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How to Befriend Crows

by karmanyaahm on 12/26/22, 4:27 PM with 216 comments

by wpietri on 12/26/22, 4:56 PM
I can vouch for this approach. I lived in the territory of a couple of ravens (close relatives of crows; just as smart and twice as large) and it took me maybe 18 months to build a close relationship.
I started out just talking to them and throwing whole peanuts (roasted, unsalted) on the ground while I was doing it. They looked at me warily and did not come close. Later on, the peanuts would disappear, but I was never sure why. This period lasted months.
Eventually they would come down when I threw a peanut and approach it warily. If it was closer than 15 or 20 feet to me, I'd have to back away to give them enough room. Then I could throw another peanut near (but not at!) them and they'd walk over to get it.
After many more months of this (six, I'd guess) they were somewhat less wary of me and would hang out on our back fence sometimes. So we worked out a ritual. I would place a piece of food on the fence rail and back away; they'd hop over and get it. As he suggested, I would talk with them as I did it. I'm sure the words didn't matter, but I suspect the tone did, and it helped me focus on being soothing with voice, body language, and behavior.
Toward the end of my time there we got so that one of them would take high-value food, like a chicken bone with bits of meat left on it, straight out of my hand. That one, who we called George, would happily sit pretty close to me after eating. Out of arm's reach, of course; they were still a bit wary. But it would settle down and chill out. Truly a magical experience to just hang out with a big, smart bird like that. You looking at one another, both trying to figure out exactly what the other's deal is. And me, at least, knowing, that I'd never fully know.
by tasty_freeze on 12/26/22, 5:10 PM
My wife set up a bird feeder on our floor to ceiling glass windows in our living room -- it is a plexiglass module with suction cups. It was nice seeing the birds, but it was really entertaining watching the squirrels trying to get the food.
At first she tried to thwart the them, but in no time started recognizing the squirrels as individuals and noticing their personality and behavioral differences, and gave them names. After that, she stopped buying birdseed and began stocking the feeder with various nuts, and setting up some ramps and jumping obstacles, but not to any crazy level, just something to watch.
They recognized her as the person that fills the feeder with nuts. Once she tried hand feeding them it took only a couple weeks for the first brave one, then other squirrels didn't want to be left out and came up to her too. When the feeder goes empty, they'll stand on it and peer into the living room to see if she is around. Once they make eye contact, they hop down and run to the door to get fed.
My wife has some chronic health issues that mostly keep her housebound, except for doctor appointments. The squirrels have been a godsend -- even on her worst days, the squirrels make her smile and bring her joy at random times throughout the day.
by blippage on 12/26/22, 5:02 PM
I've been trying to befriend crows, but it's a slow process. When I go for a walk I usually take a rich tea biscuit with me. I put it on a post where a crow sometimes rests.
At first, it was more-or-less luck as to who and when a crow found it. But they began to catch on, and I'm pretty sure at least one was waiting for me. They were either on the post, or nearby. They fly off when you approach, of course. But they get the idea, and I know they're watching. I try to step back, but they need quite a large distance before they'll try to take the biscuit. Crows seem to know that humans are always up to something. The probably know that it's always plans within plans when it comes to those damn hairless apes. Is he really being generous, or is he running some inscrutable psyop?
The problem is that I haven't been consistent the last few days, so the crows lose interest.
A few days ago, mind, there was a crow sitting on the fence a few feet from the house. He flew off as I left the house, but he didn't seem particularly alarmed. He flew up to the top of a conifer quite a few yards away. But I knew he was watching. So I put a biscuit on a post and went for a walk. When I came back the biscuit was gone.
I guess what I like about crows is that they're really smart, so you're always left wondering as to how much they've cottoned on to and how much of it is just blind coincidence.
by joe__f on 12/26/22, 8:27 PM
I saved a blackbird's life once.
He was flying low across the road near my house and I saw him get hit by a car. So I went over to stand in the road and make sure the other cars coming drove around him, and I picked him up. One of his eyes was bloody where he'd been hit, and he was stunned and very distressed. I kind of just knew what to do, I held him in my hands by the side of the road for a few minutes which I think helped him calm down from the shock, and then he jumped down and sat for a bit when he was ready. I stayed and watched him for a while, but I could tell he'd had enough after a bit so I just left him.
