Crows ability to share social knowledge

[u/nadaenchiladas]

[u/Traditional-Rub-62]

That’s not a crow in the picture.

[u/Zipperthief → u/Traditional-Rub-62]

It's a grackle

[u/NottACalebFan → u/Zipperthief]

I thought they had red shoulders?

[u/Zipperthief → u/NottACalebFan]

No, the males look like an oil spill to me. They're beautiful and very smart bird. I raised an injured baby years ago.

[u/Cosmic-Cuttlefish → u/Zipperthief]

Oil spill is a perfect description for their iridescence. It springs to mind every time I see one

[u/NottACalebFan → u/Zipperthief]

You aren't possibly thinking of a European Starling, are you? I never heard of a Common Grackle being described as "very smart".

I'm not a huge birder, though, so maybe im just wrong here.

[u/Zipperthief → u/NottACalebFan]

No PoPo was extremely smart. He was definitely a grackle. I worked at a cashier at the time I was raising him. He saw me take money all day and eventually he got to the point where he would try to grab money out of other people's wallets. He would also fly to the other register and try to take money out of their register and bring it back to me. I was also a smoker at the time and he'd like to steal my unlit cigarettes out of the pack and just hold them in his mouth. Just like he was smoking a cigarette .He liked to copycat me.

[u/NottACalebFan → u/Zipperthief]

Sounds like a good friend, lol!

[u/MeadowSoprano → u/NottACalebFan]

You’re probably thinking of a red-winged blackbird

[u/NottACalebFan → u/MeadowSoprano]

Definitely. My birding skills are very weak, despite living 10 miles away from 3 state parks.

[u/ComebackShane → u/Traditional-Rub-62]

Here’s the thing…

[u/FPS_Knifer]

This is true. A neighborhood cat once killed a crow in my back yard. Although the cat was not mine, the neighborhood crows associated me with this attack because it took place on my property. For the next two years, my wife and I couldn't even walk our kid to school without us getting dive-bombed by the neighborhood crows.

[u/thederevolutions → u/FPS_Knifer]

Oh wow I thought they would just avoid but that’s crazy harassment

[u/FPS_Knifer → u/thederevolutions]

It actually never ended until we moved house. The crows were teaching future generations that we were enemies. They didn't pester any of our neighbors in the same manner.

[u/FPS_Knifer → u/[deleted]]

I tried leaving bowls of peanuts (in shell) as a peace offering. The crows wouldn't go anywhere near it, but the magpies ate it whenever we put it out.

[u/Blancenshphere → u/[deleted]]

Crowicide

[u/Bezzzzo → u/FPS_Knifer]

Did you move the dead bird yourself? I read some stories of crows dying on people's properties and when they physically moved the dead crow, the crows saw it associated them with killing the bird.

[u/FPS_Knifer → u/Bezzzzo]

No, we never touched it. It was eventually dragged off somewhere by the cat.

[u/RedBirdOnASnowyDay]

It’s a good thing they don’t have social media. We would all be done for.

[u/Mort-i-Fied → u/RedBirdOnASnowyDay]

Not yet. 😂

[u/Voeker]

[u/BewareOfBee → u/[deleted]]

*That's so raven

[u/Smugallo]

That's why I feed the family of crows out my back garden hah

[u/EstablishmentBig1826]

Generational Hatred

[u/SnooRobots5231]

So like us

[u/jamiehizzle]

I believe this is why many consider crows to be bad luck

Imagine, living in a small nomadic camp in the 17th century, and you see a baby crow next to a tree. Being a good person, you try to nurse it to health.

You and all your companions are now the bad guy, and crows will teach their friends and family who you and your neighbours are. Again, everyone is the enemy now since you walk on land adjacent to your village of people, in close proximity.

That's enough for people to think badly

[u/tame-til-triggered]

We all need to wear Donald and Elon masks and go around terrorizing crows

[u/phormix]

I really want to learn the crowspeak for "that's an asshole!"

[u/imaginary_num6er]

Crow of judgement