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Corvidae are smart as hell. I think they're one of the most clever animals around. I'm not sure when or why I started, but I have fed (American) crows for years

Corvidae are smart as hell. I think they're one of the most clever animals around. I'm not sure when or why I started, but I have fed (American) crows for years wherever I live. At my current place, I have been feeding a particular crow (and his mother) as long as he's been alive. I specifically remember his mother setting up shop in the palm tree across the street when she had this particular crow. Anyway, he follows me when I leave the house. This crow literally follows me to the grocery store, or when I go for my run, or to the convenience store. His mother doesn't, though. I have tried to take him in by leaving my lanai door open, but that is just one barrier the crows around here never seem to overcome. I've let other crows into my house before, but the crows in this neighborhood clearly think it is a deadly proposition. I don't know how weird any of this is, but it's just something I've always done.

gnulinux 8y ago
My grandma feeds wild (hooded) crows and seagulls. She claims to know all of them by name, she even claims they have preferred food (like bread, sausage etc...) and she seems to have a very strong emotional connection with them. Whenever we go to any sort of trip that makes her away from home for a few days, she invariably starts talking about her crows and seagulls, complaining she wasn't able to feed them.
xaedes 8y ago
What kind of food do they like? I also want to do that. I look at and whistle with the birds in my town for quite a while, but I am not sure what would be good food to carry around for them.
- fapjacks 8y ago
  Crows go apeshit for plain peanuts and granola bars that I've kinda crushed up or broken into pieces which seem reasonably-sized for them to eat. Usually that means I break a peanut of "average" size into four pieces. Once along that natural split, and then each piece once more. Other birds really like that stuff, too, and whatever the crows don't eat, the smaller ones do. There's always nothing left, perhaps obviously.

gnulinux 8y ago

My grandma feeds wild (hooded) crows and seagulls. She claims to know all of them by name, she even claims they have preferred food (like bread, sausage etc...) and she seems to have a very strong emotional connection with them. Whenever we go to any sort of trip that makes her away from home for a few days, she invariably starts talking about her crows and seagulls, complaining she wasn't able to feed them.

xaedes 8y ago

What kind of food do they like? I also want to do that. I look at and whistle with the birds in my town for quite a while, but I am not sure what would be good food to carry around for them.

fapjacks 8y ago
Crows go apeshit for plain peanuts and granola bars that I've kinda crushed up or broken into pieces which seem reasonably-sized for them to eat. Usually that means I break a peanut of "average" size into four pieces. Once along that natural split, and then each piece once more. Other birds really like that stuff, too, and whatever the crows don't eat, the smaller ones do. There's always nothing left, perhaps obviously.