Crows - Some fun and interesting tidbits 

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Back in the mid 60s ,A friend of mines uncle used to plow his fields with a horse and plow rig, the crows would follow behind him and eat the various bugs that were unearthed by the plow. He would guide the horse by making clicking type noises from his mouth, one time when he went inside to relieve himself and stopped at the sink to wash his hands, looking out the window above the sink, he noticed the horse was moving not standing and waiting for him, there was one of the crows, standing on the plow handle mimicking the clicking noises he would make to get the horse moving 😂

Fledgling crows begging for food when they are old enough to rely on themselves reminds me of college.

That crow knocking fruit off so it attracts bugs is awesome.

Ravens sound like crows that have been smoking for 30 years. Love your videos!

My children had a book that described these four crows that the family had as pets. After I learned about Crow's personalities and their intelligence, I decided to say hello to the crows at my job one morning. I would go to a Priest's house to take care of him. For some reason, There was a huge group of crows that lived on that road and they would congregate in the tall pine trees of his yard. I got out of the car and looked up at all the crows and I said good morning to them, and hello, and I sang to them a little bit. They all answered me and focused their attention on me. I went into the house and was working inside the house. The whole group of crows or part of the group came into the backyard and up near the back door which was a breezeway door. They called to me. So, I threw a bunch of cracker crumbs and bread crumbs out on the lawn for them. The Priest told me to not do that anymore as he didn't want them all in his yard or to expect me to do this everyday for them. So I didn't do it again. But, I really enjoyed interacting with the crows and I was delighted at how friendly they were to me.

That was a great closing wherein you said crows remember the faces of people who have done them wrong as well as the faces who are kind to them and give them treats. I know this to be true with blue jays as well (another bird that gets a bad rap from humans that do not really know them at all). The eight blue jays in the park near to where I live absolutely like me. I've been feeding them daily through this harsh northeastern winter and they call to me as soon as they see me, one tips my hat with his wing, then sits on the closest branch to my shoulder, murmurs very soft talk while bobbing near my shoulder and I give him (and all of them) almonds (excellent winter food). I tell them they are beautiful and smart birds (I get some strange looks from people but I ignore most people anyway) and they twist their heads, fly closer down the tree to me and stare at me. This can go on for almost an hour until some noisy kids or people blabbing on cell phones get too close. Then the blue jays fly away. But they come back the next day as soon as they see me. I just love them and they know it.

hi lesley your voice is so well suited for these documentaries. always a great view and listen. go crow's. peace, rich

My favorite bird!! I LOVE crows!! 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

This was great. Thanks. I've been trying to become more aware of crows. Found a black feather that at another time wouldn't of been as meaningful.

Your true stories make me feel calm, knowing that the crow is a savior.🙋‍♀️❤

Loved the video and thanks for making and sharing. I lived on the Oregon coast for quite a while and had my share of "crow buddies." I've always liked crows because I recognized their curiosity and intelligence early on. This was in the city (Albuquerque) and I always kept them in the back of my mind. Maybe it's because I'm half Chupik Eskimo, but I have alwas felt a bond with all non-human creatures; dogs and cats especially, but also crows, ravens and snakes. In Oregon, my first "crow buddies" were a pair with a "yung-un" that started watching me durring my lunch at the lumber yard. It was obvious they knew I had something they might like. They grew bolder in the following days and I started feeding them bits of my lunch. It was pretty cool. They started to wait for me at the door that let out to the employee parking lot and precede me to my car where I ate. At this place of employment, they eventually hired a kid of about 19. This kid would eventually hurt a crow and show me how strong their web of communication was. On a Friday afternoon in late summer, this brash young kid took it into his head that he ought to try and bean one of the crows with a rock. I told him to quit being an ass, but he was young enough to know everything and carried on. He ended up pegging one hard in the wing, breaking the bone. I was furious and heart-broken. The poor thing was going to die. The other crows in the area, upon hearing the injured cries of this crow started in with cries that brought other crows who joined in. Their cries brought more... and more... and more! Pretty soon - 3 minutes at most - most of the trees and power lines were covered with crows causing a cacophony that was unreal and a bit frightening! I asked the kid if he was proud of what he'd done, and he replied, "No, man. This is just fucked up." I agreed and told him to remember how one stone can cause such a clatter and that even crows talk to each other. He was pretty shaken by that knowledge, I can tell you. At my next place of employment, I met two more. They were a cool couple and we wiled away my lunches amiably enough. They ate and squirreled away what the didn't eat immediately in the embankment of the highway grasses. I never quite got one to eat out of my had, but eventually got one to perch on the hood of my car and wait for a treat. Such interesting creatures! I just love their curiosity. Anyway I'm back in Albuquerque and it's harder to latch on to a crow in the city. Too many other offers of meals and, I'm sure, a wariness of humans who generally don't appreciate their curiosity and wiles. I still hope to earn the trust of one of these wondrous creatures in this land of distrust. I hope I'm worthy of their curiosity. ;-)

