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re: A Story About Crows & Friendship (Long Read)
Posted on 2/14/24 at 6:14 pm to soccerfüt
Posted on 2/14/24 at 6:14 pm to soccerfüt
quote:I started with exactly 6 peanuts a day, but when I told a colleague about the Crows, he said that's not enough for a family of ~10 crows. I now put out a handful for them (~15 peanuts). Always at midday. They come back and caw at me for more peanuts sometimes, but I don't give anymore.
counting crows
"That is just a snack little fellas. Go be a bird and find you some good grub for the day."
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Posted on 2/14/24 at 6:15 pm to TravisKelces Bandaid
Posted on 2/14/24 at 6:22 pm to TravisKelces Bandaid
They like to ski
Posted on 2/14/24 at 6:26 pm to TravisKelces Bandaid
I have some crows that live on my patio roof. I’ve never pissed them off but they do love to pick on me. Not long ago they threw a bone at me while I was sitting on my patio. Hoping it was a chicken bone.
Were the raw peanuts in shells bc I think I need a peace offering after the bone throwing
Were the raw peanuts in shells bc I think I need a peace offering after the bone throwing
Posted on 2/14/24 at 6:27 pm to LSUGrrrl
quote:Yes. HEB is the only place that has them in my area. They use their beaks to crack open the shells.
Were the raw peanuts in shells
Put out some peanuts, and the crows will be there. Guaranteed.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 6:28 pm to Mushroom1968
quote:
“That’s probably for the best, because crow communities can hold a grudge for generations. A team of researchers at the University of Washington ran an experiment where they captured American Crows in nets while wearing a caveman mask, then released them back onto campus. When the researchers later walked across campus wearing the same mask, the crows scolded and dive-bombed them. More than 10 years after capturing just seven crows, more than half of the crows on campus still raised the alarm at the sight of a caveman mask.“
From link in OP, damn.
There's a crow documentary on YouTube that covers this experiment. The researchers who conducted were interviewed. Pretty cool documentary. I'll see if I can find it.
I'm pretty sure it is this one:
Crows: Smarter than you Think
This post was edited on 2/14/24 at 6:31 pm
Posted on 2/14/24 at 6:29 pm to TravisKelces Bandaid
LINK
PBS Nature entire episode on Crows. University of Washington study. This is where the masked man raided the nests and captured young birds. Very interesting video.
PBS Nature entire episode on Crows. University of Washington study. This is where the masked man raided the nests and captured young birds. Very interesting video.
This post was edited on 2/14/24 at 6:31 pm
Posted on 2/14/24 at 6:37 pm to TravisKelces Bandaid
Last year a friend of mine was moving out of state. I never asked for what he gave me a day before he left. He gave me a really big bird cage. He told me that I would need the cage. I took the cage and I thought about getting a bird for it. As a kid I raised canaries. Have ya;ll seen the price of canaries? A canary costs about two hundred bucks My neighbor gave me four adult birds. They birds are orange and you can easily see who is a male and who is a female. The birds are gold breasted wax bills and they are slightly bigger than a hummingbird. Yesterday I found a broken egg at the bottom of the cage. I guess that I need to lookup how to breed them. I'll try to breed them next month.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 6:42 pm to highup7
quote:
As a kid I raised canaries.
I'd consider owning a Glocester Canary.
Or, as they are known in some parts, the New Iberia Mascot.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 6:47 pm to TravisKelces Bandaid
Crows are on my shite list now. I work from home and last spring I watched a pair of robins build a nest on the light fixture of my patio right outside my window where my work desk is. The female laid her eggs and patiently brooded them. I was looking forward to watching them raise the babies while I worked but the day they hatched a damn crow came in and snagged a hatchling and toppled the nest. I put the other two newborns back in the nest (one of them popped out of an egg) and returned it to the perch. They were in bad shape and I was doubtful they would make it. The poor parents tried to feed them worms but they were hurt in the fall. Then another crow came in and grabbed them. The poor robins spent the rest of the day returning to the nest with food and acting confused. I eventually took the nest down because I didn't want them to try for a second clutch now that the crows were onto that spot.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 6:50 pm to LegendInMyMind
quote:Thank you for alerting me to the existence of this species.
