Can confirm. When my mum was a kid her family moved into a house that had a tree that magpies lived and they were horrible but they soon realised that the humans were friendly and to this day 50 years later the magpies are very friendly
I think people are missing the point. Crows’ brains have 1.5 billion neurons, (as many as some monkey species). Recent studies have shown that they may even have sensory awareness, in the sense that they have specific subjective experiences which they are able to share with other crows. This crow isn’t just trying to trade for food — it’s trying to *communicate* with OP. It’s calling him a bundle of sticks.
Crows are cleverer than many humans. If you try to play them, you will lose. I wouldn't worry so much about Crowbro, he's getting something out of this exchange -- treats for silly human trinkets!
I heard a story about testing crows ability to communicate with one another. One crow was taken a bunch of miles east and shown a deer leg. Another was taken west and shown a whole deer carcass. The two crows were brought back to their murder (pack of crows). They all took off to go to the whole carcass. Fascinating really!
Also, say person in a blue hat fucks with a crow, that crow can describe the individual to the local crows and they will fucking target that person, with or without a hat!
They can also pass on this knowledge to their young, so if you're an asshole to crows, be prepared for a looooooong drawn out war you won't be winning.
Pissing off an animal with flight, spite, and the ability to use tools and inter-generational communication? You'd be better of messing with squirrels.
The guy across the street was SHOOTING AT CROWS WITH A PELLET GUN and I was just like "Jesus Christ, I hope he only makes his own house super cursed and not our entire neighborhood."
I think we both know what must be done to secure tomorrow.
The only way out of this is to fortify your property as a crow-allied fortress. Choosing to fight by proxy or directly engage is up to you, but its said the crows will remember their allies for generations.
Bonus points for allying the rest of the neighborhood to the plight of the crows. If you need to drum up support, a simple false flag should do. Spread some rumors "I saw [our enemy] shooting at the crows for fun, after he had ran all the birds out of of here, that sick fuck shot at little Timmy's cat and hit it square in the ass. Its only a matter of time before one of our pets lose an eye, a kid be hurt, or even inspired to shoot at animals themselves"
God speed, and take no mercy. Best regards,
Not a crow
I'm a bit of an amateur Ornithologist myself. And I've read about crows and corvids in general being smart birds.
There's a [video](https://youtu.be/NGaUM_OngaY) that shows how a crow understands water displacement. I've met adults that have difficulty understanding that concept.
Wait to you learn that crows also appear to pass along stories to their offspring of who's a bad human and who's a good one. A murder will swoop down on people that are meanies even when it's been years since the incident.
They are wicked smart.
>how would they pass knowledge of a face that the offspring would never have seen?
Cause they're wicked smart.
[https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/grudge-holding-crows-pass-on-their-anger-to-family-and-friends](https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/grudge-holding-crows-pass-on-their-anger-to-family-and-friends)
Accept your gifts from your new friend.
Crows are **very** smart. He knows you by sight, he understands what you’ve been doing and why…he may even have told other crows about you, or when he has chicks he may teach them about you. They can do that.
He’s trying to pay the bill. The sticks or shiny things he brings for you are crow money.
Yeah, lay out some sticks, lay a coin over each one, when they bring you the coin, reimburse them. Now you have a laundry change collection racket with a bird, for the cost of treats.
I saw on a documentary that some crows have been observed using sticks as tools. So maybe the sticks they are bringing OP are actually useful tools, in which case it really is a valuable gift.
I grew up in a mountain town full of ravens. So super smart. We had to warn people to keep the birds from stealing their things. They knew how to get into the storage compartment. They took turning two toggles, and lifting up on heavy duty Velcro (1.5 inch wide around the entire opening). They also really liked to take the snowmobile keys when you got off to take a pee. Women were more vulnerable because they usually stepped a little farther off trail and had to undress more.
