The AMERICAN CROW | Smart and Unique

The American crow is very familiar and found over a great deal of North America. At home in our cities, parks, neighborhoods, and backyards. These canny corvids are highly intelligent and can remember people. Let's get more familiar with this wonderful bird.

One bird they are commonly mistaken for is their much larger cousin the Raven. These majestic birds have some similarities however their size differs as does their bill. The clever American crow is found throughout most of the lower 48 states outside the southwestern deserts, and from east to west in Canada. One of the most adaptable birds, crows have benefited from living around people. taking advantage of places such as agricultural fields, roadsides, and garbage dumps.

There isn’t much these large corvids won’t eat. Seeds, nuts, berries, fruit, grains, many kinds of small animals like mice, toads, earthworms, even garbage, and carrion. Other food items include aquatic animals, like fish, mussels, clams, or young turtles, and different kinds of insects as well as crop pests which is a good thing for farmers. American crows will also eat eggs and nestlings of many different species of other birds.

The male and female build the nest, even their young from previous years may help. Anywhere from 3-9 eggs may be laid, and they could have one or two broods depending. American crows are full of interesting behaviors, for one they are highly social birds that are quite intelligent. They have remarkable memory. They also have tight-knit families, rarely is there ever just a single crow, usually at least one other or more is nearby.

Time Stamps:
0:00 Start
0:27 Appearance
0:53 Raven and Crow difference
1:36 Range and Distribution
1:57 Habitat
2:36 What they eat
2:57 Calls, Song and Sounds
4:14 Breeding, Nest, Eggs and Nestlings
5:23 Behavior, Intelligence, Family, Funeral, Preening
7:40 Population, West Nile Virus
8:24 Conclusion, other interesting things and my own thoughts

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Intro/outro music
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Crow on road by Necati Bahadir Bermek
Crows at the dump by Panaramka from Canva Pro

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Crows on a field by Jojoo from Canva Pro
Crows open woodland by ROnald Wilfred Jansen
Crows in forest edge by aaPhoto from PIxabay

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Crow on Park bench by GayleenFroese2 from Pexels
Crow on the green by Francv from Canva pro
Gravestone Ellie Burgin from Pexels
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Crow at marsh by IgorBondarenko from Canva Pro
Crow at Beach by T-Fujishima from Canva Pro

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Desert by Falkenpost from Pixabay

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Seeds by Nonnatthapat from Canva Pro
Peanuts by Tookapic from Canva Pro
Mixed Berries by Vkbhat from Canva Pro
Mixed Fruit by Trang Doan from Canva Pro
Corn Cobs by Livier Garcia from Pexels

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Mouse by LappoAleksandr from Canva Pro
Common Toad by CreativeNatureNL from Canva Pro
Earthworm by Ockra from Canva Pro

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Crow and garbage by Sorranop from Canva Pro
Crows and Carrion by Multipedia from Canva Pro

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Fish by Tookapic from Pexels
Mussels by Beesmurf from Pixabay
Clams by SouthLandp from Canva Pro
Young Turtle by 271277 from Pixabay

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Beetle by Marradt from Canva Pro
Cutworm by Moxumbic from Canva Pro
Colorado Potato Bettle by Mehaniq from Canva Pro
Insect on Crop by Khlongwangchao from Canva Pro

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Bird Eggs 1 by Klupal from PIxabay
Bird Eggs 2 by Mohann from Pixabay
Bird Eggs 3 by Mauricioolivira from Pexels

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[egar]

I remember my friend back in the 1960s nursed a crow back to health after being hit by a car. He never caged it and kept it in an open box on his porch. He soon flew but occasionally returned for food for many years. My friend would whistle at the bird flying high and the bird would come for food. He was magnificent. I will never forget that.

[scottbruner]

This is so true. These guys are amazing. In my dad's old yard, he had protective netting over a few plants. One day, I saw a crow that had his foot caught in the netting, and couldn't fly away. As I went to assist, he made that begging sound mentioned in the video. He stayed amazingly calm as I freed his foot. For years afterwards, that bird would come up and actually perch on my arm or shoulder most of the times he saw me. The best wild friend I've ever had.