Glocester Canary
Posted on 2/14/24 at 6:51 pm to AUFANATL
My dad used to sit in the backyard drinking beer and eating peanuts.
Somehow him and the local red-headed woodpeckers came to an agreement where he would flick a peanut up in the air and a woodpecker would swoop down and spear it with its beak and take it off to eat.
The woodpeckers would line up on the trees like planes waiting to take off and grab their peanuts.
Somehow him and the local red-headed woodpeckers came to an agreement where he would flick a peanut up in the air and a woodpecker would swoop down and spear it with its beak and take it off to eat.
The woodpeckers would line up on the trees like planes waiting to take off and grab their peanuts.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 6:52 pm to AUFANATL
quote:Man, I can totally relate, and that's how this whole saga started for me as well.
Crows are on my shite list now. I work from home and last spring I watched a pair of robins build a nest on the light fixture of my patio right outside my window where my work desk is. The female laid her eggs and patiently brooded them. I was looking forward to watching them raise the babies while I worked but the day they hatched a damn crow came in and snagged a hatchling and toppled the nest. I put the other two newborns back in the nest (one of them popped out of an egg) and returned it to the perch. They were in bad shape and I was doubtful they would make it. The poor parents tried to feed them worms but they were hurt in the fall. Then another crow came in and grabbed them. The poor robins spent the rest of the day returning to the nest with food and acting confused. I eventually took the nest down because I didn't want them to try for a second clutch now that the crows were onto that spot.
I grew to appreciate the wisdom in the saying, "Nature is not a Disney movie."
Posted on 2/14/24 at 6:54 pm to AUFANATL
Nature beez dat way sometimes.
I listen to a podcast called Nature Guys. One of the hosts was a lifelong naturalist who worked at a nature preserve/center in Ohio for years. He told the story of a robin building a nest in a small tree near the entrance to the main building. The kids and others were doing as you did, monitoring it excitedly waiting for the eggs to hatch. Not long before hatching a snake showed up when one of the other workers was out taking care of some stuff. She watched as the snake climbed the tree and ate every egg in the nest. By rule, they don't interfere with pretty much anything, they let Nature take its course. Everything has got to eat, and there is a balance for everything.
I listen to a podcast called Nature Guys. One of the hosts was a lifelong naturalist who worked at a nature preserve/center in Ohio for years. He told the story of a robin building a nest in a small tree near the entrance to the main building. The kids and others were doing as you did, monitoring it excitedly waiting for the eggs to hatch. Not long before hatching a snake showed up when one of the other workers was out taking care of some stuff. She watched as the snake climbed the tree and ate every egg in the nest. By rule, they don't interfere with pretty much anything, they let Nature take its course. Everything has got to eat, and there is a balance for everything.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 7:36 pm to LegendInMyMind
quote:
I'm pretty sure it is this one
Welp, looks like I'll be watching it, thank you.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 7:38 pm to LegendInMyMind
quote:
Yeah, that's the one!
I saw that episode years ago and it it still
amazed me when I rewatch it.
They found not only do crows use tools to obtain food, but they actually make tools to get food. I’ve met some grown people that couldn’t figure out all the stuff those birds were.
Really good video.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 7:43 pm to Mushroom1968
They make a hook out of twigs to grab things. 3 animals outside of humans make tools, chimpanzees, elephants, and crows.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 7:43 pm to sparkinator
quote:Thanks. I will be watching.
Really good video.
I also heard about crows leaving presents for people that feed them in the form of coins, bottle caps, and other shiny objects. Call me a nerd but that would be one of the coolest things ever if it happens to me.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 7:47 pm to TravisKelces Bandaid
quote:
ed feeding the Crows. I went to HEB and bought raw peanuts,
Do they prefer shelled or unshelled?
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