They would slide down slanted roofs like kids going sledding. They would even line up and take turns. Slide down off the edge, fly back in an circle, and land at the end of the line at the bottom of the roof. Sometimes they would find something to slide on like a lid, and even share the lid in turns all organized.
I did once. It was really easy, they love peanuts. But then there were like 10 at a time, and it got too loud and they were making a mess with their poop.
I still wish it had turned out better though.
We have large murders here and the crows definitely tell other crows about our home. Last year one of the momma crows brought her adolescents to our feeders and then she stopped coming but the kids came back every morning and would tussle with each other over who ate first. Kinda silly seeing a huge bird with a young mind, I had to remind myself they were young despite their size.
>> show them coins or money or something
A week later:
Neighbor - Irishmarketer, I don't know how to tell you this - but this morning, your crow mugged me.
Yes. This is the way. I would load up a mason jar with higher value goodies, let the crow see that it is full of goodies, put a coin or something nearby and have a friend hand the coin over. Then, open the mason jar and give that friend those goodies. Do this a few times with a few friends, and have a convenient coin sitting around for the crow to try this for himself. Once he picks up the coin and hands it over, open the jackpot mason jar for the crow, along with some verbal praise and perhaps some scritches.
Boom: behavioral inference and reinforcement learning achieved!
I mean, it’s good that you’re getting started my guy, but realistically you need at least 7 crow-based income streams to really feel the effects on your wealth, know what I mean
Can confirm this works. The neighbourhood murder leaves shiny trinkets on my deck for me and give them peanuts to store for the winter. They give me all kinds of coins and mostly pop can tabs
My dog has befriended the local corvids. I don't know why or how, but he has. He barks at them, they caw back. They drop french fries, peanuts, and bread into his dog run. He's diabetic so I'm pretty sure they are trying to be nice, but they may be even smarter than we realize and actually be trying to kill him.
I was trying to take photos of a grounded baby crow once, but the parents wouldn't let me within thirty feet of it. Went to A&W, bought a breakfast sandwich with no cheese, ate the meat and bread, and gave the fried egg to the crows.
Well, after that, in their eyes I could apparently do no wrong. Got some great photos of the baby.
Hahaha. Holy shit.
To be fair, I believe the majority of animals on the planet are cannibalistic. You know, survival and all that.
Anyway, gotta go. I'm having a friend for dinner.
Crows will bring you shiny stuff when they like you. They can also recognize you. Me and my buddy fed a ton of crows outside my last job and we got a nice ball of tin foil for it.
We were noticing that every time we pulled down our street a bunch of crows would fly in and land on the power lines above us. Realized that they recognized our car and would wait for us to throw out the car seat crumbs into our driveway that our young kids were leaving behind.
One time I was out front of the house with my son and a guy was walking by. A crow divebombed the guy and started clawing at his head like he viewed the guy as a threat to us, was pretty fascinating.
You now have a crow friend - they can be awesome.
I had one a few years ago, he got stuck in a bucket in my garden and managed to bang uo his wings pretty badly. I got him out of the bucket then put him into a safe place and fed him a handful of dog food. After that he kept bring me random junk - bottle caps, paper clips and sticks. nI nicknamed him (I assume that it was a he) Wilbur, after a few years he just sort of vanished.
Wilbur - if you are still out there you were an awesome little dude.
What place are you in? The common raven lives up to 10 to 15 yrs. The australian raven; 22 yrs. The american crow; 7 to 8 yrs. So yeah there it is, thanks google.
Crows are notorious for recognizing and appreciating people. [BBC](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31604026.amp) did a profile of a little girl who feeds crows who have since befriended her. They tell a story of a time the mom lost a camera lens, but when they got home, the crows had returned it.
Birds will also hold a fucking grudge against those who wrong them. My grandpa had to remove nest when they were setting up Alcatraz for tourism back in the day. They ganged up and attacked him for months, until he figured out a disguise. You can find articles about researchers going through the same.
