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I like watching crows, they're smart animals. Once saw a crow trying to crack open a walnut. After pecking at it without success, it decided to try picking it up, flying up and dropping it on an asphalt road below. After that failed attempt it sat looking at the nut for a minute. After several cars had passed, it picked up the walnut and placed it in the road. After more cars had passed, the crow would adjust the location of the nut until finally a truck managed to break it open enough for the crow to peck out the nut inside. What an amazing animal. Since then I've grown to like crows. I know why they harass the hawks, but I like hawks as well.
Last week I saw a crow attempt the exact same thing on a local street, it kept dropping the walnut to no avail. While the crow was up on the building top I helped it out by smashing the walnut with my foot. It waited until I was a couple hundred feet away, then swooped down and enjoyed its appetizer.
@@NipkowDisk That's so cool, I'll take my grandson out every morning before I'm off to work to watch crows fly in. Even got the kid to call out to the crows. Caw caw caw...lol. And again in the evening before they fly off to wherever they rest for the night. Glad you got a personal experience with one.
I thought the crow funeral was a myth until I saw one. It took place over a period of a few days and ended when I buried the dead crow. The mourners watched me then just left. They are fascinating to watch as they patrol the valley here.
All corvids are fascinating but crows hold a special place in my heart. Growing up we had a "rescued" baby crow that lived free flying around our house for twenty years. I could write a book on his antics, but on trick he taught himself was to ring our doorbell whenever he got hungry. Obligingly, we would bring him something tasty to eat.
Have you ever considered writing a book about it, or some kind of record? I don't know how many books like this exist already, but I'd like to read one!
I had a pet crow as a Kid. He would dip pieces of his morning donut in coffee. Best pet I ever had. He would ride on my shoulder down to catch the morning school bus and be waiting in a tree right over the stop when I got dropped off.
Actually, it's often the females that are "unfaithful"! Similar to prehistoric humans, the females would sometimes copulate with more males than just their mate, often one after another sometimes. Likewise, her mate would likely have engaged in the male segment of said behavior (i.e. they might be one of the males that mate with a female after she's mated with another... mate isn't the right word, but you know what I mean)
Love Crows. Always feed them when they come over, especially if it's a long rough winter. Some times when I walk to the grocery store, if one of my crow friends see me... I'll have a crow escorting me home, flying tree to tree. This has been happening for 3 years. Trust and friendship. The crow family gets bigger, and I love it.
Hi Lesley! I am 59 years old and have crow encounters throughout my entire life. They do recognize people and tend to show up at important times in my family's lives. My kids have grown up watching how the crows interact with each other and with us. I am passing this down to my granddaughter now. Just as crows have strong family bonds, they also have recognized my children throughout the years. They are so smart and loving. I really appreciate your corvid videos. Thank you so much for sharing the good side of them!
I adore crows. There is a type here, in the Yucatan, that sprints along the Carribean coast and has a deep melodious whistle as well as other vocals. Sometimes they fly just over the beach, one noisily chatting to another. When they land to grab a few of the teaming insects in the seaweed, the chattering continues. Other times they are silent. They've begun to trust me a little as I sit quietly in a beach chair admiring them. These are scruffy seeming in comparison with the sleekness of the American crows you showed and with whom I'm most familiar. They add immeasurably to my day, every day.
Hello Lesley! I love your videos, but you already know that. Crows are my friends here in rural PA. I invite them to roost and nest around my property as they are the BEST defenders of my chickens against Hawks. Since the crows don't tolerate hawks, they drive them off and my free-ranging chickens don't have to fear the skies :) The Feathered Ape... aptly named :) I am happy to see your channel continue to grow! Finally... will they eat mice? Your information about them being song-birds is VERY interesting! Thank you again and again...
Frederick Dunn I don't know about eating mice, but when I laid a dead rat (non poisoned) out on our lawn, they showed up and stripped it down to the spine, and chopped it into three pieces. Yum, yum... crow pizza! My Wife was not impressed.
Hey Frederick, sorry for the late reply. Just seeing it now as I try to catch up on comments. That's awesome about the crows keeping the hawks away from your chickens. Thank you, I'm amazed that my channel has grown this much. It's great :) And finally, your question about whether crows ear mice or not. I'm not sure if they eat live mice because I've never seen it before but I have seen them eating dead ones. I imagine that are capable of catching and killing a mouse though. Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for the nice comment. Have a wonderful day!
They love table scraps. Good things to give them are hard boiled eggs and peanuts. They love hard boiled eggs shell and all. Of course you can Google things that are good to feed them. There is a crow at my work that has lunch with me every day lol. It has remembered me since last year
good advice below about food they like... I also purchased a crow call, and... it works. If they're in earshot, anyway (it has shorter range than their vocal cords), they WILL have their attention grabbed. I just introduced myself to a flock of 6, and they circled myself and my house 3-4 times talking back to me and examining me! Now I need food!
@@JesseDylanMusic They never forget people that are kind to them and feed them. They never forget those faces . They also never forget a face that was mean to them LMAO. Get ready to be dive bombed🤣🤣🤣. Love those birds💖
I enjoyed your video about crows. I happen to love crows. I feed three crows daily; Buck, Delores and Junior. My cats are finicky, and the crows love the leftover wet cat food. Most mornings, before I get up, I hear their loud calls outside. I feed birds in my backyard, and once I'm outside, the three crows sit in the big nearby tree watching me. When I start to put out the cat food, they move to within two feet of me. I move slowly while putting the food on the ground, and of course tell each of them good morning and how beautiful they are. I enjoy watching them fill their beaks with food and then fly away to eat it. I sincerely enjoy these beautiful crows.
This Spring, a crow took one of four fledgling Robins... my wife was devastated. Your videos gave her a love for crows that very day. Awesome stuff. Thank you.
I used to hate crows..but now I know how intelligent they are i respect them..The north American Native American tribes called crows.."the hawk that hunts walking"
@@cordongrouch9323 some pigeons have received metals for their fine work during WW1 and 2. Pigeons are a man-made species who've we now kicked to the curb. Instead of poisoning them the cities can now purchase pellets which contain birth control. I agree with your starlings' remark, many people like them but I don't, they even steal the crevice/nest which the woodpeckers have undoughtedly worked so hard to construct.