I didn't see him fly away but I don't think his things were broken and he wasn't there the next morning. I guess he probably only had one working eye, I don't know how well birds manage with only one eye. Maybe he didn't make it but I hope he did, and I'm sure he would've been stuck shocked and panicking in the road until he got flattened without my help.
It was cool.
by PreInternet01 on 12/26/22, 5:53 PM
Just from my experience as a cyclist in Amsterdam, crows are amazingly intelligent. They actually participate in traffic, and know the difference between bicycles, motor vehicles and light rail (they will get out of the way just-in-time for the first two, and happily ignore the latter if they're outside the profile of the train set).
Pigeons, on the other hand, are the species that gave birth to the term 'bird brain'. They will happily sit in front of oncoming traffic forever, then take evasive action that is, like, the opposite of the optimal strategy...
by zestyping on 12/27/22, 3:32 AM
This was my pandemic hobby as well. After I consistently offered peanuts for a couple weeks, a crow couple would visit my balcony daily. In the springtime, they had a fledgling, and the whole family would come over, which was adorable. I trained them to open containers, and then put out puzzles of increasing difficulty for them.
Here's a video of one of them solving a couple of puzzles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x0PwKHvW10
And here's one of them taking a bath, just because it's so cute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AgAIh43OUs
It's a highly entertaining hobby, and I'm excited to continue putting out more interesting and complex objects for them to interact with!
by status200 on 12/26/22, 5:36 PM
I play bamboo flute and started playing the same song after feeding a crow that would come by my house, now I can just play the song and I will hear the crow respond from far away and then quickly fly over.
by residualmind on 12/27/22, 11:54 AM
I always loved the crows in the city and tried to be friendly to them, even sometimes feeding them - one time I had up to 30 crows patiently sitting around me, each one waiting for me to throw them their little piece of cheese which they would catch from the air. So I always was under the impression that my neighborhood crows tolerated or maybe even liked me.
This changed when I got a dog and moved to a different part of the city. The dog loves scaring away birds by running up to them, which the crows weren't happy about obviously. I tried to prevent the dog scaring crows (pigeons were O.K.) but she managed to scare them a few times anyways.
The crows didn't like this. Up to a point where whenever the dog and me encountered crows, the birds would warn and call others, swarming around us in a threatening, scary way.
But after months of me carefully keeping the dog from scaring the crows, pulling her back on the leash and letting her know the crows are our friends, the crows are friendly again. Even when we walk closely by crows, they don't mind. I'm 100% convinced the crows have learned that the dog is under my control and I keep her from charging at them.
No more warning caws and ganging up on us. Such amazing birds.
by newshorts on 12/26/22, 11:13 PM
I can’t confirm “befriending” crows, but I can confirm that you can make them your enemy.
A while back I had found what I thought was an injured bird. I captured it and brought it to a rehabilitation center for wild birds.
Turns out I had just capture a baby crow that hadn’t learned to fly yet, which explains why there were two other crows (parents) barking at me from trees as I tried to capture their chick.
After the rehab center verified I had not injured the chick during capture they let me return it where I found it.
Let me just say the parents were not happy with me when I let that chick out of the box they started divebombing me.
I had my own baby about a month later and as I was carrying my kid in from the parking lot I got dive Bombed by a crow.
I’ve always thought it was one of the parents retaliating.
From that point on every time they saw me they would start barking at me
by allenbrunson on 12/26/22, 4:46 PM
i kind of love the fact that posting fediverse links on hacker news is coming to be almost as common as posting twitter links. and i already read this, because one of the mastodon accounts i follow boosted this into my timeline.
all hail decentralized social media!
by jmann99999 on 12/26/22, 8:35 PM
Interacting with birds has been so wonderful for my family.
We live in the mountains in North America. We were tearing down and replacing our deck when the builders came upon a nest with multiple eggs (finch eggs). Thankfully the builders asked us what to do.
Our family decided to do some quick research, build a birdhouse within 10 meters of the previous nest, and put the eggs inside. We were able to watch as the mother bird found her eggs and cared for them through their hatching.
Years later, so many of them come back every Spring. It makes us smile and wonder what would have happened if we wouldn't have moved those eggs a decade ago. I'd like to attribute how friendly the birds seem to be to some sort of anthropomorphism, but that is probably not the case.
