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Anonymous
Why do crows always get a bad rep?
Sure they are scavengers...
But man are they ever cute.

Post your crows.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
Crows are awesome.
>> Anonymous
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this is why we can't have nice things
>> Juba, The Baghdad Guardsman !1EVr3uyPJI
>>310861
Only ravens are emo.

Crows are cute.
>> Anonymous
are you saying they used a raven in The Crow?
>> Kastere !3GqYIJ3Obs
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BROTIP: Crows can remember human faces. Don't fuck a crow, broskie.
>> Kastere !3GqYIJ3Obs
>>310873
^Don't fuck WITH a crow, broskie.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
>>Why do crows always get a bad rep?

Because they eat garbage and dead people. Also they caw incessantly, chase each other around and roost in huge noisy groups which is kind of scary.
>> Anonymous
its because they're black
>> Anonymous
>>310965

niggerbirds
>> Anonymous
black means death, seriously..archetypes lol
>> Anonymous
Crows are insanely smart. They don't have a bad rep with me.
>> Anonymous
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i have a pet crow his name is Brandon is freaking smart. he woke me up to tell me it was time for me to feed him like a cat
>> Anonymous
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Smart enough to drop nuts in the middle of the street so the cars will crack them. Thus providing food. Smart mutha fuckas.
>> 4tran
How does one tell a raven/crow apart? Are crows smaller?

Storytime! We have a fig tree in our back yard, on the west side of the house. My maternal grandma saw several crows eating the figs, so she chased them away. A short while later, a single crow returned. Again she chases it away. It flies slowly, clockwise around the house, making sure my grandma was following. By the time my grandma got back to the fig tree, ~5 other crows were eating the figs.

TL;DR: crow A acts as distraction, while the other crows eat our figs.
>> Anonymous
>>311073

From what I remember reading, I think crows are indeed supposed to be smaller. Also, awesome story.

I tried to get some pictures of the crows/ravens outside of my apartment last winter. They were scavenging around the dumpster. Right when I got to the apartment door, one saw me and flew off, which I guess suggested to the others to fly off as well. I hadn't even touched the door yet. I was amazed and pissed off at the same time.
>> Anonymous
>>311082
I once read that the Germans had an old saying how you can't hunt crows. It's like they can recognize guns.
>> Anonymous
>>311082

crows have thinner beaks.
>> Anonymous
>>311073

Ravens are much larger, their tails are wedge shaped instead of round, and their calls are deeper.
>> Anonymous
>>311073
Technically all members of the genus Corvus are considerd crows, including ravens. There are numerous species with crow and raven in their common name but the terms don't reflect any actual taxonomic relationships and are generally applied according to size, with larger corvids typically being called ravens.

If you mean how do you tell the difference between Corvus brachyrhynchos and Corvus corax, see>>311170.
>> Anonymous
Crows are surprisingly smart, I'll even say their smarter then the African Grey Parrot. They use tools, and some even drop nuts onto the streets so the cats could crush them. So, I suggest you begin worshiping your new overlords.
>> Anonymous
Is it legal to have a crow as a pet in the US? (California more specifically) I believe it is legal in Canada. I want one really badly. They're so damn cute.
>> Anonymous
>>311194
It's illegal to keep native birds in captivity in the U.S. without a permit. You can buy non-native species of crows, though. Of course, crows are also considered pests so it's legal to shoot them (although you can't legally possess their feathers, bones, etc.) so nobody really gives a shit or bothers enforcing it in the case of crows and ravens. Just don't be a dumbass about it.
>> Anonymous
Sometimes I like to stop in the parking lot after buying McDonalds/Burger King and throw the birds some french fries. It's always either little sparrows or seagulls that take the fries. This one time there was a flock of crows in the area and every time I threw a french fry a gull would swoop down only to be chased away by a crow. The crows didn't eat the fries either, they were just keeping the gulls away from them. This went on for 5-10 minutes at which point I left. I still don't know why the crows would bother chasing away the gulls if they weren't going to eat the fries. Apparently they knew something that I don't...
>> Anonymous
>>311200
Because crows are assholes.