@@joseenoel8093 Rock doves (pigeons) are not man-made. They are an invasive species in America, as are starlings. Both bully other native species and compete for food. Starlings damage crops so farmers don't like them. Pigeon poop is no joke in the cities either, although they have adapted to living there. I said nothing about killing them... Thank you for informing me about the birth control angle. Also, messenger pigeons are not man-made; we merely took advantage of their homing instinct thus the other name for them: homing pigeons.
In Australia crows wait by water holes for animals to get a drink and the crows proceed to groom and remove ticks from the animal drinking water. That's a very necessary service they provide and it's super smart. Instead of looking for food they wait for it to come to them
we have a murder of crows that hang in the yard. they know the feeding schedule and respond accordingly. they greet us noisily if we falter from that timeline.
I used to leave peanuts on the same brick on a wall I would walk past because there were some crows always in the tree just above. Sometimes I would forget and walk past that brick without leaving peanuts, and they'd gently caw so I'd go back and leave some.
@@eschwarz1003 I have wild crows that leave me gifts regularly. I make them 3x lightly scrambled eggs every day at the same time, and place it in a bowl next to their water bowl. It took about a week of doing this every single day at an exact time, and 2 years later they shout for me at the windows if I'm late
There was a wild crow who used to visit me, and I was absolutely amazed by its intelligence and personality. I never knew birds could be so smart. It was smarter than some people I know, I kid you not. It had a sense of humor, sometimes a cruel one, it pranked, stole things, hid things, intentionally scared people, teased people, it laughed, it performed tricks and antics (unsolicited), it used tools, it left gifts. When not mischievous, so affectionate, loving and sweet. I was so sad when I had to move away because of that bird. It was the only thing I was sad about.
Thank you for this. I live in Chatham, Ontario and every autumn we have hundreds of thousands of these beauties come to our city. Many people are distressed about this and kill hundreds of them every year, but this does not deter my friends, they still keep coming back. I have started taking food with me when I go for my walks so that I can feed some of them. I have made friends with some of them and can even tell them apart when they come for food. I am an artist, a sculptor actually, and I have just finished a piece of a crows head, using a small blue sapphire for the pupil. My best work yet. I wear it around my neck quite often.
I love our crows so much!!! Especially the one that I call "the watchdog" he sits on the wire outside our kitchen window and always appears around suppertime. I know its him (or her) because they have a funny little feather that sticks up out of their wing. I always throw my meat scraps out to them. I purposely leave extra meat on the bones for them 😉🖤🖤🖤 They are beautiful, smart and hilarious birds!
It's usually the youngest crow that hangs out at known food sources and alerts the rest when they see it. Crows are family oriented, community minded, and so intelligent. We should all be that way for a better existence.. ✌
you doing gud...CROWS take the message the Lord of Death that you have been kind...you are lucky...very rare occurrence...messengers of the kingdom of justice...plus there is a great personality who is a crow...
I was mobbed by a gang 20 or so juvie males as a young girl out in a back field far from the farmhouse and it was a scary till they lost interest. Took me a while to get back to appreciating how clever they are.
I used to dislike crow because they'd watch when l'd plant my sweet corn. When l left they'd move in. I thought they were going to eat all my hard work. But they must have just been curious because my corn still came up to my surprise! I now feed my crow family everyday and enjoy watching them immensely. Thank you after watching these videos l realized how interesting they really are.
I think there are a few reasons. 1) There are still superstitions about Crows. e.g. a friend told me they are a harbinger of death..... 2) Some have seen them kill small prey (for food) - but find humans killing pretty much anything that annoys them/gets in their way - acceptable.... 3) Some people only like intelligence in other animals, when it boils down to the other animal doing as they are told....
I am absolutely fascinated by all of the sounds that I am hearing "my" crows make. I would love for you to do another video about their sounds. Some of them say "hello" to me when I come outside.
I remember once I fed a crow a chip, he picked it up and put it in a water hole just to soften it. That sparked my curiosity about crows and how interesting they are.
I feed a bunch of birds in my back yard including scrub jays, blue jays, Stellar's Jays, magpies as well as crows and ravens (occasionally!). The crows don't necessarily come to my feeder they just stay back at the tree line then watch where the busy busy Jays cache their nuts. LOL I love those crows, they are body guards for the rest of the birds at the feeder for most of the year. I've watched them chase off raptors and keep the neighborhood cats on their toes. It's a bird eat egg world during breeding season but for the rest of the year things seem to be so peaceful.
I love them for this reason, too - as well as for their cleverness. I like their song! At the beginning of the pandemic, the songbirds in our neighborhood seemed to disappear. I was really sad, knowing that other covid viruses had killed birds before. My friend said maybe it was just a hawk scared the birds away. I didn’t think so. After a few weeks of the neighborhood being quiet and still, the birds came back! Holy cow I was so relieved. The local crows do harry hawks and other raptors out of the neighborhood occasionally, and I like to put out a big bag of unsalted nuts for them when they do.
This is one of my favorite videos. I love crows. Across the street from one of my deliveries is a family of at least 50 to 60 members. It's beautiful to watch them. I love your heart.
@@pulasm_fireyy3775 they are smarter than you! Just remember if you kill one the crows watching you remember your face and they will convey that to all other crows. If you don't believe look it up. The University of Washington proved. A murder of crows never forgets you face and it gets passed down their families. Much smarter than us humans!
I love your footage of crows in this video. Their eyes are so piercing and intelligent-looking. I think some people don't like crows just because they can tell that these birds are a lot smarter than they are.
I started feeding 2 pairs of crows last autumn near my house. Late spring they brought their fledglings- 4 of them for each pair! Later I learned that is unusual for them to be able to keep all their babies alive. I like to think that those scraps of meat and seed I kept giving them helped at least a few crows in my neighborhood. They aren't afraid of me landing just in front of me or walking very close to me waiting for some food. 😊
I've always loved them. They are the protectors of the neighborhood. They always let us know when something is wrong. The fact that so many people dislike these amazing creatures hurts my heart.
Hello fellow Crow lover!! I am known by my friends & family as WOMAN WHO STANDS WITH CROWS. I absolutely love these marvelous birds. I feed mine & they talk to me & I talk to them. Their so very very intelligent.
