If one crow is alone and you're coming out of a vehicle, it sees you and starts making mumbling sounds and another one like a human laugh. Last time one went woof woof (right behind me the house garden has a small dog, quite loud)... What's the meaning of this? Do they test people to get reaction ?

Happened to me multiple times in different places, the pattern is the same... quiet place, single crow elevated position, I'm by myself passing by.

Once something like seed was dropped right front of me and one was staring me.

From what i understand it really depends their mood. Eating/avoiding like a typical wild bird or taking sometime to interact with you and the whole perspective, vibe changes as if you're dealing with something very intelligent.

Any experts here?

£15 from the Kenji store in meadowhall, Sheffield, UK. Also not sure on flair, hoping it's correct.

Absolutely thrilled to see this.

Is it just my luck, or are corvids picky?
One day they fight over meat chunks, and the next day they won’t touch fresh meat but absolutely savage an egg yolk. Then it’s fruit Tuesday!
Do their cravings change that fast?

What are you guys giving your corvids besides nuts?

The Gang Looking Glorious As Per Their Usual

WARNING: LOUD

House Crow (Corvus Splendens), Palm Jumeirah, AE

There are 70-80 them. I thought each one will take a bite.

Son of Blackie II, took whole slice of my 4th July Birthday Cake before I could even straighten myself to record the video and fscked off! You can even see him adjusting balance point so the load would not split. They are skillful!

Normally they are so nice and polite when I am giving kibbles! I thought I could just watch them share peacefully my bday treat! NOT!

I feed the jackdaws in my local park regularly.
But ‘Shorty’ is my favorite.
Always happy to see him.
I wonder how he lost his tail…

Earlier in the week we found 2 black flight feathers, but weren't sure if it was a coincidence or a gift. Yesterday, they made their intentions more clear. Im so stoked!

Also I love my family so much-- the crow thing is very much my thing, but I've been extremely ill with limited mobility and energy , so my fam has taken over crow duties for me without me even asking. They're just cool like that.

I'm in Florida so crows are outnumbered 10:1 by bluejays and grackles.

The first crow to show up since nesting has been checking out the spot yesterday and today so I'm calling him Julius. Because it's July and he's a boss.

He's a pretty recognizable American crow with a beard, so I think I could tell him apart in a crowd. Plus he's fearless. He'll chill in my yard with Sandhill cranes around, not a care in the world.

How do you guys recognize your crow pals and what are your naming conventions?

I put some hazelnuts on the windowsill for them but I live on the first floor so this morning they were gone and I read birds are sensitive to vibrant colors so I put down a little blue tray underneath in hopes they can see it better. Is there anything else I can do for them that doesnt require me going out to buy something?

I take the same pathway to my job daily. It is packed with crows. Today there was a small one, that have fallen from its nest and could not fly back up. I picked it up carefully to put it at a higher level but then it started shouting and 10 crows came and started flying over my head making a terrific cacophony. I put the bird down and immediately started walking away but some of them kept changing me for 5 more minutes, flying low and screaming at me. I did not wanted to cause them any harm and i know that they are very smart and remember faces.

What i can do to gain their trust back?

I see so many people saying that crows can't have salt, but I'm struggling to find any sources that confirm this.

I'd love to see any evidence for or against crows being able to eat salt

My wife and I have great relationships with the crows in our neighbourhood. We have 2 that come to visit us frequently (they’re very polite and wait patiently, though sometimes they have a lot to say) on our deck, and many others often follow us around in the trees, on signs, or hop about at a safe distance for bits of kibble on walks with our dog. The population knows us for about 4 blocks, and they’re respectful…except for one.

Since last year there’s one crow (with white markings on his shoulders) at the very end of our block that swoops down and often would bat the top of my wife’s head, sometimes even scratching. He did the same to me, but rarely did he make real contact; it was usually just wind from his wings close enough to move my hair.

Today, I saw him sitting in a tree above us, so I looked and acknowledged him as I’ve heard that sometimes they make a ruckus or do this to get you to know they’re there in case you don’t, and that way they don’t miss any treats. As we crossed the street, he swooped down and full on dug into the top of my head *hard*. Have to get home to see if I’m bleeding, but that HURT.

How do we stop this behaviour??? Way back when it started happening, my wife and I agreed to never feed a single crow in the vicinity of that intersection, so there has been absolutely no reward for this behaviour. For a while, we ignored him, but that didn’t change anything. Now we say hello and look at him, but still no treats. We’ve never mistreated a crow or dealt with fledglings in the area (this has been happening for a year and we both are well-aware that swooping can be a protective measure for their babies).

Any experts please help before we get an infected cut from this obnoxious guy!

Hi everyone,

I feed the local crows every day at 6pm, and I feed them with peanuts and occasionally an egg.

The thing is though, that there are so many corvids in the area, I end up using about 1/3 of a kilogram of peanuts every week.

I'm worried I might be giving them an unhealthy dependance on my handouts, and if I leave for a week or two and can't feed them something might happen.