Lovely little documentary Leslie! 🙂 Appreciate the kind of facts and supporting clips shared. Keep it up !

Love this docu! Crows are fantastic!

Lesley, I deeply appreciate your vids & channel! You love birds & it shows!

Great mini documentary! I especially enjoyed learning about their family dynamics.

Love them crows! So smart and funny 😁 👍

Great video! I love crows and have have a surprisingly deeo affinity to them. So watching this really made me happy to watch :) Crows and Ravens. They're my favourites.

A bunch of crows taunted and surrounded a hawk in my backyard who seemed to be after my toy dogs. They trapped the hawk in the lower denser branches of a tree and when it made its escape they flew all around the hawk escorting it away from my backyard ad dogs. Remarkable birds!

i love crows. how they mess with other animals that try to go after them

I love crows! ❤ Thanks for creating this interesting and lovely video. The dogs enjoyed watching and listening to the crows with me. They send their thanks as well! 😁

Love my crows near me... I give food now and then( fruit and nuts)... do not make them depend on me... a day off I see it... feed them now and again to give then a day off from....

What an excellent short on crows, Lesley :) Insightful and well presented. I live in Utica, NY and fortunately for me, we have a very large population and I can never see enough of these fascinating creatures. They are vastly underrated and make an interesting study. Thanks for your documentary-Caw Caw!

Had a crow come close to me one afternoon wen I was out bird watching I threw it a pice of food and it allowed me to pet it. ( the little bugger followed me all day )

Great video! I love how the crows attack the eagle. They are so brave and smart. And you've done such wonderful pictures!

I’m so grateful I found your channel 😍 thank you for everything you do ♥️

Crows are the best they have a strong sence of compassion and humor they love a challenge and when disaplin is needed they use it sparingly

Just finished bing watching all your Crow videos 🖤🖤🖤 crows are by far one of the coolest birds we have.

There are a number of crows near my city's main library. As soon as I come near, they know it, and as soon as I put food on the ground, they call their family and friends, about 15-20 all told. I also know a crow family of 3 which I believe consists of parents and offspring. I always keep a few peanuts for them.

Lesleythebirdnerd: Thanks for the super video work with you documentary. Iv'e been watching and studying family's of crows around my home for 30 years and never tire of it. Your observations are absolutely accurate. These birds are very intelligent and exhibit complex behavior and problem solving skills. You present them as the wonderful creatures they are.

I love watching crows

I live in Nova Scotia Canada 🍁, there's a murder of crows here containing at least 150 members, they fly at night in Bridgewater using the lights of town to see, usually you hear them first, it's quite a sight to behold.

Thank you for this clip as I've been on a bird leaning curve though have loved all our feathered friends all my life. Feeding birds has opened up a whole new world to me and I appreciate your insights and education.

These videos are done very well . Thanks for sharing your compassion and expertise!

Beautiful crow video!

Nice video, lots of information. There is one thats missing, it is the fact that crows gather up in incredible large group in winter time to go rest at night. I have seen more than 3000 in Cornwall,ontario, and recently, for more than an hour, in Watertown,NY groups after groups flocking to the same resting area, probably 5000 or even more.

Love your videos. Accidently ran across your channel... now I'm hooked on birds again.

Crows are so fascinating... I got to work with one named DaVinci when I volunteered at a wildlife rehab center. He was non releasable and had become an ambassador for his species...he loved people and showing off, he was so intelligent and could do so many incredible things. Thanks for the work you do in helping to educate people about our feathered friends. On a personal note I hope you are doing alright and keeping your spirits up, I remember a recent post regarding some challenges you were facing and just wanted to say... many people who follow your channel are wishing you well. 💖

I like these birds now. Thanks for the vid.

He’s dropping the apples to make his cider...yip ....they got smarts

Thank you so much - I love crow so mych and I found this video as a beginning for me being learning more about them .