Regardless, even the "most basic" birds are wonderful.
by cc101 on 12/26/22, 5:59 PM
Steller Jays are also approachable. I'm a camp host. One started aggressively seeking food from campers. I took a close look at it and saw the one of the recent forest fires had damaged its feathers. It was desperate for food. I respected that bird. It did what it had to do to survive. I started feeding it. Next year when I returned to the campground, it showed up within an hour calling for food, and its feathers had been replaced.
by visitect on 12/26/22, 7:53 PM
My wife and I have successfully befriended the crows that inhabit my neighborhood. When we first moved into our home a few years ago, I would leave various nuts - and sometimes bits of unfinished bacon - on the back fence when I would see them perched on the neighbor's (tall) home. I would make a clicking noise with my tongue and call out to them in a friendly voice. Then I would retreat to the house and watch from the windows. It didn't take very long at all for them to learn this routine. After a few weeks, as soon as I would "click" one would swoop down from the high perch and land on a nearby post and wait for me to leave the treats. Another would keep watch.
Now it feels like we are old friends. If they happen to be around when we pop out of the house, one will vocalize and come near. Others show up soon after. My wife chats with them and leaves various snacks. They really love peanut butter sandwiches! I kid my wife about how much she spoils the crows with the peanut butter, but she just laughs about her "extra shiny" crows.
by jalada on 12/26/22, 10:59 PM
Cute. My parents' house has, for a few years now, been plagued by crows attacking the windows in the early hours of the morning, dive-bombing them, standing outside them screaming, pecking them, etc. If they're not attacking the house they're on the roof or in nearby trees screaming.
The closest to a solution has been to cover every window with outside blinds to at least stop them smashing into them.
I stayed with them for a few months and was woken up by this every morning without fail. Honestly, it was pretty distressing.
I love birds and feed them in our garden (so do my parents!), but I wouldn't want to encourage crows to follow me around after that. I'm always in two minds about this tendency for humans to...humanise...animal behaviour.
by keeptrying on 12/26/22, 6:17 PM
I live in the Oakland hills so our living room is at the height where birds fly.
Over the last 5 years I've realized that there are a pair of crows which essentially own the airspace above our house and in front of it.
Each time a hawk or owl or crane flies into this airspace, it will be hounded by these 2 crows. And it happens pretty often.
(One of the crows only has 1 leg - that's why I know its the same 2 each time. We've named him Blackbeard.)
I imagine there is so much of nature we just blindly miss.
by starkd on 12/26/22, 5:32 PM
First read this as "how to befriend cows". So, inevitably surprised on visiting the site!
by phillc73 on 12/26/22, 5:37 PM
My Mum did this with magpies in Australia. She lives alone in a small rural town and started feeding these two magpies, that seemed to like her garden, with small pieces of meat.
Over the course of a couple of years, the magpie pair even brought their chicks along for a free feed. At one point there were six or seven regular breakfast guests.
One of the original magpies would practically eat our of my mother's hand, the other wasn't quite so bold.
Sadly, they stopped coming at one point. My mum heard from a neighbour that a large number of local birds, including magpies, had been poisoned. I guess that's what happened to them.
by _448 on 12/27/22, 11:23 AM
My Mom does this wherever she lives. She feeds as well as puts bowls of water for birds and animals. And if there are regular visitors then she talks to them. The trick is to be as natural as possible and consciously avoid threatening tone or body language.
Having watched this since my childhood I too had once befriended, in my case Cows and Sheeps from the nearby fields, while on my daily walks few years ago. I use to sing songs and they use to gather around me. It was so amazing to watch. Afterwards even if I did not sing they use to gather around just after seeing me. The sad part was some of these animals were raised for slaughter and I thought making them believe in humans was not the right thing to do. It use to be a dilemma for me whenever I saw them on whether I should engage with them.
Having communication with animals and seeing them respond back is one of the most amazing experiences. Most pet owners will understand this.
by kposehn on 12/27/22, 1:00 AM
I’ve got ~55 ravens near my home that know me very well and always come around for treats (unsalted unroasted cashews). Over the last few seasons I’ve gotten to see a number of fledglings getting trained, gotten to know their various personalities and been fortunate to learn a great deal about them.
They’re amazingly intelligent and very gregarious once they trust you. A particularly brave one will even perch just out of reach and snatch cashews out of the air. Others will hover over me in the breeze asking for treats and catch them as well.
They definitely train you too - they know where I live. If they don’t get fed for a while, they’ll croak their frustrations down my chimney at me.
