the 1st hill was an open field where crows often gathered to feed. At first they flew off at my approach, but in time they became accustomed to me and just ignored me. One day I stopped to watch them. Immediately they came to attention - every other time they'd seen me, I'd just walked by, so this didn't fit the pattern they'd come to expect. In a puckish frame of mind, I cawed at them - and they went absolutely berserk. They fled, screaming, in all directions. I don't know what I said to them, but it didn't go down well.
Near my house crows in a tree were harassing a lone owl. I shouted at the crows and they all flew away leaving the owl alone. Bullies I thought.
When I was young I used to spend a lot of time under the trees in the back of the yard. One day, I had been quietly sitting there for a long time when the crows nesting up high in the next tree began to sing the most lovely fluting song to their babies. I was so astonished I stood up to look, and they were FURIOUS and alarmed that I had heard their private song - they screamed at me for the longest time. I have never heard crows make that sound ever again, but I read once that others have heard it on rare occasions.
I have two Ravens that have befriended me. I feed them every morning when I feed my dogs which is after our 4 mile walk in which they follow checking in periodically.
Before we moved I had another pair for many many years and they used to bring their young by as well when they were old enough. Miss those guys but we still go up there a couple times a month and believe it or not they fly in to greet me. Like the know I am coming to visit
The LORD had Ravens feed Elijah during a draught I find that comforting.
Does the bible say anything about crows?
Also was in a 4th story dentist chair having some serious work done when my dentist, her assistant and I noticed that the nearby sycamore tree had several crows or ravens standing on and near a nest. They were all looking at us with a look of what appeared to be horror. My dental assistant remarked that the crows probably thought that I was being tortured or something.
I love both! Raven and Crows!
well a story i heard about my grand farther was that to protect his crop he would shoot 1 crow out of a pair and leave the other one alive so that he would tell the rest of the pack to stay away becuse danger and it worked where other farmers of the day would just shoot every crow that they saw and they always came back
I had a pet raven years ago and it was the most amazing experience I've ever had with any animal I've owned and I've owned a lot of different animals.a friend brought it over and it had a broken wing and broken leg and had been that way for a few days.the leg healed ok but the wing didnt.I was keeping it in a cat carrier and had to wear leather gloves to handle it at first until I sat on the floor and opened the door of the cage and let it come out and check me out.From that moment on that raven took me on as it's mate and trusted me with everything.They mate for life so if you can get one when it's young it will take you on as its mate and you can do anything with it.Within 1 month it was already saying 4 different words and it followed me everywhere.My neighbors dog broke his chain and killed it when we were in the driveway about 6 months later and I was heartbroken.When you looked in this birds eyes it was like looking into a humans eyes that was stuck in a birds body.It was truley amazing.
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Hey,i saw you love ravens and crows too so i decided to share with you.From an year and half these beautiful black friends follows me almost everywhere.I don't know how to describe it but twice(day and the another day)a crow was stopping and just like seeing if i am getting home then flew away..Sometimes even there have not one,even two of them.I feel like that happened from the day I found dead raven near the road and buried him because one of my friends started to joke around and kicked him around like he was nothing more than a dead flash..I stopped him and just got the bird in my hands and buried the crow or raven(before i didn't recognized them as i'm doing now)and from that day I feel like some of the other birds who was there(ravens and crows,both) like told to each other about that and i feel like they can recognize me and kinda protect me..I shared because many think that i'm crazy or imaging things and after i saw one fact you mentioned on that video i think that i'm right on believing in that!
Corvids are so cool. Nice video
My raven learned how to unlock the cage door from the inside, by watching me.
*so interesting*
I get to watch crows dip bread into water before they eat it. I've seen crows line up and wait their turn to dip bread in an orderly manner.