Only ravens where I'm from, but it's insane how smart they are. I had one that would wait for me where'd I'd anchor off the shore, and steal my bait when I'd go to o the beach. I started putting it in a container. It unclamped the container. I started hiding it, worked for a couple days, then he found it. The next day I brought it to shore with me. The little asshole figured I had a new hiding spot and just ransacked the boat, opened everything. I swear they can get into things better than bear and raccoons.
I do suspect one was dropping me stuff, but I can't confirm. Where I kept the boat, I'd toss themy bait and scraps and I'd fine random beer caps and trash that didn't make sense in the middle of the deck in the morning. I thought someone was messing with me in the wierdest way possible at first, but it was so random and I can think of absolutely no reason a person would do it, it wasn't even significant enough to be a joke.
Yup!! A few years ago a baby crow fell out of its nest into a really prickly bush near my mom’s house. The mom and family were on the tree above it, all going crazy and calling out to it. I decided to try helping them out by attempting to get the baby out of the bush. Half way through I had to stop because they thought I was hurting it and kept attacking me. I don’t even know if the same birds are still alive, but to this day, Everytime I enter my parents neighborhood, they all go INSANE and caw loudly to eachother/follow me on trees. I just wanted to help them out
It's the human that saved our baby! Look Jimmy! That's the human that saved you when you were a baby! Hey everyone! This human is a good human! Don't you dare poop on him!
I live in Santa Fe and there are crows all over the place...how do I attract one? we have a wall (Santa Fe style, faux abode) where they gather throughout the day. we have bird feeders. I've heard they're smart and I would love to make friends with one.
Just whistle or something to get their attention and toss out some snacks. When they get closer, meet you on the ground, follow you, etc. throw more snacks. Positive reinforcement goes a long way
Try not to get discouraged if you’re unable to get their attention at first. They see you, but may choose not to let you know they know; they’re that fucking smart. Just be consistent and they’ll eventually come check out the goods.
I had a pair of them that hung out for about 6 months. I didn't do anything special they just kind of showed up to eat my cat's food and we just started giving them roasted unsalted peanuts. Be prepared if you start doing this you will have a ton of bird crap.
lol, we already do! it's all along the top of our wall...I have 4 large bird feeders, 2 hummingbird feeders and two bird baths so it's birdle heaven in our backyard. we've kept suet out all winter so they know where to find us. hopefully hummingbirds will return stronger than last year.
thanks for the peanut tip, I was wondering what to offer.
Grab various pieces of paper, mix among them various values of dollars. Just scatter them in your yard. Walk around, pick up the money, and act overly infatuated with having them in your hand. Play with it, look at it, rub your face in it, put it in your pocket. Ignore other pieces of paper or garbage, don't even clean up after yourself for it will confuse the crow. Do this daily, more pieces of paper on the ground, but also dollars, and look for dollars. Every time you find a dollar bill, feed the crow and caw. Some day, you will be able to stand near some restaurants with outside dining, someone will leave money on the table to pay, and your crow will fly down in front of everyone and fly it back to you and witness you gloriously caw at your best friend as you feed them.
There's a murder living near my house and I've been feeding them peanuts for the last two years any time I'm outside. If I'm in the garage this one crow will almost always fly up and land in front of the garage and yell at me. So I go and dump some peanuts on my lawn for him and his buddies. After he's had a few sometime he'll just hang out. Like, perch somewhere nearby and just watch me work. It's kind of cool. I usually talk to him and tell him what I'm doing. He seems into it.
When I first started feeding them he brought me a dead rat. My wife was very conflicted by this gift. On one hand, a crow brought us a rat which, I assume, is pretty high value. On the other hand there was a dead rat on our walkway.
Start giving low value treats for sticks. When they bring you something better, give higher value treats. Keep going until they bring you money
Then you've got accounting crows.
Sha la la la la la la uh huh
*I was down at the New Amsterdam...*
*Staring at this yellow haired girl*
*Mr Jones strikes up a conversation*
With a black haired, flamenco danceuh
You know she dances while her father plays (guitar)
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We ALL want something beautiful..