Amazing birds and I feel very fortunate to have formed some bond with them.
by 0xmarcin on 12/26/22, 6:11 PM
I grow up in a small village in eastern europe. It is amazing that you can befriend most of the animals. Chickens are too primitive for that, but cows turned out to be quite intelligent. You can do it the same as with crows, but you should start with a younger animal. You may bring a young cow something to eat and after some time it will recognize you. And they really love to be hand carded (this thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carding). Also remember that cows are quite dangerous (as most of the huge farm animals).
by macrolime on 12/26/22, 8:23 PM
Once when I visiting a friend I heard someone saying hello, hello outside the window. I looked out and couldn't see anyone. Then I saw this crow standing there and it said hello again.
Turns out one of my friends neighbors used to feed the crows and taught one of them to say hello like a parrot.
by eyelidlessness on 12/26/22, 7:03 PM
I haven’t made a point to befriend crows, but I’ve very much made a point to establish mutual trust and respect. When I moved my pup from Saint Paul (which had surprisingly few if any crows) back to my long time home of Seattle (which, I’ve only since learned, if famous for its crows), I had to teach pup not to chase crows. She actually has learned the difference between crows (and Steller’s jays) and other birds.
And the crows definitely know us. And recognized us when we moved to another neighborhood. They know we give them a wide berth if they’re doing their thing on the ground whenever we can, crossing the road or splitting the middle wherever possible. And they calmly move aside when they see that we can’t. Sometimes one will see us and (I think) find a perch to announce our approach to the others. At first this seemed like a warning, but now it feels more like a friendly heads up.
I don’t regularly give them food, but I did sometimes leave little stuff for them at a designated place outside my last house. It was an accident the first time, I had left a little cup of salsa out on top of my yard/food waste bin and forgotten it was there until I saw a crow fly off with it. After that, any deliberate offering left there was swept up within minutes.
I’d like to make better friends with them, but most of my encounters are with pup in tow. While she definitely understands they’re different than other birds, she still needs fairly strict control to keep her behaved while we pass by. So friendly respect at a distance feels more appropriate.
by jamal-kumar on 12/27/22, 1:35 AM
Anyone ever seen a talking crow? Corvids are a lot like parrots in this regard, they're just incredibly uncanny mimics [1] [2] [3]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I5Vm_YO_MY
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9epnUBQHXI
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfsnHVaScjg
by paulette449 on 12/27/22, 1:11 PM
While this thread is about crows, I can't recommend Bernd Heinrich's books, many of which feature his relationship with ravens, highly enough. A Year in the Maine Woods [1] is a classic. Mind of the Raven [2] and Ravens in Winter [3] may be of interest to anyone following this thread and since I am speaking about ravens in a thread about crows, an Audubon article "How to Tell a Raven from a Crow" [4] may also be of interest.
[1] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77166.A_Year_in_the_Main... [2] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254704.Mind_of_the_Raven [3] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122665.Ravens_in_Winter [4] - https://www.audubon.org/news/how-tell-raven-crow
by smusamashah on 12/27/22, 12:48 AM
There is a saying in my region told by our elders.
If crows are cawing it means there are guests outside.
It won't make sense in urban areas much but it does in rural. Since they are intelligent and good at recognizing faces, there cawing can mean there is someone unknown outside.
by shrimpx on 12/26/22, 9:02 PM
My neighbor befriended a crow, and was recently asking around about how to unbefriend the crow, who has become a nuisance stealing every object it could carry from their back porch.
by 082349872349872 on 12/26/22, 5:08 PM
With other wildlife, changing silhouette can make a big difference in approach bubbles. Being in a kayak or on a horse allows much closer approach before flight.
Does anyone know if the same goes for corvids?
by geocrasher on 12/26/22, 4:57 PM
When I tried to befriend the neighborhood crows, my wife took pity on me and got me a cat as a gift.
by senthilnayagam on 12/26/22, 6:29 PM
from India, my wife feeds squirrels, crows and pigeon on kitchen window, they recognise her and wait for her to put food.my wife only feeds them freshly cooked food or raw rice and they have varied taste. they kind of avoid me as I am stranger to them.
by osrec on 12/26/22, 7:30 PM
Interesting. Also, Mastodon threads seem to be much easier to follow that Twitter... Twitter feels like a confusing mess of replies in any order. I could be wrong, but this felt much more ordered, and therefore made more sense to me.
