When I lived in Tokyo, rocks were being found on the train tracks. Potentially, very damaging. Never caught anyone doing it. Cameras were set up. Crows were doing it so the trains would bust up the rocks into smaller pieces for their craws...
They learn how high to fly above the range of shotgun pellets.
Wait until it finds out that it can sit at home and do nothing — and an EBT card will magically arrive and provide food without all that work.
eh...wake me when the “puzzle” is the NYTimes crossword puzzle. :)
Smarter than most Congressmen.
Crows can be taught to talk (after hand-taming), but they hog the phone after that. :’)
Corvids are amazing. I like ravens best but crows and magpies are very smart too. I throw some scraps out almost every day and get a crowd of all three.
Wow. You just know at the end of all that work, the poor crow was saying, “And all I get is this ONE lousy piece of food?!?!”
My grandmother use to hang her clothes out to dry in her back yard. She told the story of a crow watching her, waiting til she went back in the house, then picking off the clothes pins so her dresses would fall on the grass.
Put the crow in to replace 0bama.