In Japan jungle crows steal lit candles from shrines and either bury them in leaves or drop them into wooded areas, still lit. It's assumed that they're just trying to hoard their spoils and don't know they're setting forest fires but given how intelligent they are you'd think they'd figure it out after doing it for 100's of years.
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I think this is a crow
>> Anonymous
>>311196
>It's illegal to keep native birds in captivity in the U.S. without a permit. You can buy non-native species of crows, though.

...wait....what? I'd have assumed it'd be harder to have non-native things as pets.
>> Anonymous
>>311206
Apart from maybe quail, how many native birds do you see at your local pet shops?
>> Frankengun !HgIdo42VU2
>>311209
I raised some bobwhites once.

They were so cute, following me around the yard and stuff.

Then they got big and I ate them.

P.S.: Quail is good eatin'.
>> Anonymous
if you live in an area with crows, you WILL be able to tell a raven apart from them. They are much bigger, usually on their own, and fly more like a raptor. They also kind of "Graawnk" instead of "caaaw"

Also, they will most likely have a murder of crows harrasing it while it tries to gtfo.
>> Anonymous
Oh, I'd like to add something about the whole crows dropping nuts on the street to crack them.

They mostly do it at crosswalks, so they can safely retrieve their cracked nuts afterwards.

Crows = AWESOME
>> Anonymous
>>311216
That's awful. ;A;
>> Anonymous
>>311200
They know that french fries aren't good for you.
>> Anonymous
Crows remind me of primitive humans, [spoiler]lol fuck your nigger jokes[/spoiler] what with all the scavenging, their ability to communicate and using tools and all that homo sapien faggotry. They would probably be a lot like us a million years from now. However they can also fly. Imagine that.
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>>311766
wat
>> Anonymous
>>311766
I imagine sometime in the far future, there will be a species of sapient crows inhabiting the abandoned human cities, telling stories about a race of ape-like gods that destroyed themselves before the age of crows.
>> Anonymous
KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE
IMPERSONATE CLARK GABLE
>> Anonymous
>>311142
I've read that they can spot a gun. I also read a neat hing about poisoning crows. If a crow finds some food, and doesn't want to share, he may lay on his back to feign that he has been poisoned when other crows come near. The others will recognize the "poisoned crow" look and leave, once they do, the crow goes back to eating.
>> Anonymous
>>311868
That might have been ravens, though, i don't remember exactly.
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WTF NO CROW HERE
>> Anonymous
New Caledonia crows are capable of causal reasoning - unlike chimps:
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/dn14745-crows-make-monkeys-out-of-chimps-in-mental-test.htm
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>> Anonymous
Not sure how you could keep a pet crow. Certainly not in a cage. I don't even keep my own lovebirds in a cage. Something like a crow would most definately want to fly out in the open air, that's not very pet-like, unless they're like cats in that respect.
>> Anonymous
>At a Technology Entertainment Design conference in March 2008, Joshua Klein presented the potential use of a vending machine for crows. He suggested the crows could be trained to pick up trash and the vending machine would be designed to give a reward in exchange for the trash.

oh wow
>> Anonymous
crows are awesome. there are many of them around where i live and i always feel delighted when i see those intelligent big birds on the street. i wish i could befriend one and have it peck on my window for food. is that possible, somehow?
>> Anonymous
>>311885
Having a pet crow would probably be a bit like having a tiny flying ape as a pet, knowing how close to apes they are mentally.
>> Anonymous
>>311913
Would it fly back home? Would it not get hurt by its natural predators?
>> Anonymous
all of you MUST watch this now before posting more in this thread.
>> Anonymous
forgot link

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/120582/detail/
>> Anonymous
>>311201
The Crows use the smoke from the fire to kill parasites in their feathers. Crows have been known to start forest fires by stealing lit cigarettes and dropping them in dry leaves.