ABSOLUTELY !! Crows are absolutely AMAZING birds. I've enjoyed some wonderful interactions with them over my lifetime. I find crows FASCINATING and I LOVE, APPRECIATE, RESPECT, and ADORE them with ALL OF MY HEART. If more people in our society would only realize how magnificent, interesting & beneficial these birds TRULY are !!
I love learning about God’s creations. We know some animals do have self-awareness, so fascinating. My great grandfather had a ‘pet’ crow he called Carlo.
@@defuncthusky6649 they truly are annoying aren't they lmao. Im not religious but atheists shove it down my throat so much what they are it makes me wanna become Christian or someshit out of spite
I love our crows!! They are compassionate and intelligent. We feed our birds and squirrels. So they are use to us being around. Last year, my brother had a knee replacement and had to walk outside with a walker. It was February and into March so I feed berries and nuts. My brother and I went out to exercise his knee, and the crows were in the yard. They could see his struggle. When we returned, there were berries and nuts on the back steps!! These gifts, continued as long as my brother used his walker!!!! About six weeks!! One day there was a feather and a shell! Another day, a sprig of holly! Those crows were and remain unselfish and they observe their environment closely.💞💞💞
Many thanks, Lesley, for all the information on birds. I don't consider myself a "Bird Watcher," however, I have always enjoyed watching birds and listening to their songs. Thank you so much for the clips on crows. I have always been impressed by them and their funny antics.
I love my crows, my family of crows have been coming for breakfast and dinner for about 8 years now, the family have 20 or so individual birds now, all I have to do is walk outside and they come. Aloha Birdnerd, have a great day today.
I love them! I used to feed a couple at a restaurant I worked at as a teen. They used to wait for breakfast and would caw outside until I brought it. 😂. Thanks for the great facts!
Dear Lesley, I love your videos, your facts are beautifully presented and your Canadian accent is so very charming. In Australia we also have crows, ravens and other song birds. The East Coast magpie (found in my home town, Sydney) has the MOST beautiful song. Once your local magpie knows you it will consider your a friend, woe betide you if they dislike you. My local magpie knows me and I occasionally give it ground mince as a treat though I try not to feed it too much. One day, when this dreadful pandemic ends, visit Sydney, you'll love our birds, too.
Crows in captivity have been able to speak human language, quite often. There are also stories of crows in the wild who learned human language or even whistling. There is a very famous story of a crow that learned to say "here boy, here boy" and then whistle by imitating the owner of a dog. Over time, many people in the town reported not only witnessing the crow do this, the crow was able to actually get dogs to follow it frequently. I thought this was an urban legend, but I looked into it extensively, and it does seem to be true; happened in the midwest of the U.S. in the 70's. There are also countless videos of wild crows inventing games, my favorite being the Russian surfing crow, who found some piece of debris and was filmed using it repeatedly to basically sled down a snowy roof. This is 100% fact and the video is on UA-cam. Wild crows also have distinct memories of individual people. While much of this is hearsay, I have MANY stories I could tell, there are well documented cases like the little girl who was brought thousands of "gifts" from the wild crows she fed. Also a video on UA-cam. Clearly, I love these birds, lol.
I loved reading all of these interesting stories and facts about crows you listed. Wow they are just awesome birds. I remember watching the video of one sliding on a roof. It was just amazing, he kept bringing it back up to the top and sliding back down. It was clearly having fun, such a cool video. Thanks for reminding me of it..I'm going to go see if it's still on youtube. ♥️🐦
@@LesleytheBirdNerd there are also a couple of long term scientific studies that claim, with evidence, they’re more intelligent than even chimps and dolphins. These are my favorite birds, so I’ve read and watched far too much about them.
We rescued a baby magpie that had been blown out it’s nest,that bird could talk and wolf whistle,I could rest him on his back and put him to sleep stroking his beak💗
In the nova or nature special not sure which. One..it was titled "A Murder of Cows" they showed a study done at a university ..I think it was in Seattle where they tested their ability of facial recognition. Crows absolutely proved to have it. They always knew when the "bad guy" was around and always alerted every time he showed up.
I have had a bonded pair and their single sidekick hanging out around my house for over two years now. They watch and listen closely for when I open the patio door. There may be just one standing guard who’ll call to the others if I toss out scraps or peanuts. I swear they recognize me and know my voice.
I LOVE crows! If you told me they could read an encyclopedia then recite it, it would not surprise me. They're amazing. I happen to love their call, it's my ringtone!
A few years back, in Massachusetts, there were several crows being killed on roads. They determined from paint samples from beaks that trucks were hitting them. Several experts determined the sentries were good at warning ca', can, but not so good at truck, truck. One of my favorite birds. They're not afraid of my farm. I feed them, along with other birds.
I love crows. I like that when I feed them, they pretend to ignore the food until they know that they are not being watched by other crows. When it's safe they retrieve the food, but do not eat it. They hide it and wait for more. Thanks for your wonderful Chanel.
I have been fortunate to have befriended a family of 5 common Crows for nearly 2 years now. We became acquainted when the parents started coming around with their triplet fledglings. I could tell them apart because the chicks were smaller than the Parents. Now 2 yrs later I can only tell who one bird is. I think it's either the Mother or Father because he/she is slightly bigger than the others and has one chest feather that has stuck out all summer. She's the one that's in charge of keeping an eye out for my food offerings at my place. I named her Scruffy. At first they were extremely wary of my presence, I couldn't even peek out the corner of my window and they would fly away. After a few weeks, they allowed me to view them from the window. At approximately 9-9:30 every morning Scruffy comes and begs for food landing on the big Maple tree out the window of my house. I feed them table scraps, cheap dog kibble, and a chuck of cheap canned dog food. Oh and I get an awesome deal on 5# shell peanuts at Sam's Club. (Half the price than bird centers) they love those peanuts. It's amazing because with only one bird keeping an eye on the place, all of a sudden there's the whole damn family showing up after foods put out. It's winter so I can't hear their caws but I'm certain they're all called in. Speaking of Caws, I was working in the yard the other day and man they are loudmouths, cawing back and forth throughout the whole neighborhood. Oh and I do have a crow call and I do use it on them time to time. They usually shut up when I use it lol. It is said a Crows caw can be heard up to a mile away, I believe it. Oh one last thing, many years ago I was walking my dog in the back acreage and the Crows were raising hell at a Redtail Hawk. I startled the Hawk and it dropped a large fledgling Crow. It was already bloodied and dead. So what goes around comes around and the Crows know that.
