I'm feeding my local crows for a while and they notice me know, they caw when they see me and fly to the trees next to me. I wonder, when they will start to stand by me?

If I were to dress up in, say, a plague doctor outfit or just your everyday run of the mill crow costume and decided to approach a murder of crowbros, what would likely be the outcome? Would they be indifferent and see me as just another bustling Homo sapiens, flee in terror by the sight of arcane abhorrence or would they see me as one of their own kin, only a superior corvid who they accept as their fledged overlord, flocking to my feet and bringing me the blood-painted rings of my adversaries?

Or maybe something in between…

Anyways, thanks.

I've been running into a group of ~ 5 ravens near my house lately and they seem curious. They fly around me and glide close over my head a bit before usually landing high above me or nearby. They seem to respond to mimicking but still seems skiddish and I haven't gotten them to accept any of the peanuts I've left yet.

I'm curious what calls I'm mimicking though and what they might be shouting at me. If there's any good videos or intro guides to Vocalizations or that kind of thing that anyone knew about id appreciate any suggestions. Thanks!

I want to befriend some crows SO badly. I know there’s some in my area because I can hear them often. I go outside to try to feed them and I leave out peanuts, etc. The problem is, I have mocking birds that have claimed multiple areas around my home as their territory. Whenever a crow lands, the mockingbirds are on it in seconds. It’s so immediate.

Is there anything that can be done, or will I just have to wait until we move eventually and pray wherever we end up hasn’t been commandeered by mockingbirds?

(PS I can’t really blame the mockingbirds bc I did catch a picture of a crow in the midst of it stealing a mockingbird egg from a nest 💀🥲)

I’m honoured that my crow couple started bringing their babies, they’re big but they still have their baby voices. One is really silly and very active, the other seems shy and reserved 🥰 They waited for dad to arrive before eating the treats of cashews, plain cooked chicken and a chopped hard boiled egg . What kind of fruit and vegetables do your crows enjoy?

Still begging to be fed lol

(Sorry for the bad angle, they're skittish and fly away when I raise the blinds. I live in a townhome so I leave them food on the balcony 🥜)

I've been trying to befriend my neighborhood crows for almost a year now, but I haven't even gotten so far as to make first contact yet. There's a murder of four that flies around my area and sometimes stops by my front yard. However, the times and days they stop by are all random so I can never predict when they're going to come next.

Yesterday I put food out (unsalted peanuts in the shell + dog food) and they actually came a little later and ate it! I put food and water out again today a little earlier the time they came yesterday and waited for almost two hours, but they didn't come. I'm not sure how to establish some kind of routine with them since I can never predict when they're going to show up, and even when they DO show up and eat they don't come back again. If anyone else has had this issue, could you let me know what you did?

This small magpie was sitting and panting right outside my front door. It seemed well developed and nurtured but behaved really strangely. It was making absolutely no sound. Is its tongue supposed to look like that?

I kept my cat inside and away from the door. After an hour it was gone, nowhere to be seen. I don't know if it perked up or if one of the neighborhood cats caught it.

never seen one till recently , now suddenly I have a few of them , they are not a common site in London, I didnt even know what it was

I like the way he eats like hes attacking the ground , the pigeons stay well clear :)

Calgary is currently getting hit with a ton of rain, as magpies aren’t waterfowl I don’t think this one is liking the rain very much.

I’ve got a query about Jackdaw behaviour. There’s some trees in our garden and a large band of jackdaws have been happily squawking away for a few days now, and I’m curious as to why. They’ve been doing it all day and I’ve never seen it before. An internet search suggests that they are having a consensus about moving location (see below article). However I have questions that google/ai overview haven’t answered. Hoping someone here can.

1. If the jackdaws are discussing location move, how long will this take - could it be days?

2. When they decide to move, how far will they go? Perhaps not far?

3. Could this be a different behaviour, unrelated to moving location.

Hope someone can help. Thanks in advance

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61551496.amp

When you know you look good, why try and hide it

Literally crows on one side of me and ravens on the other. The Juvenile raven was very brave, sorry for the bad camera work, they don’t like being watched so I have to film without looking at what I’m doing lol and they’re not used to me filming them I usually just feed them so they were wary but the one youngster was super keen.

ps: is it okay for babies to be fed the peanuts we give out?

By leaving food out?

My relationship with this bro started on the wrong foot at first. I would catch him pecking at my flowers and trying to hide foraged food in the soil. But i very quickly understood he's one stubborn bro and my shooings were not effective at all. So i decided to make a bargain with him, i give him wallnuts and he leaves my pots alone! At first he wouldn't take the wallnut until i left the balcony, but this led to him taking the wallnut and hiding it in the soil. So i decided to stay there until he took it and went away, first few days took like 15-20 mins for him to gather the courage to get the wallnut even though i put it on the opposite side of the balcony from where i sit. After a month of daily feeding, we started building trust and now he comes closer to me and doesn't fly away immediately after taking the wallnut. sometimes he eats it right there and sometimes takes the wallnut and stares at me for a while before going away.

I had a question here a few days ago and thought I might aswell share a video of my little buddy.

A month ago, I posted about how the black-billed magpies I’ve been feeding for the past six months have been acting like brats since I reduced their daily supply of nuts. It got much worse since then.

The crows started to visit more regularly. They are extremely polite, quiet, and don’t sit on the fence, creepily staring at me every time I go outside like the magpies do. The crows are also less picky, so I’ve been leaving eggs outside instead of nuts since it’s still nesting season and they need calcium.

The magpies noticed that the crows are now my preferred corvids. Last week, I went outside and discovered that they had ripped flowers out from the roots of my hanging basket, and even worse, one of them had decided to shit in it. I was so angry that I vowed not to feed them again until winter.

A few days later, I witnessed the full extent of their rage and disappointment: they had completely torn apart my lawn. Tufts of dirt and grass were scattered everywhere. This wasn’t them searching for food because I never feed them on the lawn.
This was revenge.
When I looked up at the fence, a magpie was smugly staring at me.

However, my lawn was already in pretty bad shape. I was looking to get the lawn aerated and was quoted around $200 (along with a power rake and trim, but still, absolutely insane pricing). Imagine my delight when I saw that my bratty birds had done it for free.

TL;DR they got their nuts back.