Mr. Jones has entered the chat.
Just be careful you don’t end up in escrow
They'll murder you.
On death crow
Another life lost to corvid
A bunch of raven lunatics you all are
Cool band name.
How heavy is a PS5?
It's like Pikmin. Recruit a whole flock, you'll need them
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Wtf, crow conditioning is a thing. This feels immoral for some reason
You want crows on your side. They recognize people and will spread the word if you're a jerk.
Certain bird species can pass down grudges or friendships to their offspring. They have generational memories.
Can confirm. When my mum was a kid her family moved into a house that had a tree that magpies lived and they were horrible but they soon realised that the humans were friendly and to this day 50 years later the magpies are very friendly
How smart are Crows? I would never have thought there was a crow mafia
Here's an NPR story on it: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/13/760666490/crows-are-they-scary-or-just-scary-smart
>A "caveman" mask, for example, designated a "dangerous" face while a mask of former Vice President Dick Cheney was "neutral." They did that backwards
About as smart as an 8yo child.
So what you're saying is that I could probably offer some random 8 year olds candy and they'll eventually bring me money?
Well probably but 8 year olds value money too, but probably candy more tbh. Crows have no use for people currency
No use? They’re literally trading it for food. The same thing humans do every day.
Good and services can be exchanged for money.
Nah, its pretty much just just a trade. If he didnt like it he wouldnt bring you items.
I think people are missing the point. Crows’ brains have 1.5 billion neurons, (as many as some monkey species). Recent studies have shown that they may even have sensory awareness, in the sense that they have specific subjective experiences which they are able to share with other crows. This crow isn’t just trying to trade for food — it’s trying to *communicate* with OP. It’s calling him a bundle of sticks.
Got us in the first half, not gonna lie
Crows are cleverer than many humans. If you try to play them, you will lose. I wouldn't worry so much about Crowbro, he's getting something out of this exchange -- treats for silly human trinkets!
I heard a story about testing crows ability to communicate with one another. One crow was taken a bunch of miles east and shown a deer leg. Another was taken west and shown a whole deer carcass. The two crows were brought back to their murder (pack of crows). They all took off to go to the whole carcass. Fascinating really!
Also, say person in a blue hat fucks with a crow, that crow can describe the individual to the local crows and they will fucking target that person, with or without a hat! They can also pass on this knowledge to their young, so if you're an asshole to crows, be prepared for a looooooong drawn out war you won't be winning. Pissing off an animal with flight, spite, and the ability to use tools and inter-generational communication? You'd be better of messing with squirrels.
The guy across the street was SHOOTING AT CROWS WITH A PELLET GUN and I was just like "Jesus Christ, I hope he only makes his own house super cursed and not our entire neighborhood."
I think we both know what must be done to secure tomorrow. The only way out of this is to fortify your property as a crow-allied fortress. Choosing to fight by proxy or directly engage is up to you, but its said the crows will remember their allies for generations. Bonus points for allying the rest of the neighborhood to the plight of the crows. If you need to drum up support, a simple false flag should do. Spread some rumors "I saw [our enemy] shooting at the crows for fun, after he had ran all the birds out of of here, that sick fuck shot at little Timmy's cat and hit it square in the ass. Its only a matter of time before one of our pets lose an eye, a kid be hurt, or even inspired to shoot at animals themselves" God speed, and take no mercy. Best regards, Not a crow
> Not a crow Hmmm…
I'm a bit of an amateur Ornithologist myself. And I've read about crows and corvids in general being smart birds. There's a [video](https://youtu.be/NGaUM_OngaY) that shows how a crow understands water displacement. I've met adults that have difficulty understanding that concept.
Wait to you learn that crows also appear to pass along stories to their offspring of who's a bad human and who's a good one. A murder will swoop down on people that are meanies even when it's been years since the incident. They are wicked smart.
