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What Purpose do Crows Serve?

Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:51 am
Posted by tgrbaitn08
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:51 am
I sitting in the backyard enjoying a cup of coffee listening to the birds wake up and chirp, watching the sun come up and there’s a crows nest in my neighbors tree. There must be 5 or 6 crows that live it and they come and go all day and they are loud as frick. All they do is crow and fly around like they’re in attack mode.

I can’t shoot them bc I’m in the city and don’t want the Nextdoor Nazis to start a war with me so what can I do to make them leave?

What are they good for to begin with? I see them fricking with the neighborhood cats from time to time. Are they enemies?
Posted by HubbaBubba
North of DFW, TX
Member since Oct 2010
52650 posts
Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:53 am to
If they frick with stray cats, why worry? Enjoy the fun.
Posted by oatmeal
NOLA
Member since Apr 2014
605 posts
Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:53 am to
They protect the north from the white walkers
Posted by Turftoe
Denver
Member since Mar 2016
4418 posts
Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:54 am to
I also had a couple puffs with my morning coffee.
Posted by MikeD
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2004
8620 posts
Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:54 am to
Make friends with them and they will protect you
Posted by tgrbaitn08
Member since Dec 2007
148031 posts
Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:54 am to
I don’t like the cats either but they keep the rats in check
Posted by Ronaldo Burgundiaz
NWA
Member since Jan 2012
6795 posts
Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:54 am to
quote:

What Purpose do Crows Serve?
They eat grubs, which eventually turn into June bugs then bug the shite out of you all summer after dusk. Leave the crows alone.
This post was edited on 4/5/20 at 8:56 am
Posted by Winston Cup
Dallas Cowboys Fan
Member since May 2016
66986 posts
Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:56 am to
Let us know the closest distance between two points
Posted by cypressbrake3
Member since Oct 2014
3681 posts
Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:56 am to
If they don't provide an immediate benefit to you, then they are no good and need to be eliminated, right?

Posted by tgrbaitn08
Member since Dec 2007
148031 posts
Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:57 am to
Sometimes when they all start circling my house crowing and all that none sense I feel like I’m in that movie where the crows attack.

What’s the name of that movie?
Posted by El Tigre Grande
Bayou Self
Member since Jan 2006
2666 posts
Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:58 am to
Great practice for hunting bald eagles
Posted by tgrbaitn08
Member since Dec 2007
148031 posts
Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:59 am to
quote:

The Birds is a 1963 American horror-thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. Loosely based on the 1952 story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier, it focuses on a series of sudden and unexplained violent bird attacks on the people of Bodega Bay, California, over the course of a few days.
Posted by DownSouthCrawfish
Lift every voice and sing
Member since Oct 2011
41521 posts
Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:59 am to
Eating bugs and roadkill
Posted by Homesick Tiger
Greenbrier, AR
Member since Nov 2006
56166 posts
Posted on 4/5/20 at 9:01 am to
They're play toys for blackbirds. They love chasing crows. Don't ask me why.
Posted by East Coast Band
Member since Nov 2010
67015 posts
Posted on 4/5/20 at 9:03 am to
They clean up the roadkill
Posted by Eat Your Crow
caught beneath the landslide
Member since May 2017
9190 posts
Posted on 4/5/20 at 9:04 am to
To count them
Posted by tgrbaitn08
Member since Dec 2007
148031 posts
Posted on 4/5/20 at 9:05 am to
there’s not much road kill around here
Posted by Tigris
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Member since Jul 2005
13231 posts
Posted on 4/5/20 at 9:12 am to
They eat a lot of insects.

quote:

Crows feed on the nectar of red or orange tubular flowers such as trumpet creeper, cardinal flower, honeysuckle, jewelweed, bee-balm, red buckeye and red morning glory, and, sometimes, tree sap. Crows also catch insects in midair or pull them out of spider webs. Main insect prey includes mosquitoes, gnats, fruit flies, and small bees; also eats spiders. Crows sometimes take insects attracted to sap wells or picks small caterpillars and aphids from leaves.
Posted by tgrbaitn08
Member since Dec 2007
148031 posts
Posted on 4/5/20 at 9:13 am to
Thank you Tigris that was the answer I was looking for
Posted by SSpaniel
Germantown
Member since Feb 2013
29658 posts
Posted on 4/5/20 at 9:15 am to
They are among the smartest animals. Not just birds, but animals in general. They can figure out trap doors and puzzles all on their own.
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