I saw a crow that noticed me my entire life changed I had a feeling that off of this interaction it was almost magical maybe I'm crazy maybe not
When I was a kid going to school I had a pet Raven I walk to school and the raven come down and sit on my shoulders while I walk to school then after I get out of school here come and sit on my shoulder I'll walk home very smart bird
When I drove a dumptruck, there was a large population of ravens at the rock quarry. Multiple times a day, I would throw stale bread out the window to the ground. One got brave early, landing on my mirror mount, and holding it's beak open like a baby bird wanting to be fed. I would talk calmly, saying, " Hey Buddy, how are you today?" He would take his favorite treat (peanut butter&cheese crackers) from my fingers. How did he pick my truck out from all the hundreds of almost identical dumptrucks? They must have the ability to recognise a particular human face. Hopefully, he is out there today, lighting on someone else's mirror mount saying, " Hey buddy, how are you today?"
I have about four that hang around my house because of the peanuts I feed my squirrels. I've been having a hard time trying to figure out if they are crows or ravens, so this is very helpful. I'll have to pay attention tomorrow and see if I can tell. The one thing that has been standing out to me is the very peculiar noises they make, its so fascinating! Like coos and gurgles, all types of noises like that. I would love to get close to them like I am with the squirrels!
This happened to me too! I put the peanuts out for the Scrubjays but the crows discovered them. I had a family of three, Mom and two babies, that have now grown up in the tree near me and call me Ma whenever I come outside. I wanted to see if I walked around the neighborhood would they follow me and they do, so now I carry the peanuts with me on my walks and feed them in different places. They are very versatile and super smart and family oriented.
Here is a link to help you hear their different sounds. Hope it helps! ruclips.net/video/eZ5iippq3rA/видео.html
bedazzled64 a ravens tail has a V shape, whereas crows tails are more blunt in shape.
Ravens are much bigger!
They were eating out of my hands out at miccosukee gas station!!!
I saw a group of crows kill another one. It was horrible! Didn't know what was happening so I drove my car through the group several times to get them to disperse but to no avail. They would not leave him alone. Every time he got even two feet off the ground one would swoop and knock him down again. Along with a hummingbird homicide it ranks as one of my least favorite animal experiences.
They hold court, it's not your business. It was for a reason.
I'd try to save the bird too
@@juliedorman1858 yes but I didn't care what the reason was. I just wanted to save him
They can speak chicken if something important happens . Saw a crow talking to my rooster the day after a meteor fireball exploded. The crow was speaking chicken & the rooster was answering in chicken.
Thanks, I had no idea they could speak other bird languages, but it makes good sense when considering the almost human intelligence they have.
Yes,I usually feed crows & Ravens,,and they communicate to you,,soon they'll call their friends & family knowing you'll feed them,!;) Very smart old Crow once said,a crow as friend is crow till the end,no crow flies till that friend is acknowledged,!;))
My grandpa used tell us a story.
The story of gruncle crow.
He was in Alaska on a cruise and at one of the stops he was leaning against a wooden guard rail and a crow landed down aways from him. He kinda jokingly put his hand out to see if it would get in his hand and the crow hopped over to his hand. The crow pulled out one of his own feathers and put it in my grandpa's hand. A native American across the street at the gas station seen this and walked over to my grandpa and told him he was accepted by the crow and that they are brother's.
He told us about spirit totems and what the crow meant so I grew up believing the crow to be my spirit animal. He taught us how to call for crows when we would go fishing. But about a year ago I thought maybe I just inherited the idea and asked the great powers of the universe to show me my spirit guide. Since then groups of three crows show up at pivotal moments when I feel like I'm getting off track. They remind me I'm on the path.
Andrew Crail
This is a wonderful story.
Thankyou for sharing 😊
Nice video. I love crows and ravens. I hear ravens when I'm in northern Minnesota. They do sound weirdly human and kinda creepy at times.
I was thoroughly shocked the day I watched a crow nab and fly off with a baby opossum. Don't know what happened after that, but I'm sure it wasn't good for the opossum...
3:55 Ha!! As a teen, when I walked to and from school and also spent many hours per week walking for pleasure and exercise, I gradually noticed that at certain points during my weekly schedule, what seemed like the same medium sized crow would be perched somewhere high up watching me with apparent interest. I felt like s/he had noticed my schedule and was making a hobby of people-watching me, but that seemed kinda silly. I guess not!