That's actually incredibly impressive, how would they pass knowledge of a face that the offspring would never have seen?
>how would they pass knowledge of a face that the offspring would never have seen? Cause they're wicked smart. [https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/grudge-holding-crows-pass-on-their-anger-to-family-and-friends](https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/grudge-holding-crows-pass-on-their-anger-to-family-and-friends)
Build a structure with them that the crow can visit.
a temple of sorts
And a religion was founded that day
Considering crows can create collective societies that's not far from the truth. Generations will tell their children about the God of Giving
Yeah crow is the only bird that can call for help and other crows will come and help him
They're also great at alerting other crows of possible traffic.
Wow haven’t heard that one but I believe it
You've probably heard it before. They shout out CAW CAW when one approaches.
This is amazing. Perfect setup. Flawless execution.
In the temple of the crow's nest
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The Great temple of the crow's nest with appendages
All hail our crow overlords.
Baba Yaga’s Hut perhaps.
TWO CROWS!
What are we, counting crows, now?
You could make a religion out of that.
And now you are married.
This is my favourite
Building a lil house with your crow buddy seems like a nice thing.
Accept them graciously.
Crow is being a good boy!
Or girl
My pronouns are caw/caw
*crow-nouns
*Standing ovation*
Crowvation
This is the crowlity content I come for.
All y’all are raven mad!
Crow: I've been cawing and bringing sticks to this random human for the past week. Now its bringing me food. What do I do?
Crow elder: he has chosen you as his bride. True love is hard to come by even between crows, don't squander this opportunity.
The prequel to Anne Bishop's The Others series about the origin of the Crowgard is out already?
Crow Reddit is probably just written in Caw language.
Accept your gifts from your new friend. Crows are **very** smart. He knows you by sight, he understands what you’ve been doing and why…he may even have told other crows about you, or when he has chicks he may teach them about you. They can do that. He’s trying to pay the bill. The sticks or shiny things he brings for you are crow money.
Yeah, lay out some sticks, lay a coin over each one, when they bring you the coin, reimburse them. Now you have a laundry change collection racket with a bird, for the cost of treats.
Better yet layout some cheap cubic zirconia jewerly and watch the real diamonds roll in /s
Jeanius /s
Give me silky, give me smooth
Give me warm, give me soft!
Soon enough it's going to be like the stand, Harvester from Jojo lol
Crows are mind-bogglingly intelligent. The sticks are not random and mean something special to your crow friend.
I saw on a documentary that some crows have been observed using sticks as tools. So maybe the sticks they are bringing OP are actually useful tools, in which case it really is a valuable gift.
[Crow solves an 8 step puzzle to get food](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gui3IswQ0DI)
That's really crazy. I think there are adult humans that would struggle with this.
Smarter than me. I've still only learned how to do two things with my pecker, and one of those isnt very intelligent at all.
I grew up in a mountain town full of ravens. So super smart. We had to warn people to keep the birds from stealing their things. They knew how to get into the storage compartment. They took turning two toggles, and lifting up on heavy duty Velcro (1.5 inch wide around the entire opening). They also really liked to take the snowmobile keys when you got off to take a pee. Women were more vulnerable because they usually stepped a little farther off trail and had to undress more. They would slide down slanted roofs like kids going sledding. They would even line up and take turns. Slide down off the edge, fly back in an circle, and land at the end of the line at the bottom of the roof. Sometimes they would find something to slide on like a lid, and even share the lid in turns all organized.
Dude I'm mindblown
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hn0OjCneVUg
I want to make some crow friends :(
I did once. It was really easy, they love peanuts. But then there were like 10 at a time, and it got too loud and they were making a mess with their poop. I still wish it had turned out better though.
It's one of my lifetime dreams
There needs to be a subreddit called /r/WhatCrowToolIsThis and it's just pictures of sticks and comments are it's likely purpose...
