5 Reasons To Like Crows (American Crow)

Crows belong to the smartest bird family on the planet, Corvids! They are fun, interesting and intelligent. Sometimes they bring gifts to people that have befriended them and they never forget a face, a good or bad one! Lots of people love them but many hate them too. It's thought they destroy corn crops and spread the West Nile virus but actually, this isn't true. Crows are misunderstood birds that need some love!

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:39 Crows are very similar to humans
02:47 Crows are a very beautiful bird
04:07 Crows are very fun to observe
05:13 Crows are more helpful than you may realize
07:10 Crows are very, very smart
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[teresamacdonald]

My Dad used to feed crows for years in Co. Cork, Ireland. When he passed away, hundreds of crows surrounded our house on the telephone wires, side by side with no spaces remaining. It was both beautiful and sad. I am sure they came to say goodbye.

[larryca]

My Uncle Charlie taught me a lot about crows. I'll never forget what he said about them:
'If people were birds, very few of us would be smart enough to be crows."

[daemonillusionum]

As a kid, I met a raven in the forest. It started with a nut falling from a tree. As kids do, I checked it out, opened it and threw it away. And then that huge black bird came swooping down, eating the nut I had just opened. I picked up more nuts and opened them for the raven. And eventually, it started bringing the nuts to me. Once it had enough, we sat there for a bit, it started grooming itself. Guess it felt pretty comfortable around me. It lost two or three smaller feathers and I picked them up. In the end, it lost a big wing feather and put it into my hand. I still have it today. That was definitely a very memorable experience.

[saiprem]

While living in southern India where crows are numberless, I found a crow in my water tank. Even though I did not like crows at the time I climbed in and rescued it. As soon as I lifted it out of the water it seemed like the whole sky was black with crows coming to witness the rescue of their friend. It seemed like they had a telepathic connection.

[ternalvigilance]

Every morning, I open the gates at my work. Same time, 6 days a week, for years. I always have coffee and a sandwich. Bagel, muffin, whatever. One day, I saw a crow sitting on top of my truck. Watching me. I said good morning. He kind of murmured something back. So, I peeled off a piece of my sandwich and threw it to him. Now, every day as I unlock the gates and get ready to start the truck for the day, hes there. But he'll softly caw at me. So, I say good morning and throw him a piece of whatever food I have. This has gone on every day, for probably 4 years. Hes my friend. I look forward to seeing him in the mornings and cant remember a day he wasnt there waiting on me to say good morning.

[Tiger-One]

Crows have a sense of humor as well. There is a story about crows hanging out on the roof of a Canadian supermarket during winter. They'd wait until shoppers walked outside, then shuff snow off the ledge onto the heads of the unsuspecting customers.

[LaundryFaerie]

Crows have personality plus. And they enjoy pranking people. We had a crow who would sit in the tree next to our house and mew like a kitten; when anyone looked up, he would "caw-caw-caw" with laughter. I loved that.

[mbronc]

I have recently become fond of crows. We recently started raising chickens and have found that they help keep the birds of prey away from our yard.

[UrbanOutlawsSkCo]

My aunt has a family of crows she has fed in her yard for 20 years. They bring here all types of shiny stuff as presents. They are truly amazing creatures

[seancampbell]

While solo fishing the Situk River in Yakutat, Alaska on August 7th 2014, I had caught my limit of Coho Salmon. With time to burn, I grabbed my Mahogany Taylor GS Mini travel guitar and began playing under the shade of a tree by the river’s edge. I first noticed just one crow perched above, observing the magic musical guitar, hanging on every chord and note! This crow came closer and seemed to be inspecting my guitar. I began singing songs to this crow and within minutes there were two dozen practically perched on my shoulders. They were mesmerized by the sounds, including string squeaks and harmonics. I played several songs for them and their numbers grew. Finally, when I had to go, I packed my guitar in the case and thanked them all for listening! They followed me to my truck, squawking as it to beg me not to take this wonderful new discovery (to them) away! They flocked with me down the road about a mile before peeling off to return to their day on the river. They absolutely loved the guitar and the music. My best audience in 45-years of playing!

[YippeePlopFork]

I'm a volunteer wildlife rescuer in my "free" time and one of my early rescues was a crow that had been injured by a cat. The other crows in the area saw me pick the crow up and carry it back to my house and remained present around my house for several weeks. When I was finally able to release the crow, I noticed a *huge* increase in the number of crows around my gardens and so I would often feed them. From then on until I moved house, I always had crows lining my fence, roof and nearby trees. Watching them became a hobby for me because they are one of the most mischievous and entertaining animal I've ever encountered.

