A Magpie Negotiating With A Blue Jay 

My bluejays take peanuts and then hide them under fallen leaves 😂😂 idk if they’re selective in order, but they definitely take all of the peanuts

Yes! My blue jays in my backyard do this! Love leaving peanuts out for those guys

So true! I'll throw my blue jays a couple of handfuls of peanuts every morning. I'll sit then figure out which peanuts they want to take with them. They're pretty funny.

during the spring this year this blue jay couple would always come and get peanuts and both would fly away with 2 almost each time.

I've noticed magpies do this too.

Unlike Mordecai

​@@MetalBansheeXMordecai is pretty smart though?

They're not classified as subspecies of a single crow species per se, but jays, magpies, and crows are all species (actually multiple species spanning several different genera) of one corvid family.

Yeah, that's what I meant.@@dsrguru

"Here's the thing." 😅

I didn't know that so thank you for sharing.

@@Gazing-09 Same family as Crows and Ravens, the smartest birbs!

​@@anonymerspeckbauch9851no?

Corvidae comprise of Crows, Ravens, Jackdaws, Magpies and Jays. A very diverse group of intelligent birds.

@@anonymerspeckbauch9851with an r. Corvid

Rigby: sigh fine

And then they accidentally angered the magpie god or something

Haha I miss that show. Back in the day when Cartoon Network had the best!

I read it in his voice.

Muscle Man: You know who also negotiates with magpies? MY MOM!!

Good to hear about this, since my two African greys also just seem to "randomly" refuse some specific nuts due to surface texture.

​@@JoonasD6Clearly these are birds of high nobility that accept gifts of only the highest quality.

"What do you think of this one? Last year's harvest, solid texture...density's quite nice." "Won't touch it." "Really?" "Look at the dimpling on the shell. It's been scorched, ain't it? Damn nut's seen the inside of the sun." "Oh come on, I"m sure it's a perfectly fine nut." "Go on then. Cheers to ya." "Cheers and--PFFBTPluck me, that's vile!" "Tried to warn ya, mate. Inside of--" "--of the sun, you're right. Pluck me. Awful, awful stuff. Like licking the underside of a human's car." "Shoulda checked the dimpling, mate."

@@ApocGenesis 😂🥜

Yeah apparently this is their typical behavior. It's kind of adorable

That blu jay better do work or it's FIRED!

@@freakyninja3545 You know who else better do work or they’re fired?

​@@theonly6blake911MY MOM

gimme da gorbage

*than

How must the outside observers feel about us?

i think they do it bcuz they plan to eat the food but then get scared by a bigger threat and dont want the food, my domestic birds also sometimes do this either that or theyre just being assholes, which some of my birds also are

But the coots and mallards even do it amongst themselves. I feed them daily and they come to the edge the moment they see me. When I throw the nuts etc in the water, coots come running from all directions. And yet within 10 seconds, two coots turn on everyone else to keep them out of their territory. A huge chasing game ensues resulting in the other birds being attracted and them swooping in to eat the food instead 😂The swans are the biggest assholes. They go chasing the Canada geese every when they're 30 meters away. And don't even get me started on the seagulls...!@@whatTFisThis

they don't know when their next meal is coming, if at all. resource guarding makes perfect sense

did you read what I wrote? they don't guard sh*t. They just concentrate on driving away the other birds, and in turn don't eat the food themselves. when the coots are fighting, the mallards just do a circular turn and come for the food whilst the coot are fighting. And then a lone male mallard turns up which takes all of the attention of the other male mallard and they end up chasing one another. splash splash ensues which attracts the seagulls, and amongst the mayhem the seagulls devour everything.@@mistydayremainsofthejudgment

If they all decide we are "in the way" we're finished 😂😂😂

​@@Eddierathif they were bigger tho, i think they would organize lol. Because you can only do so much when you are so small, no matter how smart

"Crovids alone weak, Corvids together strong"

@@azuresiren5846 i fed some crows before while everyone was chasing them away for some reason. They gave me some gifts in return but they didnt stick around for long because of my cats. Hopefully they come back one day such interesting and smart animals

I get rooks, magpies, and jackdaws in my garden. The rooks and Jackdaws have first dibs on the warm meal worms (husband soaks them in hot water for 5 minutes before breakfast time). Then when the magpies turn up, it's time for the others to leave. It was 1 rook originally. Then he turned up one day with his woman. A week later, 4 showed up. Then 10. Then one day, came out and there were 16 rooks in the tree on the hill above my house, waiting. Must have about 30 corvids visit throughout the day now. Costing me a fortune in suet and mealworms. I also have bluetits, coaltits, blackbirds, robins, and the loudest, the tiny house sparrow. I go through 20 kilos of suet every 2 weeks. And about a kilo of mealworms every week.

the magpies in my attic do this every morning. my chickens sing back, but they're never in key

The chickens are the chads in this situation 😂

they smart nee gaas

Or do work for a gumball machine

MORDECAI STOP PICKING UP PEANUTS OR YOURE FIRED

Regular Show

@ligondesenuts769 yeah but even if regular show didn't exist. That bird is HIM

Same thing happened with me. Except the blue jay never came back, and the pot had a dozen sunflower sprouts during the winter.