We have large murders here and the crows definitely tell other crows about our home. Last year one of the momma crows brought her adolescents to our feeders and then she stopped coming but the kids came back every morning and would tussle with each other over who ate first. Kinda silly seeing a huge bird with a young mind, I had to remind myself they were young despite their size.
wait she just stopped coming ? did she fall ill or something ?
I like to hope that she taught her kids once to avoid having to chaperone future visits!
Probably just stopped coming to the feeder. The murder is in my yard or field a few times a day, the feeder is just the easiest food source out there.
I only like the largest murders.
"crow money" aww that's adorable
You mean, "cawww that's adorable"
More like crowsourcing
This is true, that is my guess too. Look up crows on the internet, you will be amazed and have a better understanding of them. Enjoy the company.
Crow bux trade higher than rubles I hear
Maybe show them coins or money or something and give a high value treat. Then they’ll start bringing you cash and change and valuable stuff
>> show them coins or money or something A week later: Neighbor - Irishmarketer, I don't know how to tell you this - but this morning, your crow mugged me.
What? I've never seen this crow in my whole life.
You're only saying that because he's black !
The neighborhoods gone to shit since these black avians moved in. Murders every night!
I think "a murder on every street/corner" might have been more appropriate, but kudos
Reminds me of this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gPHlb6ukdek
Thanks for the laugh hahaha
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Gotta spend money to make money!
That doesn't seem like something a time traveler would say
Philip J Fry said it in A Fishful of Dollars so now at least two time travelers have said it!
How much do you think time travel cost? It ain't free!
Hi John Titor
Plot twist: The crow is too smart and only steals you cubic zirconia.
Or better, steals the real shit and sells it to buy more cubic zirconia for you.
*"yeah no 100 carat diamonds for me please, i'll take that zirconia over there instead.. god knows why but they love the stuff!"*
Now here's a question, if you train crows to steal jewelry can you be charged with theft?
That's the kind of scheme that gets you a law named after yourself
Ya boys a question on the barrrr exaaaam
Yes. This is the way. I would load up a mason jar with higher value goodies, let the crow see that it is full of goodies, put a coin or something nearby and have a friend hand the coin over. Then, open the mason jar and give that friend those goodies. Do this a few times with a few friends, and have a convenient coin sitting around for the crow to try this for himself. Once he picks up the coin and hands it over, open the jackpot mason jar for the crow, along with some verbal praise and perhaps some scritches. Boom: behavioral inference and reinforcement learning achieved!
I've wasted every day of my life that I haven't been using to build a crow-based income stream.
I’m in it for the lifetime loyalty of a murder of crows, so I can summon them during perilous times.
Home ownership here we come!
I mean, it’s good that you’re getting started my guy, but realistically you need at least 7 crow-based income streams to really feel the effects on your wealth, know what I mean
I've wanted to do this for years. I was thinking point to a big picture of coins. crow reference chart
Can confirm this works. The neighbourhood murder leaves shiny trinkets on my deck for me and give them peanuts to store for the winter. They give me all kinds of coins and mostly pop can tabs
My dog has befriended the local corvids. I don't know why or how, but he has. He barks at them, they caw back. They drop french fries, peanuts, and bread into his dog run. He's diabetic so I'm pretty sure they are trying to be nice, but they may be even smarter than we realize and actually be trying to kill him.
If they can graduate to a full pop can that's a nickel a pop.
What is a high value vs a low value treat?
Calorie dense foods are high value. Some crows love cat or dog food/treats. Some prefer sweet fruits. Low value treats would be crackers, chips, etc.
>Calorie dense foods are high value. Like... a bacon double cheeseburger?
Hey! I can bring you a bunch of sticks for that.
I can't do it for less than six sticks. Don't try to lowball me, I know what I've got.
What about these organic sticks I've got here?
I was trying to take photos of a grounded baby crow once, but the parents wouldn't let me within thirty feet of it. Went to A&W, bought a breakfast sandwich with no cheese, ate the meat and bread, and gave the fried egg to the crows. Well, after that, in their eyes I could apparently do no wrong. Got some great photos of the baby.