I love your videos so much! Thank you. A while ago, after learning how smart crows and ravens are, I started gaining appreciation and respect for these birds and I think corvids are definitely among my favorite kinds of birds (I wish I could befriend the ones that live in my neighborhood, or is it I who lives in their hood?). Anyway, thanks for sharing your passion and knowledge of birds with us :)
I’m currently working to befriend a small family of crows, with peanuts, fruit, and hotdogs 😂 and they now know my face and voice and will sit for periods of time on my roof. I love the them!
@@eddy72809 They come multiple times around per day. The were never disrespectful against the smaller birds, that's so impressive. They also like 🥜 more than anything else. Grettings from Germany.
@@johnjupiter9384 They REALLY love salted peanuts, but unsalted is OK. They also like raw peanuts but cannot break them into little bits. It is fun to watch them pick the shells apart.
How could someone dislike this beautiful video? I just don’t understand... Thank you so much for this amazing video, Lesley! This brings so much joy to me during this Quarantine.
I adore crows. Our pair often makes a call that sounds like meowing. Pretty neat. We leave peanuts out for them and they see us bringing out treats and start calling, and they know our cars too. I usually know when my husband is coming home and is on the curving road leading to our house... because the crows start calling long before he even pulls in the driveway. They’re awesome. I do wish we had hooded crows. Those guys are hilarious how they stir up trouble between cats by pulling on their tails. Our American crows do that as well, but not as often. Anyway, lovely video as always.
Intelligent, playful, thoughtful animals. Wonderful listening to your video, thank you for trying to explain to people the unfair rap that crows have received over the years. I discovered a grounded crow in the spring, contacted a Corvid rehab center, was able to successfully capture and deliver him to the rehab facility, he's doing well and almost ready for release. I felt like it was one of the most important things I had ever accomplished.
I feed a family of crows every morning. This morning I had some new crows show up, very big with small ones. I had not seen these before, and was amazed at how big they were!
For me the most interesting fact about crows is that you can find them all over the world in the most unusual places. I found many of them in the city of Tokyo Japan. And also down in Costa Rica. They are everywhere because they are survivors.
I’ve always liked crows and ravens they’re beautiful birds but the fact that I found most interesting was the suggested that they have a self-consciousness.
Hi Lesley: Thanks for this! I love Crows and would love to have one for a friend. They don't come around our yard much, Whenever I see them I try to act friendly toward them. The one study where the researchers wearing masks were unpleasant to the crows, and generations of crows attacked anyone wearing the mask. In other words crows that were not even hatched yet during the experiment knew to be aggressive to anyone wearing the mask. I always smile and acknowledge them as equals. Maybe one day they will stop in to say hi...
Thank you for this information about crows. For a number of years I lived on a farm with a thousand pecan trees which was an attraction to crows. We had them in abundance, in hundreds or thousands. They are clearly intelligent and resourceful.
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At 3:10 I thought the curved beak means it's a raven, or are terms basically interchangeable?
WHERE ARE THE LINKS TO THE STUDIES IN THE DESCRIPTION? The video says links to the new studies are in the description but they're not there!
Please share with us the new studies you referred to!
There’s no link in the description about the study you were talking about. You lied to me😢
I just got two baby crows could use any advice for a pet crow
I like watching crows, they're smart animals. Once saw a crow trying to crack open a walnut. After pecking at it without success, it decided to try picking it up, flying up and dropping it on an asphalt road below. After that failed attempt it sat looking at the nut for a minute. After several cars had passed, it picked up the walnut and placed it in the road. After more cars had passed, the crow would adjust the location of the nut until finally a truck managed to break it open enough for the crow to peck out the nut inside. What an amazing animal. Since then I've grown to like crows. I know why they harass the hawks, but I like hawks as well.
Yep! They are very smart they can remember faces as well!
Last week I saw a crow attempt the exact same thing on a local street, it kept dropping the walnut to no avail. While the crow was up on the building top I helped it out by smashing the walnut with my foot. It waited until I was a couple hundred feet away, then swooped down and enjoyed its appetizer.
@@NipkowDisk That's so cool, I'll take my grandson out every morning before I'm off to work to watch crows fly in. Even got the kid to call out to the crows. Caw caw caw...lol. And again in the evening before they fly off to wherever they rest for the night. Glad you got a personal experience with one.
I thought the crow funeral was a myth until I saw one. It took place over a period of a few days and ended when I buried the dead crow. The mourners watched me then just left. They are fascinating to watch as they patrol the valley here.
I witnessed a crow chasing two doves off a building. All it had to do was walk towards them.
All corvids are fascinating but crows hold a special place in my heart. Growing up we had a "rescued" baby crow that lived free flying around our house for twenty years. I could write a book on his antics, but on trick he taught himself was to ring our doorbell whenever he got hungry. Obligingly, we would bring him something tasty to eat.
Have you ever considered writing a book about it, or some kind of record? I don't know how many books like this exist already, but I'd like to read one!
That's an amazing story.
You should write a children's book about it. It sould like a beautiful family story!
Please share more!
@@JesseDylanMusic that brings to mind the book _That Quail, Robert_ which I read at my grandmother's house.
I had a pet crow as a Kid. He would dip pieces of his morning donut in coffee. Best pet I ever had. He would ride on my shoulder down to catch the morning school bus and be waiting in a tree right over the stop when I got dropped off.
Amazing
A best friend ❤️
Wow now that's what I call being blessed 👍
My favorite bird. I think crows have a sense of humor,
Male crow to female crow: "Honest baby, I swear it, I'm 100% faithful 80% of the time."
Actually, it's often the females that are "unfaithful"! Similar to prehistoric humans, the females would sometimes copulate with more males than just their mate, often one after another sometimes. Likewise, her mate would likely have engaged in the male segment of said behavior (i.e. they might be one of the males that mate with a female after she's mated with another... mate isn't the right word, but you know what I mean)
@@JesseDylanMusic prehistoric humans lol, women do it today dude, forget about prehistory
@@7yep4336dfgvvh true and they complain we are unfaithful
Beautiful intelligent birds.