[puttentanesame]

My neighborhood crow buddy saved Luna's life (my cat). Early mornings I let Luna out, but one day Mr. Crow was throwing a loud caw caw fit. Looked out the window and saw a coyote sitting right outside the door. I check every day now before I let her out. Crow love is real.

[valdrblodorn]

I have had a very close relationship with crows my whole life. At one time I lived in a city in an apartment with a flat rooftop. I lived there for a week after moving from across town before they found me and changed their hangout spot to my roof. I was a chef at the time and saved all meat scraps for my feathered friends, they were all very healthy birds and a bit bigger than most other crows. My neighbours once asked me what they could do to keep the crows away and wanted me to put those plastic owls on the roof. When I told them that the crows were my friends and nobody was going to mess with them in any way on my watch, they moved that weekend. They were very superstitious and believed that crows are a bad omen. I believe the opposite, to me they have brought happiness. When you can be walking down a main street in the city, get recognized by a bird which lands on your arm and speaks to you, it brings you closer to nature, even amongst the concrete and steel.
I have since moved quite a distance from there, I'm now out in the woods where I belong. I was told after I moved that crows had been dive bombing workers that were repairing the chimney for days. It took a few months, but I have made many new crow friends out here, and sometimes I get the feeling that maybe some are actually old friends or their descendants, because of how fast they trusted me and how close they came. I don't feed these crows regularly as I did in the city, they have plenty to eat out here, but they get what's left from hunting and fishing. In fact if they see me in camo, they disperse in different directions, looking for deer, then call to the others when they find one, and begin an audio chaos to get me over there and leave them a warm gut pile that is completely gone the next day. The rooftop crows would bring me gifts sometimes, usually aluminum foil, but the country crows don't bring me gifts, they call me to them.
I really could write a book about my experiences with crows, but I'll wrap it up by saying; Thank you for making this video and for educating people about these very beautiful, intelligent, and amazing animals.

[gailjones]

I had a crow many years ago. I called him “Squwky”. He was brought to me before he was fully grown, he had fallen from a tree. I had a cat and Squwky would bounce over to his food and eat it like it was a gourmet meal. He ate other scraps too. He grew and adopted us as family and guarded us and our property like a pit bull. The mailman hated him as squawky would always dive bomb him. Our next door neighbour didn’t like him either as he would steal her cloths pins and hide them in his stash. Anything shiny or interesting he put in his stash. He loved to pull my hair pins out and fly away with them to his stash. He flew behind our kids to school and perched in the windows to find out which classroom they were in. The school loved him and the kids were the envy of the neighborhood. They loved him flying behind them on their bikes or perching on their shoulders. Something else funny he did was when I would be petting the cat and paying attention to him, Squawky would start to limp around and flop on the grass with his wings spread like he had been wounded, he would lay there making pitiful sounds until I gave him the attention instead. He was so fun and such a character.

[WhiteWitch]

I have a crow as a pet, he was brought to me half starving to death, he had suffered a broken wing some weeks ago and it was already set.He can no longer fly as a result. The vets and local animal shelter wanted to put him down I said no! I took him on as I already have 25+ years experience with birds. He is now starting to thrive in my care and is a wonderful, mischievous crow called Confucius, he has joined us as a much loved member of our family here in the UK. Your video's are great I've learned so much. Thank you.

[vtwintora]

I have two Crows I started feeding.
They don't fly away anymore when they see me.
One is getting close to the house.
I love it.

[emilyphippen]

For years my father fed crows and they recognized his voice and his gentleness and his love for them. When my Dad passed away they all came to his yard either waiting for him or mourning for him. I love Crows as much as he did ♥️

[daveb]

I have always been fascinated by crows since being lost in the woods when I was a kid. A crow led me to a camper who then brought me back to my parents. I was scared and started to cry (6 yrs old) when this crow flew down and hopped over to me and cawed lightly. When I walked towards it, it flew off a ways. Then it would fly back down and lightly caw. Not loud but softly. It did this till I saw the other campers, about an hour.

[jdollinter]

Adopted a family of crows in Madison park 5 years ago and now they have adopted me. People are amazed when they see the older ones hopping along beside me and my walker. Been feeding them a daily diet of dry cat food and peanut butter and on hot summer days I have a heavy crockery bowl I fill with fresh water. They love to stand on the edges and some dunk their whole heads to cool off. Although I have a hard time differentiating them except by the shapes of their tails and the ones who limp, they always recognize me even without my walker.