Angy (⁠⇀⁠‸⁠↼⁠‶⁠)

What did the bird do then?

​@@qeytmyok2473 Probably found a new place to hide his food😊

this cartoon looks so real

​@@youtubepaidformydivorceCause it's from one of the newer seasons where they changed the art style a bit

​@@SHALLGLISTENBEFORETHETEMPLESOFnah, all they did was change the voice actor of rigby you can clearly hear his new voice actor in the background in this clip

magpie not a crow

@@bacoon6499 that's not a real type of bird

LMAO

You were right about one thing, Firestar-TV. The negotations were short.

Do they also make an occasional "wheeeeoow" sound? Situationally with a racoon?

That explains why they are so grumpy

This probably isn't true but I'm going to accept it for now and laugh anyway lol

It's kinda like how ppl instantly think of Phineas and Ferb on platypus vids

@@justmegumi34Or Nemo on clownfish vids

I do not know.

Uhh we don't fuqq wit magpies

Maybe the Feeder Is installed in a wall with no Places to climb for the squirrels

@@FVBirdCam "I'm not sure..." -- *[Reloads .22]*

​@@zanir2387Looking at where that is, squirrels can easily get there. I've seen them scale vertical walls

I was surprised neither of them chose violence.

Blue jays are just as bad if not worse.

magpies "bully" people to protect their nests and offspring, just like bears, geese also are known as bullies for thr same reason, but in reality they just wanna protect their bloodlines blue jays have been known to purposely scare other birds in order to hog food tho

They still one family

Blue Jays are corvids just like magpies, so it's probably just "real recognize real" kinda thing

Animals aren't language enabled (their brains can't understand negation, tenses or inquiry), so that's not what's going on.

@VineFinn, It is. Birds communicate with each other, within their own kind. Its scientifically believed, that bird talk ranges somewhere below whales & dolphins. But what do we really know? The subsonic elephant talk that reaches several miles. We have no clue. Magpies even sound a bit like dolphins.

@@VineFynn this has been proven false in countless field studies. they've found many species of animal which were capable of higher speech, the problems is the language barrier between man and beast. please do more research before talking about things you don't know. you can do better, i believe it

@@VineFynn Well, there are different sorts of communication other than the pseudo-explicit thing we humans try to do with sentence construction. Animals communicate, the actual self-referential complexity is just much lower. What reactions one shows when observed by an other is communication. We speak with our bodies, we're expressive like that, but sometimes the expressions aren't registered as intended or expected. Animals may not generally speaking utilize language, but this does not imply a lack of communication. That'd be a very anthropomorphic lens to view relationships that wouldn't even fully encompass what we humans get up to.

@@VineFynn Those are different types of communication. Also there are some species where this is still up in the air, like cetaceans.

I can imagine an early season episode of Regular Show where a "love guru"/pick-up artist magpie is trying to scam Mordecai.

You were right about one thing, master

@@vincentmichael7979 The negotations were short.

Same, looks like magpie had a peanut that that the bluejay wants than mag flies off with said peanut

So glad I'm not the only one confused. Cute video nonetheless tho

But they are reptiles ;)

​@@darkonyx6995 ur mom

​@@darkonyx6995they are not reptiles, they evolved from reptiles.

​@@evancombs5159and bees aren't insects, they evolved from insects

@@evancombs5159 Yes, they evolved from reptiles, which means that they ARE reptiles, since in taxonomy, you cannot outgrow your classification.

They save snacks for later lol

My magpies do that; dig a quick hole, stuff the best treat in there to hide it from the rest, and go back to the feeding area. Then when they leave, they dig up their hidden snack and fly off with it. I've seen them pulling the tails on the rats and chase off the squirrels, too. Like a game... See the rat, sneak up to it, yank!, fly up in amusement when the rat retaliates. Hilarious. One of them likes to shout down at my neighbour's cat if she makes the mistake of passing through. It yells from the bird bath, which is only about 3 feet high. Cat just slinks away in shame 😂

Fun factception

And without a raccoon BFF!

anything wrong with that? I can't imagine getting triggered just because people are sharing information. I can never understand why gen z kids find learning something cringe. like every time someone shares some cool facts, kids go "🤓". this generation is doomed

@@lifeisbeautiful015 sir this is a wendy's

Nice pfp

​​@@lifeisbeautiful015 It seems like you had a bad day

​@@lifeisbeautiful015🤓

Then why are you surprised?

@@n0odles86 Idk maybe it's because I never have witnessed both species of birds crossing paths😐🤷

A surprise to be sure but a welcome one