I also remember reading a news article about these trains that kept derailing so they put up camera to catch the culprits in the act. The footage showed that the crows were dropping rocks on the rails for some unknown reason. I guess the crows were pissed at the trains.
>> Anonymous
>>312045
I sort of raised a fledgeling once... It failed to fly and was sitting in our yard for 2 days, with no parents or anything coming after it, so we "took it in" and fed it nightcrawlers and various leftovers.

He usually never let us come near, let alone touch him, but he didn't make any attempt to leave, and would often take food from our hands and eat right in front of us.

Eventually he started to get the hang of flying, but instead of leaving like we thought he would, he just hung around on our roof and fence, and followed behind us cawing in a high pitched voice while fluffing his wings about like a moron. This went on for a good while and eventually we stopped feeding him. We saw considerable less and less of him, but he'd always roost on our roof or a nearby conifer in our yard.

Anyways, fast forward 3 years later, and to this day, every few weeks or month or so he STILL comes back and caws at us from our fence or roof. He usually stays a day, then flies off somewhere around dusk, never to be seen for a few more weeks/months.

Best half-pet ever.
>> Anonymous
1: Crows pecked an owl to death in the car park of the hospital where I work. Well, I dunno if they actually pecked it *to* death, but they were certainly pecking when it was dead, which is still fucking scary.

2: R.I.P. PROFESSOR SCREWEYES.
>> Anonymous
>>312470
The Professor got eaten by ravens
Still scary though

Also "Kaw" was decent for a Sci-Fi original film
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my boyfriend saved a baby crow that fell out of the nest and raised him.
he was definitely the most intelligent animal i have ever met. he knew how to open my bag and steal my car keys.
he finally flew away to be with the other crows.
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>>312472
>> Anonymous
Was once a crow that fell out a nest in a tree close to my house, I don't know how many branches it hit on the way down, but it sounded like a lot then it fell right to the floor. Was okay though, had some photos of it sitting on my arm but I can't find them so I am pissed off ^^
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>>312490

Here it is
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
>>312493
tits or gtfo
>> Anonymous
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I'm more of a rook person, myself.
>> Anonymous
>>310842
I saved a baby crow once, but when I picked him up from the floor his mother flew straight to my head and tried to kill me :)
I kept it anyway
>> Anonymous
>>312495
>>312493
Wow, that is a gorgeous area you live in.
>> Anonymous
They steal the nests of prettier birds.

Which means more crows, and less pretty birds.
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I took this photo.
Seems that every single day in the winter at dusk this giant murder of crows flies down the merrimack river in Massachusetts. I believe they are going from east to west. I have no idea why they do it. They stop in parks and anywhere with a lot of trees to rest.

Why the hell do they do it EVERY day exactly as the sun sets?
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>>312846
and I'm talking THOUSANDS of them. I have a few more pics.
>> Anonymous
Clever girl...

Also, crows go like CRAW CRAW
Ravens go like GRONK GRONK, TOC TOC
>> Anonymous
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>>312847
it's pretty cool
>> Anonymous
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZyBNWVD70w
>> Anonymous
>>312850
Awesome.
>> Anonymous
Talking magpie:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc2zTAixMIQ
>> Anonymous
>>312850
oh wow
he sounds so damn human, more than any parrot does
>> Anonymous
>>312857
Somebody should start teaching them to speak like they did with Alex the gray parrot. Then when they start to teach their offspring to speak too, release them in the wild, and witness a new civilization dawning.
>> Anonymous
>>312920
You mean exactly like they have it right now, except they don't communicate in human ways?
>> Anonymous
>>313047
Pretty much. Hence new civilization rather than a civilization.
>> watch Tyler
post this i need views pleas post this link or the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwoqP1cr_Rk
>> Anonymous
>>313049
Will they wage war with the old civilizations?
>> Anonymous
>>313063
Isn't that what civilizations are all about?
>> Anonymous
>>312806

Haha, its just my garden, I live in a town, and it really isn't that nice ;)