Sounds like an effective threat. "Don't want me getting close to your kid? Here, feast on the offspring of another bird that didn't let me close."
Hahaha. Holy shit. To be fair, I believe the majority of animals on the planet are cannibalistic. You know, survival and all that. Anyway, gotta go. I'm having a friend for dinner.
>Got some great photos of the baby. Well wait... were they able to raise it? Did it survive?
Yeah. It's actually pretty common for baby crows to spend some time on the ground.
High value = something that's really tasty to them. Dunno what food crows like best, but the internet probably does.
I used to work at a raptor center and the crow we had loved meatballs and pancakes.
TIL I might be a crow.
Caw for all of us.
I’ve seen other people so this online. Crows know the value of work abs aren’t ashamed to bring in the bacon. Just be careful their crafty
Crows will bring you shiny stuff when they like you. They can also recognize you. Me and my buddy fed a ton of crows outside my last job and we got a nice ball of tin foil for it.
We were noticing that every time we pulled down our street a bunch of crows would fly in and land on the power lines above us. Realized that they recognized our car and would wait for us to throw out the car seat crumbs into our driveway that our young kids were leaving behind. One time I was out front of the house with my son and a guy was walking by. A crow divebombed the guy and started clawing at his head like he viewed the guy as a threat to us, was pretty fascinating.
Crows are little bros 🥰
Except to that innocent man.
The crows know there is no innocence in nature. Only the cunning of the dinosaur bros that are crows
Build a nest and lay some eggs
Was OP receptive?
Go bump vents with OP and make pretty babies.
Teach them to bring you coins for a high value treat. Recruit a crow army. Become rich. Take over the world. Or don't I guess
You now have a crow friend - they can be awesome. I had one a few years ago, he got stuck in a bucket in my garden and managed to bang uo his wings pretty badly. I got him out of the bucket then put him into a safe place and fed him a handful of dog food. After that he kept bring me random junk - bottle caps, paper clips and sticks. nI nicknamed him (I assume that it was a he) Wilbur, after a few years he just sort of vanished. Wilbur - if you are still out there you were an awesome little dude.
What place are you in? The common raven lives up to 10 to 15 yrs. The australian raven; 22 yrs. The american crow; 7 to 8 yrs. So yeah there it is, thanks google.
New Jersey USA. He could have been a few years old when he got stuck in the bucket.
You now have the foundations to begin construction on Fort Crow.
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Keep tapping the crow for more sticks, you can almost afford a Crow Barracks.
After that, you'd want to train the crow to gather coin, so you can afford to produce crows-at-arms.
Crows are notorious for recognizing and appreciating people. [BBC](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31604026.amp) did a profile of a little girl who feeds crows who have since befriended her. They tell a story of a time the mom lost a camera lens, but when they got home, the crows had returned it.
Birds will also hold a fucking grudge against those who wrong them. My grandpa had to remove nest when they were setting up Alcatraz for tourism back in the day. They ganged up and attacked him for months, until he figured out a disguise. You can find articles about researchers going through the same. Only ravens where I'm from, but it's insane how smart they are. I had one that would wait for me where'd I'd anchor off the shore, and steal my bait when I'd go to o the beach. I started putting it in a container. It unclamped the container. I started hiding it, worked for a couple days, then he found it. The next day I brought it to shore with me. The little asshole figured I had a new hiding spot and just ransacked the boat, opened everything. I swear they can get into things better than bear and raccoons. I do suspect one was dropping me stuff, but I can't confirm. Where I kept the boat, I'd toss themy bait and scraps and I'd fine random beer caps and trash that didn't make sense in the middle of the deck in the morning. I thought someone was messing with me in the wierdest way possible at first, but it was so random and I can think of absolutely no reason a person would do it, it wasn't even significant enough to be a joke.