“What’s up with those crows” lol

Great video! I love crows. They are fascinating birds.

I’ve a group of crows which live in my chimney here in north west England. I feed them every morning, and have seen many new borns over the years. I’m sat watching this, whilst I listen to my crows, squawking 😂😂 I love them, they’re great! No lie, I feed them before I go to work, and as soon as I pull up in my car, when I’m back, they squawk at each other, as if to say she’s back! So I usually give them a bit more food! 😂😂

Wonderful video of one of my favorite birds. They are so smart and just plain old beautiful. Love it, bravo! (✿◠‿◠)

Thanks for your knowledge of the beautiful birds, and dashing crows ...

Great video! I love crows, that had some great footage of them, especially the calls :D

Great upload Lesley! Wonderfully done. :))

Neat. Thanks for sharing!

Great little documentary. Someday I would like to know the answer to this mystery: how do crows recognize each other and tell each other apart? They have to be able to do that to live in family groups as they do, but I sure don't know how because they sure look alike to me.

Great documentary, thanks Lesley!

I have one that's been visiting my small city yard bird bath for a drink, the last few days. I got so used to the little birds we have that when the Crow showed up I was in awe of it's size and beauty. I guess it'll move on from it's new drinking station, but it's fun while it lasts. Thanks for the video!

Thanks for this short doc about the amazing crow. I have 5 in my yard and enjoy them the most out of all the birds. They need a larger fan club!

Nice video thank you for sharing, had Crows and doves and sparrows leave gifts where I left treats for them. 🕊️🦋🍁🦅 Birds of a feather we rock together 💯

Lesley, thank you for this and your other wonderfully informative posts. I'm just starting to feed and observe crows in my yard. The calls in the video are definitely going to be helpful to me in hopefully understanding them to some extent. The other info is extremely helpful also. I really love the crows and want to learn as much as possible about them. I also hope to be fortunate enough to have some sort of relationship with them. I think they're starting to trust me somewhat. They recognize me now and actually look me in the eye. I know crows do this kind of thing, but it's amazing to experience it personally. I used to do a lot of dog rescue and am used to being around smart animals, but these crows are full of surprises. I'm keeping a journal. Very excited about this experience. So thanks again for your invaluable help.

Extremely interesting. Thanks for the great video.

a Crow is clever ........i love it !!!

That was fun and interesting!

Thanks for sharing this document

Thanks for uploading the video very informative

Jesus thats a beautiful crow.

Lesley - I loved this video - I see no imperfections, only beauty and interactions of birds, their families, etc. It helps those of us that do not get a chance to see up close that which you can. - Stephanie P.S. - The noise the crow makes at around 7:38 reminds me of the sound a female Blue Jay makes (I forgot what you called it and it almost sounds like a type of frog).

Hi Lesley, thanks for the video. I enjoyed it very much. I live in Vancouver BC, the back of my house faces a forest. Over the last few years Ive come to know the crows who live here. You could say, we both adopted each other. I love spending time watching them as they do we me too. Im also open to learn more about them. Much thanks G

They're so cute and super smart.

Awesome! Great footage!

Excellent...!! Really enjoyed this wonderful video. Big thanks for sharing.

This is great video thank you. I have named my start up The Faithful Crow Co. because I like their attributes.

omg! I love it! the FRAAAG in the BAAAG

very nice video. thanks!

Thanks Lesley, lovely video narrated with a sense of humour. When I go for a walk I have to take peanuts with me. 3 sets of crows on my route can recognise me from a distance of 200 + yards and fly down close for their treats. If only one comes, they always call out 3 times for the others to come. Guess that's English crow for food's ready

I've always admired them. I have one tattooed on my shoulder watching my back. I can say crow in 4 languages.

Beautiful, thank you again.

Excellent Video...

That was great. Thanks for sharing. I have some Crow youngsters that hang out in my backyard, esp around 5pm. We had a snake event yesterday and once my heart rate went down, I noticed there were ma y gathered in the tree just above me, watching and perhaps cheering me on in getting the snakes to move along.

I have two bird nests in my yard a bushtit nest (Babies just hatched), and a crow nest I have learned to tell them apart the male always hangs out on the power line and the female has a really cool white feathers under her tail. And she usally is in the nest or in the pine tree.They are fun to watch

A big family reunion! LOL. That's so funny. :) I had no idea crows made so many different sounds! Amazing!

Oh my god they are so cute.