[jamesdaubenspeck]

I had crows in my yard, they liked the corn feeder and the pecan tree. One day watching them, I noticed one bird had a very peculiar gate. This individual was missing his right foot, no clue how he injured himself. There on the ground with him was another family member and they had extra guards posted. Over the next five years I saw the handi-capable crow numerous times. He always had a buddy on the ground with him and at least two members posted as guards. The altruistic nature of this interaction gave me a new appreciation for this species. Happy birthday Lesley's mama.

[alclubb]

I have been feeding the crows in my yard for a year or more. One day I noticed one that was limping and I saw his foot was injured. A few days later I saw him again but his whole foot and lower part of his leg was missing. I started feeding him and I named him Hoppy. When he sees me come out the front door, he flies right into my tree. Now all of his friends come too. I like having Hoppy in my yard.

[LesleytheBirdNerd]

Make sure to say happy birthday to my mama, she always reads the comments and I'm pretty sure that she is my number one fan ❤🐦 Love you mama, to the moon and back. 😙

[JennRighter]

Sorry I keep commenting, lol. Crows can learn to speak human language, mostly when in captivity, but there have been cases of them doing it in the wild. One of my favorite stories of this was a crow living in a Midwestern college town in the 70’s. The crow spent time near a path where many people frequently walked their dogs. The crow learned to whistle and say “here boy, here boy”. A few people said they thought the crow was actually entertaining itself because it could sometimes get confused dogs to come to it. Truly amazing birds.

[djosbun]

Last year there was a family of four crows hanging out near my employer's building. I started throwing pieces of bread in the parking lot, along with some seed and peanuts. After one week, one of the four came up to our locked warehouse glass door and started tapping his beak on the glass. He saw me inside the warehouse! A few days later he tapped on the main office door, near where my desk was situated. It was such an amazing behavior! I figured that one of the parents sent him because he was the smallest of the four. I will always be fond of that special little guy!

[guysmith]

I’m in the Army stationed at the Presidio of Monterey. We’ve been feeding a pair of crows from our window for the past few weeks. They are such amazing creatures. We’ve been doing the same for a scrub jay that hangs out in the tree outside the window.

[WolcottOakTree]

I started feeding some crows and now they come around ever afternoon. After a couple of months they have become more trusting. This is often the high point of my day.

[anangookwewolf]

In my cultures stories, Ojibwe, the crow used to be this brilliant, rainbow colored bird. I do not recall the entire story offhand but the crow ended up flying too close to the sun and the sun scorched the crows feathers. That is why you can still see the slight rainbow iridescence in their feathers

[JamesCasatelli]

The crows in my neighborhood leave me chicken bones as presents for leaving peanuts out for them. Weird, but it's a nice gesture none the less.

[yamatodamashii]

I lived in Japan for 17 years and made friends with a crow. It took about a year and a half before he would sit with me on the park bench to share lunch. He was funny because he’d follow me back to the elementary school where I worked and knew my schedule somehow and would hang out, tapping on the window of the classroom I was in.

I named him Rook—after the chess piece not the bird. It’s nice to think if I make it back to Kagoshima, he’d stop and say hi.

[jrm]

Crows are one of my fav birds. They are very smart. I had the privilege of seeing a fully lame crow unlock a flight cage after watching only once how the cage's new lock work. This crow had worked it only a few minutes and bam! The cage was fully open, door swinging open. The lock took 2 human hands to operate. The crow was able to manipulate this lock with his beak and one of his lame claws.
Amazing.

[WAlter-ep]

They also do a great job keeping the roadways clean from roadkill 😊

[teresasmith]

I love crows too, especially when they all come together and swirl around in the sky just enjoying being a crow☺️

[grnl]

At a nature center in Illinois, during the 70s & 80s, was an outdoor cage with a crow in it. The sign next to the cage said “My name is Loudmouth, I can say hello!”. My sister and I said hello to Loudmouth the Crow at every visit for years. The last time we saw it, we said hello a few times, and started to walk away, and then heard a loud “Hello!” in a crow’s voice. They can mimic sounds somewhat.

[blusnuby]

And they are marvelous fliers, at times, seeming to revel in the pure joy of it ! Crows are SURVIVORS, & I respect that.

[JF-xqfr]

I have watched a murder eat grubs picked from a mowed, sun-warmed hill... They knew exactly when it would be ideal to arrive, and would barely poke underground to snatch these large grubs... Would toss them back like mini shrimp cocktail in one gulp. Absolutely amazing to witness their incredible intelligence and social cooperative efforts.

[beyourownforceofnature]

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