Love Crows. Always feed them when they come over, especially if it's a long rough winter. Some times when I walk to the grocery store, if one of my crow friends see me... I'll have a crow escorting me home, flying tree to tree. This has been happening for 3 years. Trust and friendship. The crow family gets bigger, and I love it.
I really enjoy crows I feed them every morning they are fascinating there behavior is so amazing,
Hi Lesley! I am 59 years old and have crow encounters throughout my entire life. They do recognize people and tend to show up at important times in my family's lives. My kids have grown up watching how the crows interact with each other and with us. I am passing this down to my granddaughter now. Just as crows have strong family bonds, they also have recognized my children throughout the years. They are so smart and loving. I really appreciate your corvid videos. Thank you so much for sharing the good side of them!
I adore crows. There is a type here, in the Yucatan, that sprints along the Carribean coast and has a deep melodious whistle as well as other vocals. Sometimes they fly just over the beach, one noisily chatting to another. When they land to grab a few of the teaming insects in the seaweed, the chattering continues. Other times they are silent. They've begun to trust me a little as I sit quietly in a beach chair admiring them. These are scruffy seeming in comparison with the sleekness of the American crows you showed and with whom I'm most familiar. They add immeasurably to my day, every day.
Hello Lesley! I love your videos, but you already know that. Crows are my friends here in rural PA. I invite them to roost and nest around my property as they are the BEST defenders of my chickens against Hawks. Since the crows don't tolerate hawks, they drive them off and my free-ranging chickens don't have to fear the skies :) The Feathered Ape... aptly named :) I am happy to see your channel continue to grow! Finally... will they eat mice? Your information about them being song-birds is VERY interesting! Thank you again and again...
Frederick Dunn I don't know about eating mice, but when I laid a dead rat (non poisoned) out on our lawn, they showed up and stripped it down to the spine, and chopped it into three pieces. Yum, yum... crow pizza! My Wife was not impressed.
Hey Frederick, sorry for the late reply. Just seeing it now as I try to catch up on comments. That's awesome about the crows keeping the hawks away from your chickens. Thank you, I'm amazed that my channel has grown this much. It's great :) And finally, your question about whether crows ear mice or not. I'm not sure if they eat live mice because I've never seen it before but I have seen them eating dead ones. I imagine that are capable of catching and killing a mouse though.
Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for the nice comment. Have a wonderful day!
Crows are my favorite animal. And I love hearing them sing. Thanks for another great video.
Not gonna lie, I wanna befriend a crow or raven :’)
we all do, one day we will
They love table scraps. Good things to give them are hard boiled eggs and peanuts. They love hard boiled eggs shell and all. Of course you can Google things that are good to feed them. There is a crow at my work that has lunch with me every day lol. It has remembered me since last year
good advice below about food they like... I also purchased a crow call, and... it works. If they're in earshot, anyway (it has shorter range than their vocal cords), they WILL have their attention grabbed. I just introduced myself to a flock of 6, and they circled myself and my house 3-4 times talking back to me and examining me! Now I need food!
@@JesseDylanMusic They never forget people that are kind to them and feed them. They never forget those faces . They also never forget a face that was mean to them LMAO. Get ready to be dive bombed🤣🤣🤣. Love those birds💖
Can't blame you! They're both awesome!!
I enjoyed your video about crows. I happen to love crows. I feed three crows daily; Buck, Delores and Junior. My cats are finicky, and the crows love the leftover wet cat food. Most mornings, before I get up, I hear their loud calls outside. I feed birds in my backyard, and once I'm outside, the three crows sit in the big nearby tree watching me. When I start to put out the cat food, they move to within two feet of me. I move slowly while putting the food on the ground, and of course tell each of them good morning and how beautiful they are. I enjoy watching them fill their beaks with food and then fly away to eat it. I sincerely enjoy these beautiful crows.
Sounds identical to my morning routine, I just love everything about them. 👍
This Spring, a crow took one of four fledgling Robins... my wife was devastated. Your videos gave her a love for crows that very day. Awesome stuff. Thank you.
I used to hate crows..but now I know how intelligent they are i respect them..The north American Native American tribes called crows.."the hawk that hunts walking"
Hating a bird species, ANY bird species certainly seems irrational, Good that you've flipped on this!
@@Prozrenie Pigeons are very messy and starlings are notorious pests.
@@cordongrouch9323 some pigeons have received metals for their fine work during WW1 and 2. Pigeons are a man-made species who've we now kicked to the curb. Instead of poisoning them the cities can now purchase pellets which contain birth control. I agree with your starlings' remark, many people like them but I don't, they even steal the crevice/nest which the woodpeckers have undoughtedly worked so hard to construct.
@@joseenoel8093 Rock doves (pigeons) are not man-made. They are an invasive species in America, as are starlings. Both bully other native species and compete for food. Starlings damage crops so farmers don't like them. Pigeon poop is no joke in the cities either, although they have adapted to living there.
I said nothing about killing them... Thank you for informing me about the birth control angle.
Also, messenger pigeons are not man-made; we merely took advantage of their homing instinct thus the other name for them: homing pigeons.
@@joseenoel8093 *medals.
In Australia crows wait by water holes for animals to get a drink and the crows proceed to groom and remove ticks from the animal drinking water. That's a very necessary service they provide and it's super smart. Instead of looking for food they wait for it to come to them
I like including Crows in my bird watching ventures, in fact finding them to be quite comical regularly.
we have a murder of crows that hang in the yard. they know the feeding schedule and respond accordingly. they greet us noisily if we falter from that timeline.
lucky; I've been unsuccessfully trying to attract some
@@eschwarz1003, they came of their own volition
I used to leave peanuts on the same brick on a wall I would walk past because there were some crows always in the tree just above. Sometimes I would forget and walk past that brick without leaving peanuts, and they'd gently caw so I'd go back and leave some.
When my school is quiet, the crows come down from the roofs and trees for food.
@@eschwarz1003 I have wild crows that leave me gifts regularly. I make them 3x lightly scrambled eggs every day at the same time, and place it in a bowl next to their water bowl.