Super interesting!

I love watching crows chase hawks, reminds of WW2 fighters attacking a B-17 lol

I use to leave birdseed, dry cat food, table scraps on my driveway around 530pm everyday and if i didnt feed them the crows would fuss until i left some food out.

One summer morning, as the sun was rising, a group of crows made a tremendous amount of noise in the trees in our yard. My wife got up and looked out the window to see a bear in our yard. We think the crows were harassing the bear. We’ve had many bears in our yard over the years but never harassed by crows. I wonder if that particular bear was one that the crows didn’t like.

I love how cute crows are but also am kind of afraid. When I think of them, the term "The Mafia of the birds" comes to my mind

I remember the first time i saw a Raven, in the uplands above Pott Shrigley, Cheshire. It was brilliant, but not as good as when i went looking for Choughs, (those birds of the brilliant, downcurved blood-red bill and legs that are on tthe shire crest of Cornwall, but are, as everywhere, sadly scarce) on the island of Anglesey, or Ynys Mon as it is in Welsh. On the way to the lighthouse (no Virginia Woolf pun) where they are seen ( you have to travel to secluded coastal places to see them) i scared two in a field and this time as they flew off i nearly wet myself/ crashed the car into a looming hedgerow. Best corvid ever. Well worth while, though that looming hedge is irksome in many nightmares since.

They can also display frustration, smug self-satisfaction and envy. Of all animals, I find them easiest to anthropomorphize. I find fish and lizards to be the hardest.

Thanks

this was very well made with a nice overview and some great footage. I really have a thing for crows. I've owned a few birds before but crows seem to have way more personality than the ones I had. makes me want to go out and try to befriend one in my area.

Interesting intro documentary about Crows. I really enjoy it. I'm a little interested in birds because i have a lot of them in my neighborhood and see or hear them everyday.

this was great

i hope u have a great carrier on documentaries. "even crow parents have children that stcik around for a while" hahaha amazing. a special segment for crow language ! genious work what was the bigger bird at 2:98 ? keep up the good work. documentary fans need u.

I love them, we have an injured young crow . Wildlife place was going to put him down because his wing is fractured. The vet said its illegal to keep them but people do and he may never fly again so hes going to be a great pet. I said theyre not putting him down and we'll look after him. Best thing ive done, hes happy in his avery and very healthy now. He calls me over and we talk , theyre incredibly intelligent and very beautiful birds . We'd be lost without him around, he picks on the dogs and the cat.

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To put it simply, Crows are so damned cool......

where i live theres a lot of smaller song birds like bluejays and woodpeckers. not only do the crows here caw and croak, they also chirp and trill, and use different combinations of them.

I used to have a dog that loved to play with the crows. We would tell the dog to "get the chickens" and he'd good naturedly run outside and gallop around hopping at the sky chickens barking playfully while the crows would swoop and dive at him. It seemed like they all loved this amazingly fun game that they all acted like was the most fun they'd ever had in their lives. We would just shake our heads like they were the dopiest animals alive because at that moment, they kinda were. God I loved those animals.

Something really interesting just happened a few minutes ago. I have 5 new grackles, they're Zorro's kids, and they've been hanging out in my palm tree. Zorro was the big male who sang me the jazz riff last year that I used in a song I wrote. His kids have talen a liking to the palm tree, and I give them fruit and nuts as well as water every day. This morning, Miles was trying to get a piece of apple that was wedged under the water pan. He found a small stick and used it to dislodge the piece of apple. This was very much like Betty the crow in New Caledonia on the RU-vid video. Since grackles are corvids, and related to crows, this is not a huge surprise, but it was awesome to witness such a thing in my own front yard. Miles is growing like a weed, he's very bold and brave. I think he's going to be an alpha, and possibly a Chief. I named him after Miles Davis, and I hope he turns out to be a great musician just like his Dad, Zorro. The fun never ends with these critters, does it? Love and respect Hats off and CHEERS!!!

Pretty rough for the frog understatement of the century, funny though, love you channel

Very cool video. Crows are one of my favorite birds. This video was very informative.

I love crows. S'more info I understand as "crow facts" *Crows are born with blue eyes *Crows (hopefully) can live up to 20 yrs. Probably not more than 15 out in the wild. *Permanent nesters wherever there at. Along with their cousins (Ravens) are the smartest birds

I give them peanuts and they go crazy !

crows are great. I have seen juveniles rise from the nest and mob a hawk.