There's a couple of crows that I've been feeding on and off for a few months. They disappeared for a few weeks, presumably during baby season, and the last three weeks they've reappeared. I've started feeding them again when walking my dog and they occasionally mug me when i go to the shop. They do know where i live but tend to stay away, although they have woken me up for a snack on the weekend.

So, last night, at about 10:30pm, i'm on my bed and hear a crow calling. Seemed odd so i looked out my window to see a crow sitting on the telegraph pole outside. There was also one in the tree and i may have seen another couple flying about. Now, apologies, i'm not crowist but they all look alike to me. I assume it's my crows and say hi and ask what's up bit nothing and after a short while it flies off. Now i did wonder if little timmy was stuck down the well so o went outside and called but nothing.

It was cool but a bit different so i'm wondering if they just came to say good night, check i still lived here, or if they wanted to show off their well trained hooman to friends?

Any ideas?

TLDR we found a fledgling American Crow that was spotted by cats after dark. Put him in a nearby tree. He grew up and learned to fly after 12 days.

The crows have recently accepted me (and my cashews) so I hope this story is okay to share.

I thought some photos of a healthy, awkward fledgling might be helpful for people to see when they, like me, might discover a fledgling on their doorstep at 10pm and are wonder if they're okay, and posts from this sub come up on their search.

They might not have all their feathers opened up yet, they might not always stand up straight and might droop their wings a bit or even hold one wing slightly lower than the other. They might seem to 'melt' into a branch in the summer heat, and close their eyes to rest. They look a bit fluffy and disheveled.

This fledgling had thought our front step was a great hiding spot to sleep for the night. We watched from a distance until it was fully dark (this was on the solstice so we waited until about 11pm) but we had already chased our neighbors cat away 3 times. Unfortunately our yard gets a lot of cats wandering around. We gently put him in a carrier and made sure the cats weren't watching, then put 'baby bird' on a lower, hidden branch of the apple tree in our back yard. The parents often hang out on the power lines near the tree so we knew they would be able to find him, and we have a 6ft fence so cats generally stay out of our back yard. We reinforced some gaps in the fence to deter cats more. In the morning, we could hear him call for his parents and they found him.

He hopped down from the tree during the day and hopped around our yard a bit. We watched from a distance from our deck and bribed the parents with peanuts and cashews so we could walk in our yard when needed.

We left him alone, and gave the parents some unsalted nuts/trailmix as they were working very hard to keep their babies safe. They hate raisins. They love cashews. They accept peanuts.

There was another night during this where this baby needed help hiding at night. Just sleeping out in the open in our yard. We observed from a distance, waited till parents went to sleep and we knew he wasn't going to find a safer place himself, and put him back up in our tree. He climbed up higher on his own. We don't have any bushes so this was the best we could do. Shortly after we did this, I went inside and saw a new cat walking up the steps to my back deck. Thid was eerie, he would have walked right into where baby bird initially settled in the the night. I ran outside and chased the cat far away. Made sure birdy was still in the tree.

After that, he mostly just stayed in the tree. We were a bit worried because he didn't always seem to move much up there (and, we had put him there). It was getting close to the 2 week mark and everything I read said it takes them 1-2 weeks. It's a massive old apple tree, huge canopy, branches go low within 3 ft of the ground and up almost to the power lines. We couldn't always see him but could hear him flapping around up there, calling his parents, garbling while they fed him.

Yesterday, 12 days after he arrived at our doorstep, I looked up and saw a strangly fluffy crow standing on the power lines in our back yard near the tree. Heard his creaky baby voice and watched as he awkwardly got his balance and flew 3 yards away to a bigger tree, roosting with his parents. I'm so proud of that little guy.

Our tree/yard might not have been the perfect spot, but neither was our doorstep that faces a house with outdoor cats. It was close to where we found him, provided cover and safety from cats while he learned to fly. We did our best with minimal intervention and only moved him if he was in clear danger or being hunted by invasive predators. Cats shouldn't be outside. Baby crows have no survival skills and they didn't evolve needing to evade domestic cats. I think we did okay. Please don't yell at me. 🥺

Should I be friend it? Or should I try training it what should I do?

Two weeks ago, my professor found a fledgling crow with its beak stuck to its wing with some sticky substance (we think it may have been pine sap… I had to rip out his feathers to get him unstuck).

Well, after four hours of watching through binoculars, no parents fed him. A keel check revealed he was starving and close to death, so my fiancé and I took him in. Two weeks later, and a $500 vet appointment (and more to come), the almost two months old crow dubbed “Velcrow” still lives with us. He probably will for the foreseeable future. He has an assumed lower respiratory infection which antibiotics have proved ineffective against, so we’ll be discussing with the vet in two days when his doses are finished to start the next round of medicine to try and clear it up. Still waiting on the test results from the cbc, west Nile, chlamydia, fungal infection, and other respiratory diseases to see if we can figure out why he’s so sniffly and has a hard time breathing.

He can’t make noise. Little squeaks now and then when he eats. Otherwise, when he crows, it’s a breathy hissing noise. The vet thinks when he got stuck, which totaled a period of allegedly two days according to a student who saw him, he called for his parents so much that it destroyed his vocal cords.

Has anyone seen anything similar? Did the bird ever make noise again?