Edit: also faster.
by Waterluvian on 12/26/22, 9:13 PM
There’s two blue jays that live in the forest my house is in. A squirrel was once giving them a hard time. They were on the fence squawking away as the squirrel kept rushing them then retreating. I let one of my cats out who executed the perfect hunt on the squirrel that had no clue my cat was there. After ten mins of proud trotting and wanting inside, I convinced my cat to drop the squirrel, which ran off.
I want to say this was the beginning of a jay/cat alliance but nothing came of it. The jays are around all summer though which is nice.
by denton-scratch on 12/27/22, 1:42 PM
I've seen this title about three times, and each time I've read it as "How to Befriend Cows". Cows are fine and all that, but I like to eat them.
by acyou on 12/27/22, 12:30 AM
Don't feed the wildlife!! Better to let crows be crows. They are wild animals and not domesticated, nor is there a great reason that they should be domesticated in any way. They along with the seagulls and starlings are already clearing out the rest of the other native species of birds, do they really need more help? Moreover, isn't it incredibly self centric to do this sort of bird feeding thing without any regard for the long term consequences?
by 11235813213455 on 12/26/22, 6:13 PM
All strategies here are about food, I don't think feeding any kind of wild animals is good
by vintermann on 12/27/22, 10:08 AM
I've tried to befriend the local winter-flock of crows. But mostly, it's the magpies that's adopted me. Crows are like, can this be true? Is the human leaving the food there for me? Or would I be stealing it? Meanwhile the magpie has already gone, human has food, YAY! and grabbed it all in seconds (they have a surprising capacity in that crop of theirs).
The magpies certainly recognize me now, and do a kind of friendly swoop in front of me to make sure I see them. Sometimes the crows sweep in and grab the treat, to sharp protest from the magpie. And in the summer half of the year, the crows too sometimes get bullied away by a seagull.
I have a feeling the magpies definitively don't like it if I deliberately feed any of the bigger birds. But even the seagulls (which are rather aggressive when they have chicks) have gotten noticeably nicer to me when they've understood there's a chance at an unsalted peanut from time to time.
by lovehashbrowns on 12/27/22, 3:19 PM
I had lunch with a crow once in downtown Austin at one of those outside eating tables. I sat down with some pizza and saw the crow standing by, likely waiting for me to finish and throw away whatever I didn't eat. I figured it'd be easier if we ate together, so I picked out a piece of bread and left it on the table an arm's length away from me, and it hopped on top of the table and ate the piece. Then I would take a bite of the pizza and tear off a piece for my crow pal for it to eat, and it went that way for about 30 minutes. Easily one of the most rewarding experiences for me as a lifelong city slicker. The lil birb could tell we were sharing a meal and I wasn't a threat. I'd love to do that again! Peanuts sounds good. I s'ppose I can try picking a consistent walking route and taking peanuts with me to try and make another crow pal, maybe a longer friendship this time.
by cainxinth on 12/26/22, 5:22 PM
> It's probably not good for them, but they adore cheetos.
I can relate
by BLKNSLVR on 12/27/22, 11:29 AM
There was a juvenile magpie on the balcony handrail outside the large office kitchen / lunchroom space. I went out and left the corner of a cheese biscuit on the balcony floor just to see what it would do. It didn't show any interest until I went back inside, and it spent a couple of minutes looking at the biscuit, looking at the door.
I then had to go back to my desk, not knowing the end result.
A couple of hours later we had our monthly all-hands meeting in the kitchen / lunch room space.
For the full hour of the meeting, there was a juvenile magpie standing on the balcony floor, at the door, looking inside and warbling.
I'm assuming it liked the country cheese sample.
by loudthing on 12/26/22, 7:34 PM
"How to befriend crows", also known as "how to get away with a murder".
by dilap on 12/26/22, 5:11 PM
Does it work with grackles? I'd really love to befriend a grackle or two.
by maxnoe on 12/27/22, 9:27 AM
On La Palma, there is a pair of ravens living up in the mountain near the observatory.
They are incredibly smart and very tame. They will happily land on your shoulder while you try to eat your lunch and pick away into your lunch box.
They will do loopings above groups of tourists, land, beg for food, and when they receive food, do some more fly-bys and loopings.
They bury food in the ground and I bet they find all of it later.
