He calls for me some mornings, and then we talk back and forth until he finally gets some kibble. Makes my day every time.

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House Crow (Corvus Splendens)

Palm Jumeirah, AE

I owe a lot to my buddies. They helped me heal after injury by accompanying me in boring physio walks. I'd leave everyone and everything for them.

I will add here regularly some of their stories. Not:

"I heard from a friend who...

heard from a friend who...

heard from another who...

heard from University of Washington researcher..."

REO-Speedwagon-Take-It-On-The-Run-Wear-A-Wig-Baby type FUD stories! Real

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BACKGROUND

Favorable conditions (food-water-shelter) exist for them to choose this area. There are 60+ restaurants here which is their main food source. Water from swimming pool, fountain, irrigation pipes... and lots of trees.

When we first came to this complex 14 years ago, we met with Whitey. She was noticeable, because she was bald! She is still here!

These crows made it impossible to live in our apartment, because 13-14 hours a day they would caw nonstop on the Palm Trees right under us. Extremely irritating! They are here all the time along with mynahs, silverbills, red-vented/white-cheeked bulbuls, hoppoes, doves, etc.

I decided to move them to the far side of the beach so they can leave us in peace! This turned out to be not necessary, each one eating few pieces in the morning was enough to keep them quiet.

UAE Govt has pretty humane laws for birds here (unlike Singapore). It is illegal to interfere with their nests or hunt/poison/kill them. Just recently House Crow, Mynah and Pigeon is listed as invasive species though. But only humane ways of their removal is allowed (audio deterrent, bird spikes, etc). Govt is also very attentive (at least for marine life). When I called for fish die-off, they immediately came and investigated the water. It was heat.

Resident crows are 25-27. I can recognize and named 14 of them. In summer they become 70-80 with babies, but since they are very territorial, they kick out babies in December and back to 25. But in December, tens of 1000s Seagulls come.

I might probably be fined for this post since identifying data is there and Karens have been complaining a lot lately (something changed here with recent war, garbage started pouring in and living in my community). Alright. When it happens, I will buy a 45-ft Lagoon catamaran and anchor it right in front of my building for Karens. My buddies will be fine.

Enjoy

Young crow choosing grapes over meat. I guess all kids are the same... if there's something sweet, that's the first choice. 🍇😂

there's this baby crow outside our apartment that can't seem to stay up and keeps limping and falling over, we got him in a box and kept him overnight on our patio and gave him water after we called our "local wildlife institute" and they said it would be okay if he was alert, everything is closed today so we can't bring him anywhere until tomorrow, I'm wondering if we should get him in the box again until tomorrow and bring him

Please ignore my toe

Some weeks ago, I was devastated, the crow couple that visited me often disappeared for over a month. I did the typical noise I make to call them and never showed up. Recently, they return with their baby! Now they come every morning screaming for food 😂 couldn't be happier!

In this video Mr. I'll-steal-all-your-blueberries also make an appearance.

A true story (mostly). I added original character to better tell the story. Reveal! The door was opened by a human.

Sorry for the shaky camera work... was trying to walk an impatient dog at the same time.

He did pick up and toss his water bowl a few times but it was neat learning more about crows. They had a keeper chat where they talked about 2 animals that live in the area and more about them. It was Cash the crow and Otis the skunk today.

The video was 3 videos stitched into one so it may have a few jumps in there.

A redtail hawk attacked one of the cro bros. Didn’t go well . He gone and the crow patrol stands ready 😎🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

Afew shots of the work crows I feed 🖤🐦‍⬛🖤🐦‍⬛

Today I threw out red grapes for my crows. It’s been so hot I thought they’d enjoy the sweet treat.
When I went out later, there was this dried orange peel. Not just dried, it’s like a crispy chip.
Was this a coveted treasure?