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None of this applies to crows. They're very happy to eat our rotting corpses and day old vomit. So feeding them can be an adventure if you try hard enough.

sva_ 2y ago
I tried that once. I fed a bunch of crows some walnuts while sitting by a river, and it was fine. The next day I came back, I fed crows at the same spot, and soon a murder of other crows came and attacked the crows I just fed. Not even just lightly nabbing them, but hacking down on them continuously until I broke up the fight. Didn't try feeding any since then.
- lagniappe 2y ago
  You're supposed to use McDonalds fries, and some light rock-throwing toward the opposing faction. Traditionally this is how murder-crows have been trained since at least 2013. Total process is a few weeks. Source: https://imgur.com/f50IZJS https://imgur.com/f50IZJS
  - sdwr 2y ago
    The barriers are dissolving! 4chan by way of reddit on HN Age of Aquarius, or barbarians at the gate? Shrug emoji
  - flawn 2y ago
    wholesome
  - wdh505 2y ago
    Omg, what did I just read? That was some good greentext
  - supriyo-biswas 2y ago
    Crows are social animals, and it would be very strange for the two factions to not intermingle (let alone just observe) and know what was really going on. Also they are opportunistic animals, and won’t give up the chance to get a treat even if they consider you an enemy; where I live the crows consider me a threat and caw loudly and angrily peck at plants and the windows if they see me, but will take any food that I leave outside. The crow war is a good story, if only a bit suspect.
- HenryBemis 2y ago
  Probably territorial disputes. I bought a feeder and I'm hanging it right outside/below my balcony (so birds can eat without pooping on my balcony). I buy hulled sunflower seeds, 10kg, every month just for the feeder. My typical 'customers' are House Sparrows that I try to keep alive through the winter. The (three) crows on my block are cool with them, and let them live around here. When pigeons fly in though, or once we had some ducks resting and trying to feed on my feeder, OH BOY, the crows no-like-big-birds. Sidenote: because of the weird position of my feeder, only one bird can eat at-a-time. House Sparrows being smart and loving do the following.. one goes to my feeder and shoves/throws down seeds, so he/she eats straight from the feeder, and a bunch of others eat the seeds falling on the sidewalk.
- gerdesj 2y ago
  Whomever came up with that nonsense about cockroaches inheriting the smoking remnants of the earth we leave behind have no idea. "If its a rook its a crow ..." Crow are mostly singletons, rooks are the social largish, black corvid. By social, I mean bird form of Peaky Blinders. In the park opposite my house there are many large, mature trees. Several of them are home to rival gangs of rooks. There are also many magpies and some jays and some crows. The magpies seem to spontaneously form mobs but mostly couple up and do small scales raids on smaller birds if they run out of other food or for the hell of it. Jays tend to be more circumspect and I rarely spot them being nasty. I suspect they are more like assassins. Corvids are extraordinary birds. They don't have the weaponry of hawks, so seemed to have developed intelligence and a really strong stomach instead. Mind you the seagull (herring gull) is an even larger "crow" with amphibious capabilities. I lived in Plymouth (Devon) for some years and worked on the Barbican, so dealt with a lot of seagulls. I never got crapped on and never had a burger or chips stolen from me. Wind forwards a fair few years. I'm doing an IT related job and am in Bristol Parkway railway station, on platform munching sandwiches during a lunch break. A gull swoops in from behind me and grabs a sarnie from my hand. The skill and precision of the steal was remarkable. I've also seen them glide in, slow up and briefly hover over a victim, drop down and grab with their beak and then fly vertically upwards and escape. You have to admire the sheer strength of these birds. They are largely designed for soaring and gliding. Look at the aspect ratio of their wings - they are long and quite thin - more like a glider than a fighter. I suppose their association with the sea and fishing has encouraged evolving strength. Pulling a fish out of the sea is hard work. They can furl those gliding wings for bursts of speed and they have the sheer strength to do VTOL. Unlike a hawk, they do not have talons, nor a hooked beak to grab, rip and tear. Their beak instead is designed to cut things in half or cut bits out. I could, but won't, witter on about the peregrine falcon. They are quite fast and successful. Pigeons (rock doves) will probably have the final say after Armageddon and will clean up any corvid, and seagull waste. Including those that found cockroaches unpalatable.
  - m463 2y ago
    bloom county: opus and the cockroach: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/16/30/d1/1630d15d0a94cbe4b81e4267097f4f21.gif https://i.pinimg.com/originals/16/30/d1/1630d15d0a94cbe4b81e...
- Vicinity9635 2y ago
  Turf wars. We just call it war when humans do it. Or genocide.
  - pests 2y ago
    Genocide is the complete elimination ion of another group... Might be a little far.
    - Vicinity9635 2y ago
      [dead]
AnotherGoodName 2y ago
Also crows eat other bird eggs. They definitely do cause ecological problems if fed. https://thecottonwoodpost.net/2022/05/02/the-maddening-truth-feeding-crows-and-jays-harms-other-birds/ https://thecottonwoodpost.net/2022/05/02/the-maddening-truth...
banish-m4 2y ago
Come to Austin. We have loud, annoying, fearless, and rude grackles who will leap up on your outdoor table and fight you for your lunch. They're no crows, to be sure. Crows are smarter. I saw a crow chowing down with its buddies after it ninja'ed inside a mechanic's shop to steal their sunflower seeds from atop their toolbox. That it both identified a package containing food it liked and knew when humans were watching, formulated a plan, and executed it successfully demonstrated significant intelligence. Reportedly, one can befriend crows as well as crows supposedly hold grudges.