It took about a week of doing this every single day at an exact time, and 2 years later they shout for me at the windows if I'm late
There was a wild crow who used to visit me, and I was absolutely amazed by its intelligence and personality. I never knew birds could be so smart. It was smarter than some people I know, I kid you not. It had a sense of humor, sometimes a cruel one, it pranked, stole things, hid things, intentionally scared people, teased people, it laughed, it performed tricks and antics (unsolicited), it used tools, it left gifts. When not mischievous, so affectionate, loving and sweet. I was so sad when I had to move away because of that bird. It was the only thing I was sad about.
I LOVE them. Absolutely LOVE them ! 😍😍😍😍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Why not, be happy. Do what makes you happy in life. Keep us posted.
Thank you for this. I live in Chatham, Ontario and every autumn we have hundreds of thousands of these beauties come to our city. Many people are distressed about this and kill hundreds of them every year, but this does not deter my friends, they still keep coming back. I have started taking food with me when I go for my walks so that I can feed some of them. I have made friends with some of them and can even tell them apart when they come for food.
I am an artist, a sculptor actually, and I have just finished a piece of a crows head, using a small blue sapphire for the pupil. My best work yet. I wear it around my neck quite often.
Cool. 👍
I love the crows that come into my backyard. They are so interesting and a family group. I hope they stay around.
Crows- no apologies- they are my favorite
Magpies and Crows coexist and even take turns after I feed them. Very social birds
I love our crows so much!!! Especially the one that I call "the watchdog" he sits on the wire outside our kitchen window and always appears around suppertime. I know its him (or her) because they have a funny little feather that sticks up out of their wing. I always throw my meat scraps out to them. I purposely leave extra meat on the bones for them 😉🖤🖤🖤 They are beautiful, smart and hilarious birds!
It's usually the youngest crow that hangs out at known food sources and alerts the rest when they see it. Crows are family oriented, community minded, and so intelligent. We should all be that way for a better existence.. ✌
I've watched them work together to tear up meat scraps, one crow will stand on the meat and hold it while another one pulls off pieces.
Yepp.... :)
you doing gud...CROWS take the message the Lord of Death that you have been kind...you are lucky...very rare occurrence...messengers of the kingdom of justice...plus there is a great personality who is a crow...
:) I purposely leave extra all the time as well for our Canada Jays and Crows
I TRULY LOVED MR. PIEWACKET !!! HE WAS A GOOD FRIEND FOR A BIRD
I have a large crow family that visit me daily. LOVE them!
i love crows they are my favorite animal =3
Crows are cool, not sure why ppl don't like them.
I was mobbed by a gang 20 or so juvie males as a young girl out in a back field far from the farmhouse and it was a scary till they lost interest. Took me a while to get back to appreciating how clever they are.
I used to dislike crow because they'd watch when l'd plant my sweet corn. When l left they'd move in. I thought they were going to eat all my hard work. But they must have just been curious because my corn still came up to my surprise! I now feed my crow family everyday and enjoy watching them immensely. Thank you after watching these videos l realized how interesting they really are.
I think there are a few reasons.
1) There are still superstitions about Crows. e.g. a friend told me they are a harbinger of death.....
2) Some have seen them kill small prey (for food) - but find humans killing pretty much anything that annoys them/gets in their way - acceptable....
3) Some people only like intelligence in other animals, when it boils down to the other animal doing as they are told....
Why do people like anything?
I've never really heard of people not liking them, other than from century-old tales and UA-cam comments
Aww I think they are cute😇💙🐕🦺🐾🌸🥑🦮🌲🌻🐕🐎🖤🍀💛🎬
I am absolutely fascinated by all of the sounds that I am hearing "my" crows make. I would love for you to do another video about their sounds. Some of them say "hello" to me when I come outside.
There's a crow out there that can fluently say hello. But yeah I believe crows can imitate sounds in some cases
@@google-searchin true. Ravens have such ranging vocals
Magnificent and wonderful birds. Such a joy when they come into the garden
I remember once I fed a crow a chip, he picked it up and put it in a water hole just to soften it. That sparked my curiosity about crows and how interesting they are.
I feed a bunch of birds in my back yard including scrub jays, blue jays, Stellar's Jays, magpies as well as crows and ravens (occasionally!). The crows don't necessarily come to my feeder they just stay back at the tree line then watch where the busy busy Jays cache their nuts. LOL I love those crows, they are body guards for the rest of the birds at the feeder for most of the year. I've watched them chase off raptors and keep the neighborhood cats on their toes. It's a bird eat egg world during breeding season but for the rest of the year things seem to be so peaceful.
I love them for this reason, too - as well as for their cleverness. I like their song!
At the beginning of the pandemic, the songbirds in our neighborhood seemed to disappear. I was really sad, knowing that other covid viruses had killed birds before. My friend said maybe it was just a hawk scared the birds away. I didn’t think so.
After a few weeks of the neighborhood being quiet and still, the birds came back! Holy cow I was so relieved. The local crows do harry hawks and other raptors out of the neighborhood occasionally, and I like to put out a big bag of unsalted nuts for them when they do.
so glad to live at a time when Corvids are gaining the respect they deserve.
I have come to love the Magpies that are quite common on the front range of Colorado!
i love these birds feed every day
This is one of my favorite videos. I love crows. Across the street from one of my deliveries is a family of at least 50 to 60 members. It's beautiful to watch them. I love your heart.
Crow's are so beautiful and cute
No
They are pests in Australia
They are not im trying to kill one rn
@@brycegould7939 Nah mate they're great if you're nice to them.
@@pulasm_fireyy3775 they are smarter than you! Just remember if you kill one the crows watching you remember your face and they will convey that to all other crows. If you don't believe look it up. The University of Washington proved. A murder of crows never forgets you face and it gets passed down their families. Much smarter than us humans!
I love your footage of crows in this video. Their eyes are so piercing and intelligent-looking. I think some people don't like crows just because they can tell that these birds are a lot smarter than they are.
I love crows they are beautiful and they are smart. Befriending one is a wonderful gift.
I started feeding 2 pairs of crows last autumn near my house. Late spring they brought their fledglings- 4 of them for each pair! Later I learned that is unusual for them to be able to keep all their babies alive. I like to think that those scraps of meat and seed I kept giving them helped at least a few crows in my neighborhood. They aren't afraid of me landing just in front of me or walking very close to me waiting for some food. 😊
Same
Thank you for helping the animal kingdom you've helped that family of crows continue to be well taken care of.