I am pretty sure they recognize people, as they came straight for me and my wife when we were hiking and not to the other people around...
by sacnoradhq on 12/26/22, 10:26 PM
Corvids must be Irish. ;) They have long memories and do exhibit cooperative behaviors with other species. I've watched quasi-documentaries first-hand accounts about this phenom on YT.
They're also quite socially/situationally adept. A crow snuck into my mechanic's garage and stole a bag of sunflower seeds on top of a rolling toolbox about 30 ft / 10 m into the building without being seen. They then proceeded to take their loot back to their murder and had a sunflower seed party in the alley.
by dhosek on 12/26/22, 10:28 PM
When I was in first grade, in the wake of a particularly big year of cicadas, the area around my school and home was overwhelmed with large numbers of crows and ravens. In fall, the numbers were so high that they became somewhat aggressive and on multiple occasions came to the windows of the school and pecked at them, which was, unsurprisingly, an event that could disrupt classroom activity for at least half an hour at a time.
by Dazzler5648 on 12/28/22, 1:47 AM
Dang. I love how cute this "hack" seems, but at the same time I hate to see anyone advocating feeding wild animals. It not only violates Leave No Trace, but it also violates other people's enjoyment of the crows as wild animals, and violates the animals' right to stay wild. Stomachs never lie. As someone who lives in an extremely remote and wild part of the USA, it blows my mind to check in on social media and feeds like this where people have co-opted wild animals "poor lives" as something laid open to some sort of weird new manifest destiny. They animals are not here for our enjoyment or entertainment. They're not here to be used. Sure, feed the crows Cheetos etc. if you're cruel, but don't suggest to the Internet that other people do this, because it's just not right.
I definitely wasn't expecting the author to be a biologist. Where I live, fed wild animals are dead wild animals. Because you don't know when that animal who is now used to being fed is gonna break into the neighbors' houses or simply beg at the door, and get trapped or shot or poisoned or all three. It happens. Dang.
by dssagar93 on 12/27/22, 5:19 AM
My entire family has befriended crows. I live on the 3rd floor. When the crow comes in, we feed them with hands directly. He takes the food right from our hand and eats it slowly. This worked out simply because we started feeding them daily. Initially they used to just run away but we kept giving food and slowly they started trusting us.
by memling on 12/27/22, 12:02 AM
Relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/bestoflegaladvice/comments/ki9gb1/i...
by macawfish on 12/26/22, 8:24 PM
People are upvoting this after watching "It's a Wonderful Life" yesterday I see
by Reason077 on 12/26/22, 5:45 PM
I first read the headline as “how to befriend cows”, and that seemed a lot more interesting!
I’m no friend of crows (specifically, magpies), having been attacked by them in the past. They’re also considered a non-native, invasive species in my country.
by jimmaswell on 12/26/22, 8:03 PM
A raven flies over my house every day. It would be interesting to try attracting it. It's never been interested in my feeder though.
by shmerl on 12/26/22, 11:05 PM
Is there a way to make them come to a feeder? They seem to avoid one with peanuts despite everyone saying they love peanuts.
by futuretaint on 12/26/22, 10:14 PM
i fed a few blocks of crows for 4 years. mostly dry cat food. each block had a unique family group and they swoop down in succession, hop over and i'd stand there and watch them eat for a bit. I also saw a crow funeral once and I stopped a crow dive bombing run (on other pedestrians).
by ankraft on 12/26/22, 6:05 PM
Two crows. Rick and Two Crows.
by infradig on 12/26/22, 11:51 PM
Is it legal to feed wild animals in other countries?
by mulmen on 12/26/22, 6:07 PM
Why though? There are dozens of crows in my neighborhood. If I befriend crows will they come to expect food from me? What about the pigeons and seagulls? Will they come to resent me?
My policy on neighborhood birds has always been neutrality.
by jerrygoyal on 12/27/22, 5:42 AM
came here to expect something counterintuitive but it's just "feed them regularly".
by fencepost on 12/26/22, 7:45 PM
And if you want to do the opposite, consider wearing a very realistic Trump mask while you throw rocks at seagulls outside Mar-A-Lago.
by theteapot on 12/26/22, 7:59 PM
TL;DR Give them food. Shocker.
by ericlnu on 12/27/22, 6:28 AM
amazing <3
by Jackson12 on 12/26/22, 4:43 PM
Crow Tech Slaps