:fidel-salute-big: solidarity corvrade
You've befriended this one :rat-salute:
Also sidenote as a kid I fed the crows outside my house every morning and ended up having like 5 following me down to the bus stop every day just to hang out. I wore hoodies a lot and one of them used to chill out in the hood until the bus came and always got pissed when I had to take him out. Godspeed Morty, wherever you are
A crow wearing a hoodie with another crow in the hood?
Idk something's not adding up here
I fucking love crows and ravens, by far the most interesting animal you can encounter daily. When my grandpa was growing up he rescued an injured juvenile crow and nursed it to health inside. Once it was fully grown he let it go, but it would regularly come back with little trinkets like buttons or matches to give him. Cool animals.
I just started feeding these guys since I just moved in, but the ones I fed as a kid would sometimes bring me things like buttons and coins. They gave me a Swedish coin despite being nowhere near sweden
here's my crow stories or 'crowies'. My girlfriend was driving and she saw a crow with a stick stuck in its beak the wrong way. She pulled over and the crow came up to her and let her unstick it.
The crows around my house started to become a nuisance. They'd start hooping and hollering at like 7 am so I'd go out and throw sticks at them until they left. It's true that crows remember faces because when I open the door, they book. But when she does they persist. I warn her they're smart and they don't take her seriously. She says she knows they're smart and she shouldn't be taken seriously.
One day a flock of crows I didn't know started a squakfest in the woods. I go out and watch them flush a bobcat out of their territory. Just bouncing around above it being pissy and it ran like shit. They pursued the bobcat to a certain point and then dropped off the second it passed the imaginary border.
summer break in the suburbs me and my friend would walk to the grocery store looking for free samples because they hadn't invented internet yet. There was a dead crow on the side of the road and we'd poke it with sticks grossing ourselves out. We poked it for several days because we got samples every day. This other friend who was my best friends 'other' friend came with us once and he kicked the crow into traffic and I thought it was so disrespectful.
Poking a dead crow or kicking it into traffic is gonna get you cursed lol
More like shunned by any other crows in the area, but potato potato
One of my favorite crow videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPGknpq3e0
They're such smart, fascinating creatures
Corvids are smart as fuck. I love this fact so I'm sorry if I've said this before but they did a test on Magpies. Might have been Australian Magpies. You'd think with how I love this anecdote I'd remember the details but fuck it: bird talk incoming.
They put a paper sticker on the Magpie's chest and put them in front of a mirror. The Magpie would notice the sticker and use their beak to pull it off. That means the Magpie was capable of seeing itself in the mirror and recognizing that it was itself. You ever seen the video where they put up a big mirror in the African jungle and filmed animals reacting? The Gorillas were freaked out. A male saw himself, started threat displays, and charged the "other gorilla." Chimps recognized themselves. Elephants recognized themselves. Both of those are some of the smartest non-human mammals on Earth. Apparently Corvids are on that list.
They're wicked smaht.
They're so damn smart. I saw a Raven flying over my place a while back and he was quorking. He did 4 quorks so I gave him 4 back. He did 4 more so I did 4. He then did 3. I did 3.
I like to imagine I'm making a friend.
We can be won over with gifts and snacks
Edit: might make a mega about befriending crows someday
They avoid my neighborhood, so I only see them when I am devoid of snacks
Try visibly eating them in front of them and then drop them on the ground and walk away. They might follow your cue.
They usually keep an eye on you even if you can't see them around, I saw this one and his mate looking for food in my backyard so I went out, tossed a few grapes where they were looking, and left the rest of the bowl on my step. Saw this one chowing down by the time I was back inside
Dumb question but how do you feed them? Don’t they fly away when approached? And if you leave stuff out won’t other animals just eat it?
They might fly away but will usually still keep an eye on you and see you placing the food down! Avoiding direct eye contact helps too, they don't like being looked at directly