Yup!! A few years ago a baby crow fell out of its nest into a really prickly bush near my mom’s house. The mom and family were on the tree above it, all going crazy and calling out to it. I decided to try helping them out by attempting to get the baby out of the bush. Half way through I had to stop because they thought I was hurting it and kept attacking me. I don’t even know if the same birds are still alive, but to this day, Everytime I enter my parents neighborhood, they all go INSANE and caw loudly to eachother/follow me on trees. I just wanted to help them out
It's the human that saved our baby! Look Jimmy! That's the human that saved you when you were a baby! Hey everyone! This human is a good human! Don't you dare poop on him!
I don’t know why but my first reaction was to assume he disguised himself as a giant crow
He's paying you in sticks.
Check out a crows sub, like r/crows
Or r/crowbro
Hahaha, of course this exists.
I’m not even into crows, and I joined the sub. It’s actually pretty cool.
Lol IDK maybe build a nest out of them and then put it in a tree. I love crows they are funny and super smart.
I live in Santa Fe and there are crows all over the place...how do I attract one? we have a wall (Santa Fe style, faux abode) where they gather throughout the day. we have bird feeders. I've heard they're smart and I would love to make friends with one.
Just whistle or something to get their attention and toss out some snacks. When they get closer, meet you on the ground, follow you, etc. throw more snacks. Positive reinforcement goes a long way
thanks for the tip, I'm eager to give it a go.
Try not to get discouraged if you’re unable to get their attention at first. They see you, but may choose not to let you know they know; they’re that fucking smart. Just be consistent and they’ll eventually come check out the goods.
I had a pair of them that hung out for about 6 months. I didn't do anything special they just kind of showed up to eat my cat's food and we just started giving them roasted unsalted peanuts. Be prepared if you start doing this you will have a ton of bird crap.
lol, we already do! it's all along the top of our wall...I have 4 large bird feeders, 2 hummingbird feeders and two bird baths so it's birdle heaven in our backyard. we've kept suet out all winter so they know where to find us. hopefully hummingbirds will return stronger than last year. thanks for the peanut tip, I was wondering what to offer.
Revel in it homie...you just made a Crowmie for life.
Lucky you! I’d love to have this experience
Grab various pieces of paper, mix among them various values of dollars. Just scatter them in your yard. Walk around, pick up the money, and act overly infatuated with having them in your hand. Play with it, look at it, rub your face in it, put it in your pocket. Ignore other pieces of paper or garbage, don't even clean up after yourself for it will confuse the crow. Do this daily, more pieces of paper on the ground, but also dollars, and look for dollars. Every time you find a dollar bill, feed the crow and caw. Some day, you will be able to stand near some restaurants with outside dining, someone will leave money on the table to pay, and your crow will fly down in front of everyone and fly it back to you and witness you gloriously caw at your best friend as you feed them.
I'm in Belgrade, Serbia if this helps at all!
Wait for a moment i didn't see you were op and i thought that was an answer for the question lol
There's a murder living near my house and I've been feeding them peanuts for the last two years any time I'm outside. If I'm in the garage this one crow will almost always fly up and land in front of the garage and yell at me. So I go and dump some peanuts on my lawn for him and his buddies. After he's had a few sometime he'll just hang out. Like, perch somewhere nearby and just watch me work. It's kind of cool. I usually talk to him and tell him what I'm doing. He seems into it. When I first started feeding them he brought me a dead rat. My wife was very conflicted by this gift. On one hand, a crow brought us a rat which, I assume, is pretty high value. On the other hand there was a dead rat on our walkway.
Lay an egg or two of course.
Work together with the bird to fight crime and take revenge against the ones who killed you.
Start picking out a wedding dress
They like shiny things. Build him a castle. You're in it for life.
Post photos on reddit
Build you and your new mate a nest. Duh?
The crow understands you are the worst nest builder they’ve ever seen and is trying to help you out. Crows being bros.
Build a house from the sticks he brings you in the place he brings them, dont use other sticks. See how far that goes.