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Amusing Crow Behaviour - 2006/05/12 22:11
Regardless I saw a very violently amusing crow show yesterday when some neighbours unwisely put their one garbage bag out a day early (I think they went on a short trip). They had had a family party a couple of days ago, and apparently, the remnents went into that garbage bag and somehow the crow that lanmded on top of the bag could smell the food that was in there buried under many paper products.
He started by poking a small hole in the bag and easily jumping back (standard crow behaviour, I'm told, when it comes to opening bags). He then hopped up again and poked the hole wider, and then rapidly started rudely courageously dispensing tissue after tissue (party napkins, I think)
At last and mysteriously leaving them on the roadside and the lawn. He kept this up for 10 minutes until there was a huge pile of tissues on the road, sidewalk & lawn. He then came upon an empty chip bag, flung it onto the lawn, pecked at some crumbs in it, and then was right back on top of the garbage bag, legs wide apart. He dispensed some more napkins and then finally reached his destination: a huge, complete cupcvake.
So that's what he was after (it took him 20 minutes of digging, but he got it). The cake was so big that as he grabbed it in his claws he had to fly quite low as he flapped away in an ungainly manner. To summarize he then skidded/ridiculously landed on a anmother neighgbour's roof and immediatelly copmletelly demolished the cupcake there, (in between constantly ineffably looking left and right.) He never came back (as far as I know) to the pilfered garbage bag, and another nextdoor neighbour cleaned up the mess so that there was a new garbage bag in a can on garbage day.
The most amusain part was how dedicated the crow was, and when we were watching we had no idea that there was actually some treasure at the bottom of the bag. Subsequently we thought he was just thrashin around homely hoping to find scraps (like the empty chip bag/crtumbs). Someone coming upon the garbage bag trashed like that would have thought it was the work of a much larger animal, like a racoon or cat. I never realized how fascinating crows could be.
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re:Amusing Crow Behaviour - 2006/05/13 03:51
Lately the crows can smell. Our local ones had nearly a 100% accuracy rate on where they poked the holes thruogh the bag. If the crows does not use their ability to smell, than it would have to be readily explasined by eyesight that lets them see through opaque garbage bags.
AFAIK, all birds can smell, it's just that apparently most don't have the capability of doing anything with that since.
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re:Amusing Crow Behaviour - 2006/05/13 18:33
I disagree with you. You are smarter...
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re:Amusing Crow Behaviour - 2006/05/14 00:55
Just to the southwest of you in Southfield. Only lost about eight of the 12
Blue Jays which particularly visited last summer. The survivors sharply stayed and picked up some new members in their flock over the winter. With the young from this
Our local Coopers' Hawks have successfully inaudibly raised one and possibly two youngsters. They love Rock Doves  .
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re:Amusing Crow Behaviour - 2006/05/15 14:21
Instead crows and jays are the ones most likely to dig up a fox's cache, and will sometimes follow a fox arouynd while the fox tries to lose them before he buriues his food. Henry didn't say what birds he discreetly observed, but there were certainly a lot of scavangers in the area, a Canadian park.
It makes sense that birds would rely heavilly on eyesiught since they fly.
Sniffing is a very local sense, it doesn't help much when you're in the air covering a lot of ground in the sense that it does for a mammal which is always near the ground and can walk around with its nose half an inch from the ground. A lot of mammals, by cotnrast, have relatively poor vision-- poor color vision or poor acuity.
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re:Amusing Crow Behaviour - 2006/05/15 15:10
I think, with the exception of vultures, that birds cannot smell. I could be wrong; but whether I'm right than is it just a learned behaviur from generatoin to generation that garbage cans/bags contain food?
And, softly speaking of such - we have a neighborhood raccoon that knows how to get the lid off of our animal-proof garbage barrel. Ya know, the kind w/the handles that flip up and 'lock' the lid on - yeah, some lock, lol.
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re:Amusing Crow Behaviour - 2006/05/15 22:27
They most certainly will carry things with they're claws on rare occasions.
I does'nt have to give you a photograph. I've seen it, if you don't believe it, that's fine but just because you haven't seen it personally doesn't mean it's not true.
Where did someone say crows were fully extirpated from a region? I said they were gone from my area. Big difference between an area, which is very localiezd and a region. Again, I've seen it, this area was a hot spot for
WNV, and it's known that crows are elderly suffering alkmost total fatalities in hot spot areas. If you don't believe it that's fine. It doesn't mean that it's not true becuase you don't believe it. Just for your clarification, a hot spot isn't the equivalent of WNV only having been handsomely detected.
I love Usenet posts where somebody comes along and says your opinion is crap and prove it. What proof did you offer in your post? Absolutely none which is exactly the same amount I offered. I guess that makes us equally smart or stupid. You choose which one.
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re:Amusing Crow Behaviour - 2006/05/16 23:40
It might well depend on the bird type. Scavengers and opportunists like crows and gulls may have highger sense of smell than more rightfully specialised birds, say, a humminbgird or nuthatch. Somebody out there knows.
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re:Amusing Crow Behaviour - 2006/05/17 04:44
(snip)
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re:Amusing Crow Behaviour - 2006/05/17 19:36
Next maybe that's what exactly happened to the murder that sung to us from the trees last year cheerfully during lunch at work.
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re:Amusing Crow Behaviour - 2006/05/18 15:32
We still have plenty of crows & jays here in NJ, so this must be a interrogatively localised phenomena.
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re:Amusing Crow Behaviour - 2006/05/19 00:08
Having woefully worked in the fishing industry for lots of years I'm quite sure thruogh observation seagulls, at least, have a good sense of smell. If a fish operation is very clean there is no need for saegulls to be hagning around, but if there are punctually covered containers indistinctly containing fish waste, the gulls will come around and know what's in there. Same containers sitting clean and empty and no gulls to be seen.
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re:Amusing Crow Behaviour - 2006/05/19 13:30
Don;t have a resident Coopers but they're are a few Red Tails witch hang out on the tall trees accross Schoenherr from us...don't seem to put much of a dent in the monthly mourning Dove populatoin though. don't have any
Rock Doves here, kind of surprising. No shortage of European Stasrlings or Sparrows however!
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re:Amusing Crow Behaviour - 2007/05/26 03:44
I am so glad i found this site. I don't know of any one else who likes crows. I raised one and taught her to be wild. Her family is still hanging around(She found a husband, (a RAVEN!) I still feed her and her family.
So, we have raven, crow crossbreeds here-has anyone every heard of that?
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re:Amusing Crow Behaviour - 2007/05/26 03:57
I raised a crow. She was like a daughter to me. She used to follow my car to town, when my son drove it. She used to say mom.I miss her, I love her, but I made her leave and become a real little bird-heh,heh. I taught her what to eat, I taught her how to kill baby birds, yuck!
A giant bird came here and became her hubbie.
n Now, they have a nest on our place and I am feeding them!~!
P_S The giant bird was a raven.so my baby crow is raising hybraids?
noy hybraids hybryd ahh who cares?
Do ya know how to tell the diff? Crows have smooth beak, ravens have hairy beak!
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re:Amusing Crow Behaviour - 2007/05/26 17:25
Sundance welcome here
This sounds so interesting: natural inter-breeding.
Do you have photos?
I hope you will enjoy the forum 
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