What a blessing to be loved by such beautiful creatures created by God 👍✝️
I've always loved them. They are the protectors of the neighborhood. They always let us know when something is wrong. The fact that so many people dislike these amazing creatures hurts my heart.
I really enjoy watching the crows outside my house every day
Hello fellow Crow lover!! I am known by my friends & family as WOMAN WHO STANDS WITH CROWS. I absolutely love these marvelous birds. I feed mine & they talk to me & I talk to them. Their so very very intelligent.
Crows are amazing animals! We should be so appreciative that we have these brainy birds in our life’s🥰❗️🔆
ABSOLUTELY !!
Crows are absolutely AMAZING birds. I've enjoyed some wonderful interactions with them over my lifetime. I find crows FASCINATING and I LOVE, APPRECIATE, RESPECT, and ADORE them with ALL OF MY HEART. If more people in our society would only realize how magnificent,
interesting & beneficial these birds TRULY are !!
Crows/corvids/ravens and chickens are my flock and if you don't care for them - CAW CAW CAW!
I wouldn't _bawk_ at that🐔! your youtube videos would prove it!😄
I love learning about God’s creations. We know some animals do have self-awareness, so fascinating. My great grandfather had a ‘pet’ crow he called Carlo.
Evolution is nice thing ain't it?
@@Slampty evolutionists when they see a christian comment be like
God's creations??? lolol
@@defuncthusky6649 they truly are annoying aren't they lmao. Im not religious but atheists shove it down my throat so much what they are it makes me wanna become Christian or someshit out of spite
@@davidc. yup
I love our crows!! They are compassionate and intelligent. We feed our birds and squirrels. So they are use to us being around. Last year, my brother had a knee replacement and had to walk outside with a walker. It was February and into March so I feed berries and nuts. My brother and I went out to exercise his knee, and the crows were in the yard. They could see his struggle. When we returned, there were berries and nuts on the back steps!! These gifts, continued as long as my brother used his walker!!!! About six weeks!! One day there was a feather and a shell! Another day, a sprig of holly! Those crows were and remain unselfish and they observe their environment closely.💞💞💞
Crows or just corvids in general are by far my favorite birds, they're reallly funny to watch, they're always pulling tricks on each other.
Many thanks, Lesley, for all the information on birds. I don't consider myself a "Bird Watcher," however, I have always enjoyed watching birds and listening to their songs. Thank you so much for the clips on crows. I have always been impressed by them and their funny antics.
They are so cute and smart 😍 I love crows! ❤️❤️❤️
Yes :)
@@eddy72809 🐦❤️
Love crows 🐦⬛
God loves the song of crows. He gave them their voice.
I love my crows, my family of crows have been coming for breakfast and dinner for about 8 years now, the family have 20 or so individual birds now, all I have to do is walk outside and they come. Aloha Birdnerd, have a great day today.
I love them! I used to feed a couple at a restaurant I worked at as a teen. They used to wait for breakfast and would caw outside until I brought it. 😂. Thanks for the great facts!
I love there sounds they make there very adorable birds
I love Crows! Crow consciousness--wow, fascinating=My favorite fact! Looking forward to the song bird video.
same
me too! :)
I am too
One of the most beautiful birds to ever live on this planet.
Love them. They are so lovely and so crazy smart.
Dear Lesley, I love your videos, your facts are beautifully presented and your Canadian accent is so very charming. In Australia we also have crows, ravens and other song birds. The East Coast magpie (found in my home town, Sydney) has the MOST beautiful song. Once your local magpie knows you it will consider your a friend, woe betide you if they dislike you. My local magpie knows me and I occasionally give it ground mince as a treat though I try not to feed it too much. One day, when this dreadful pandemic ends, visit Sydney, you'll love our birds, too.
Crows in captivity have been able to speak human language, quite often. There are also stories of crows in the wild who learned human language or even whistling. There is a very famous story of a crow that learned to say "here boy, here boy" and then whistle by imitating the owner of a dog. Over time, many people in the town reported not only witnessing the crow do this, the crow was able to actually get dogs to follow it frequently. I thought this was an urban legend, but I looked into it extensively, and it does seem to be true; happened in the midwest of the U.S. in the 70's.
There are also countless videos of wild crows inventing games, my favorite being the Russian surfing crow, who found some piece of debris and was filmed using it repeatedly to basically sled down a snowy roof. This is 100% fact and the video is on UA-cam.
Wild crows also have distinct memories of individual people. While much of this is hearsay, I have MANY stories I could tell, there are well documented cases like the little girl who was brought thousands of "gifts" from the wild crows she fed. Also a video on UA-cam.
Clearly, I love these birds, lol.
I loved reading all of these interesting stories and facts about crows you listed. Wow they are just awesome birds. I remember watching the video of one sliding on a roof. It was just amazing, he kept bringing it back up to the top and sliding back down. It was clearly having fun, such a cool video. Thanks for reminding me of it..I'm going to go see if it's still on youtube. ♥️🐦
@@LesleytheBirdNerd there are also a couple of long term scientific studies that claim, with evidence, they’re more intelligent than even chimps and dolphins. These are my favorite birds, so I’ve read and watched far too much about them.
I had a baby crow. I loved her. She is gone now and I watch her families every day. I taught her how to do funny laughs, she loved baths, I miss her.
We rescued a baby magpie that had been blown out it’s nest,that bird could talk and wolf whistle,I could rest him on his back and put him to sleep stroking his beak💗
In the nova or nature special not sure which. One..it was titled "A Murder of Cows" they showed a study done at a university ..I think it was in Seattle where they tested their ability of facial recognition. Crows absolutely proved to have it. They always knew when the "bad guy" was around and always alerted every time he showed up.
Crows are one of my favorite birds.
I love em!
Love crows, beautiful birds
I have had a bonded pair and their single sidekick hanging out around my house for over two years now. They watch and listen closely for when I open the patio door. There may be just one standing guard who’ll call to the others if I toss out scraps or peanuts. I swear they recognize me and know my voice.
You bet they know your voice & your face, even in a crowd!
My favorite bird, love them so much❤
I LOVE crows! If you told me they could read an encyclopedia then recite it, it would not surprise me. They're amazing. I happen to love their call, it's my ringtone!
I love crows.