sva_ 2y ago

I tried that once. I fed a bunch of crows some walnuts while sitting by a river, and it was fine. The next day I came back, I fed crows at the same spot, and soon a murder of other crows came and attacked the crows I just fed. Not even just lightly nabbing them, but hacking down on them continuously until I broke up the fight. Didn't try feeding any since then.

lagniappe 2y ago
You're supposed to use McDonalds fries, and some light rock-throwing toward the opposing faction. Traditionally this is how murder-crows have been trained since at least 2013. Total process is a few weeks. Source: https://imgur.com/f50IZJS https://imgur.com/f50IZJS
- sdwr 2y ago
  The barriers are dissolving! 4chan by way of reddit on HN Age of Aquarius, or barbarians at the gate? Shrug emoji
- flawn 2y ago
  wholesome
- wdh505 2y ago
  Omg, what did I just read? That was some good greentext
- supriyo-biswas 2y ago
  Crows are social animals, and it would be very strange for the two factions to not intermingle (let alone just observe) and know what was really going on. Also they are opportunistic animals, and won’t give up the chance to get a treat even if they consider you an enemy; where I live the crows consider me a threat and caw loudly and angrily peck at plants and the windows if they see me, but will take any food that I leave outside. The crow war is a good story, if only a bit suspect.
HenryBemis 2y ago
Probably territorial disputes. I bought a feeder and I'm hanging it right outside/below my balcony (so birds can eat without pooping on my balcony). I buy hulled sunflower seeds, 10kg, every month just for the feeder. My typical 'customers' are House Sparrows that I try to keep alive through the winter. The (three) crows on my block are cool with them, and let them live around here. When pigeons fly in though, or once we had some ducks resting and trying to feed on my feeder, OH BOY, the crows no-like-big-birds. Sidenote: because of the weird position of my feeder, only one bird can eat at-a-time. House Sparrows being smart and loving do the following.. one goes to my feeder and shoves/throws down seeds, so he/she eats straight from the feeder, and a bunch of others eat the seeds falling on the sidewalk.
gerdesj 2y ago
Whomever came up with that nonsense about cockroaches inheriting the smoking remnants of the earth we leave behind have no idea. "If its a rook its a crow ..." Crow are mostly singletons, rooks are the social largish, black corvid. By social, I mean bird form of Peaky Blinders. In the park opposite my house there are many large, mature trees. Several of them are home to rival gangs of rooks. There are also many magpies and some jays and some crows. The magpies seem to spontaneously form mobs but mostly couple up and do small scales raids on smaller birds if they run out of other food or for the hell of it. Jays tend to be more circumspect and I rarely spot them being nasty. I suspect they are more like assassins. Corvids are extraordinary birds. They don't have the weaponry of hawks, so seemed to have developed intelligence and a really strong stomach instead. Mind you the seagull (herring gull) is an even larger "crow" with amphibious capabilities. I lived in Plymouth (Devon) for some years and worked on the Barbican, so dealt with a lot of seagulls. I never got crapped on and never had a burger or chips stolen from me. Wind forwards a fair few years. I'm doing an IT related job and am in Bristol Parkway railway station, on platform munching sandwiches during a lunch break. A gull swoops in from behind me and grabs a sarnie from my hand. The skill and precision of the steal was remarkable. I've also seen them glide in, slow up and briefly hover over a victim, drop down and grab with their beak and then fly vertically upwards and escape. You have to admire the sheer strength of these birds. They are largely designed for soaring and gliding. Look at the aspect ratio of their wings - they are long and quite thin - more like a glider than a fighter. I suppose their association with the sea and fishing has encouraged evolving strength. Pulling a fish out of the sea is hard work. They can furl those gliding wings for bursts of speed and they have the sheer strength to do VTOL. Unlike a hawk, they do not have talons, nor a hooked beak to grab, rip and tear. Their beak instead is designed to cut things in half or cut bits out. I could, but won't, witter on about the peregrine falcon. They are quite fast and successful. Pigeons (rock doves) will probably have the final say after Armageddon and will clean up any corvid, and seagull waste. Including those that found cockroaches unpalatable.
- m463 2y ago
  bloom county: opus and the cockroach: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/16/30/d1/1630d15d0a94cbe4b81e4267097f4f21.gif https://i.pinimg.com/originals/16/30/d1/1630d15d0a94cbe4b81e...
Vicinity9635 2y ago
Turf wars. We just call it war when humans do it. Or genocide.
- pests 2y ago
  Genocide is the complete elimination ion of another group... Might be a little far.
  - Vicinity9635 2y ago
    [dead]

AnotherGoodName 2y ago

Also crows eat other bird eggs. They definitely do cause ecological problems if fed. https://thecottonwoodpost.net/2022/05/02/the-maddening-truth-feeding-crows-and-jays-harms-other-birds/ https://thecottonwoodpost.net/2022/05/02/the-maddening-truth...

banish-m4 2y ago

Come to Austin. We have loud, annoying, fearless, and rude grackles who will leap up on your outdoor table and fight you for your lunch. They're no crows, to be sure. Crows are smarter. I saw a crow chowing down with its buddies after it ninja'ed inside a mechanic's shop to steal their sunflower seeds from atop their toolbox. That it both identified a package containing food it liked and knew when humans were watching, formulated a plan, and executed it successfully demonstrated significant intelligence. Reportedly, one can befriend crows as well as crows supposedly hold grudges.