I love my crows. They also talk a lot.
Thank you, all ways lovely video.
Thank you. I also love our crow friends. They are such magical creatures and very kind to humans that befriend them.
I find them very Interesting! 💖💖💖
I liked the fact about them being self-aware. That's really cool.
A few years back, in Massachusetts, there were several crows being killed on roads. They determined from paint samples from beaks that trucks were hitting them. Several experts determined the sentries were good at warning ca', can, but not so good at truck, truck. One of my favorite birds. They're not afraid of my farm. I feed them, along with other birds.
I love crows. I like that when I feed them, they pretend to ignore the food until they know that they are not being watched by other crows. When it's safe they retrieve the food, but do not eat it. They hide it and wait for more. Thanks for your wonderful Chanel.
I have been fortunate to have befriended a family of 5 common Crows for nearly 2 years now. We became acquainted when the parents started coming around with their triplet fledglings. I could tell them apart because the chicks were smaller than the Parents. Now 2 yrs later I can only tell who one bird is. I think it's either the Mother or Father because he/she is slightly bigger than the others and has one chest feather that has stuck out all summer. She's the one that's in charge of keeping an eye out for my food offerings at my place. I named her Scruffy. At first they were extremely wary of my presence, I couldn't even peek out the corner of my window and they would fly away. After a few weeks, they allowed me to view them from the window. At approximately 9-9:30 every morning Scruffy comes and begs for food landing on the big Maple tree out the window of my house.
I feed them table scraps, cheap dog kibble, and a chuck of cheap canned dog food. Oh and I get an awesome deal on 5# shell peanuts at Sam's Club. (Half the price than bird centers) they love those peanuts. It's amazing because with only one bird keeping an eye on the place, all of a sudden there's the whole damn family showing up after foods put out. It's winter so I can't hear their caws but I'm certain they're all called in. Speaking of Caws, I was working in the yard the other day and man they are loudmouths, cawing back and forth throughout the whole neighborhood. Oh and I do have a crow call and I do use it on them time to time. They usually shut up when I use it lol. It is said a Crows caw can be heard up to a mile away, I believe it.
Oh one last thing, many years ago I was walking my dog in the back acreage and the Crows were raising hell at a Redtail Hawk. I startled the Hawk and it dropped a large fledgling Crow. It was already bloodied and dead. So what goes around comes around and the Crows know that.
Such great personalities, these birds crack me up on a daily basis.
I love your videos so much! Thank you. A while ago, after learning how smart crows and ravens are, I started gaining appreciation and respect for these birds and I think corvids are definitely among my favorite kinds of birds (I wish I could befriend the ones that live in my neighborhood, or is it I who lives in their hood?). Anyway, thanks for sharing your passion and knowledge of birds with us :)
I’m currently working to befriend a small family of crows, with peanuts, fruit, and hotdogs 😂 and they now know my face and voice and will sit for periods of time on my roof. I love the them!
I love crows and ravens. They are so smart. And thereare a lot of birds that kill other birds. Most people just don't know
Love my crows
I feed them every day like the other birds in my garden.
hehe I never get crows in my yard.
@@eddy72809 They come multiple times around per day. The were never disrespectful against the smaller birds, that's so impressive. They also like 🥜 more than anything else. Grettings from Germany.
So lucky! I get crows occasionally, they enjoy air popped popcorn in my yard hehe :)
I used to feed a group at my former workplace. It was so entertaining watching them eat among other activities.
@@johnjupiter9384 They REALLY love salted peanuts, but unsalted is OK. They also like raw peanuts but cannot break them into little bits. It is fun to watch them pick the shells apart.
Crows are beautiful and extremely smart bird!!! I love them!!
How could someone dislike this beautiful video? I just don’t understand... Thank you so much for this amazing video, Lesley! This brings so much joy to me during this Quarantine.
I adore crows. Our pair often makes a call that sounds like meowing. Pretty neat. We leave peanuts out for them and they see us bringing out treats and start calling, and they know our cars too. I usually know when my husband is coming home and is on the curving road leading to our house... because the crows start calling long before he even pulls in the driveway. They’re awesome. I do wish we had hooded crows. Those guys are hilarious how they stir up trouble between cats by pulling on their tails. Our American crows do that as well, but not as often. Anyway, lovely video as always.
Intelligent, playful, thoughtful animals. Wonderful listening to your video, thank you for trying to explain to people the unfair rap that crows have received over the years.
I discovered a grounded crow in the spring, contacted a Corvid rehab center, was able to successfully capture and deliver him to the rehab facility, he's doing well and almost ready for release. I felt like it was one of the most important things I had ever accomplished.
This makes the Lord happy 👍🦅🦚🐦👍
Lesley the Bird Nerd deserves a lot of credit for her excellent UA-cam channel... I've been looking it over an love it...!
I love crows so much, keep them in a good spotlight Lesley
I feed a family of crows every morning. This morning I had some new crows show up, very big with small ones. I had not seen these before, and was amazed at how big they were!
For me the most interesting fact about crows is that you can find them all over the world in the most unusual places. I found many of them in the city of Tokyo Japan. And also down in Costa Rica. They are everywhere because they are survivors.
A BIG thank you, Lesley, for all the knowledge and love of birds you share with all of us.
I’ve always liked crows and ravens they’re beautiful birds but the fact that I found most interesting was the suggested that they have a self-consciousness.
they do are self conscious about stuff 🤨
i like crows too☝️
Love your crows.
I interact with a Murder of Crow's now for 6 years! I really enjoy all you share about your observance of Birds !! Thanks :)
Birds are amazing and so joyful to look at. I am a bird person, my cat loves them too.
Hi Lesley: Thanks for this! I love Crows and would love to have one for a friend. They don't come around our yard much, Whenever I see them I try to act friendly toward them. The one study where the researchers wearing masks were unpleasant to the crows, and generations of crows attacked anyone wearing the mask. In other words crows that were not even hatched yet during the experiment knew to be aggressive to anyone wearing the mask. I always smile and acknowledge them as equals. Maybe one day they will stop in to say hi...
Thank you for this information about crows. For a number of years I lived on a farm with a thousand pecan trees which was an attraction to crows. We had them in abundance, in hundreds or thousands. They are clearly intelligent and resourceful.
Cute
yes very cute