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Crows are Smart,

scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
edited January 2012 in General Discussion
I can go out on my back deck and watch the crows in my yard. they hardly give me a second thought but the second I even think about getting a .22 for some target practice it's like they can read my mind and vacate quickly. I have never shot at any of them [:0]
So I saw this Video. It shows a crow snowboarding on his own, just for fun. and when he is done, he takes his smowboard with him. he even tries it on a diffeent slope and when it dsoesn't work, he comes back. This is wild!

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8402389/crow-filmed-using-lid-as-snowboard
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  • savage170savage170 Member Posts: 37,569 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This one is pretty good too.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efcIsve5wu8&feature=related
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932 ✭
    edited November -1
    Birds are very smart. Crows can live to be 100 yrs old and never get hit by a car eating roadkill.
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  • pingjockeypingjockey Member Posts: 1,879 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I remember an old article by iirc Ed Zern on hunting crows. They can
    be fooled using advanced math![:D][:D]
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  • edgecamedgecam Member Posts: 3,280
    edited November -1
    If you open a window just enough to stick the barrel out they never know what hit them.


    CAUTION make sure you pick up all the empty shells or your wife will get mad
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  • oldemagicsoldemagics Member Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    starlings are just as bad as the crows here
    walk all over the place and they just sit, by the time you clear the door with a gun they all take off
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    My pop told me, years ago that, if U split the end of their tongue,they can actually "talk"...
    I doubt it's true.
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  • woodhogwoodhog Member Posts: 13,115 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Crow speaks with forked tongue... yes,...I think I remember hearing that somewhere...
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  • wvhuntwvhunt Member Posts: 822 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This got my laughing, on a school trip in my forestry and agriculture class in high school we visited the local dump to see how they were using the methane being collected.....anyways the guy said how the crows are the biggest problem with the dump as they scatter and carry off trash off sight however he was beginning to shoot the crows to limit the numbers. The gentleman said however the crows had gotten used to his truck and fly off at the sight of it; some smart * said from the back of the bus well why don't you drive another truck you dumb *!!! Its funny the little things we remember.
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  • HandLoadHandLoad Member Posts: 15,998 ✭
    edited November -1
    I worked on container cranes for many years. One year, we had a long break between Work times, and it was in the Spring. Crows had built two nests and laid eggs in them, right on the raised boom of the cranes. I told one of my crew to go and dump the nests off. The Crows attacked him mercilessly, and repeatedly, flying at him from behind, and scratching and clawing at his Hardhat! For the next Three Years, Crows would harry Louie every time he climbed the Cranes!!! Didn't bother anyone else, but they Hated Poor Louie!
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  • SpartacusSpartacus Member Posts: 14,415
    edited November -1
    had a "family' of 'em here that would grab fresh brass of the ground. they only wanted the shiny shells. never did figure out what they did with 'em.....


    tom
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  • roswellnativeroswellnative Member Posts: 10,195 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Crows will fly to a gunshot...
    Although always described as a cowboy, Roswellnative generally acts as a righter of wrongs or bodyguard of some sort, where he excels thanks to his resourcefulness and incredible gun prowesses.
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  • Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,080 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I saw something on TV about them that said they were a LOT smarter than other birds....if most birds were as smart as a 2 year old a crow is the equivalent of a 17 year old. It showed them dropping nuts onto the road for the cars to run over and break the shell....and waiting on the traffic lights to stop traffic so they could collect the meat. They didn't just drop the nuts in the lane of traffic, but knew right where to drop them so that when the lights changed they had time to get in there and get out without any hassle. Crazy stuff there....
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I remember from an article written years ago that crows can count to six.
    Seven hunters go to a crow roost and the crows fly off.
    Six hunters leave and the crows return.
    The remaining hunter bops them off.
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932 ✭
    edited November -1
    We used to hunt them when we were young. You never shoot the first one to come to the call. He goes back and gets the rest of them.
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  • JimmyJackJimmyJack Member Posts: 5,515 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They had a crow called Jimmy that actually talked when I was a kid. I think it was in the Dells in Wisconsin.
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  • NOSLEEPNOSLEEP Member Posts: 4,526
    edited November -1
    Cool video. I think Magpie's are about as smart.
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  • leadlead Member Posts: 2,311 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I remember seeing a British show that showed crows figuring out how to unscrew a bottle that had food in it. Their problem solving skills were pretty impressive.
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  • scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Spartacus
    had a "family' of 'em here that would grab fresh brass of the ground. they only wanted the shiny shells. never did figure out what they did with 'em.....


    tom

    I'd be careful, they probably re-load their own? [:D]
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There were several crows foraging in a pasture across the road from my house which made them very visible. After we shot two(210 and 260 yards BTW), I haven't seen a crow land in that field for over a week. On numerous occasions, I've been right at the point of squeezing the trigger when a crow would simply fly away like there was some premonition that the rifle was pointed at that particular bird.
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  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Several years ago ice fishermen in one of the Nordic countries complained to the police that somebody was stealing fish from their tip ups. The police put out a video camera and caught crows pulling up the fishing lines with their beaks and claws then eating the fish.
    Smart birds.
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  • chollagardenschollagardens Member Posts: 4,614 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not smart just funny. My youngest son and I pulled into a parking space at the local K Mart. Directly in front of us was a parked BMW with a crow on the roof. I jokeingly said "Hi, I'm a crow and I'm going to poop in this BMW". The crow looked directly at me, walked over to the edge of the open BMW sun roof and turned around and let go.[:D]
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  • FEENIXFEENIX Member Posts: 10,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by savage170
    This one is pretty good too.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efcIsve5wu8&feature=related


    ... and this too!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofjo26O0z_o&feature=fvwp&NR=1
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  • Riomouse911Riomouse911 Member Posts: 3,492 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't like them much. My first house was two over from another that had a huge pine tree in the rear yard. There was a murder of about 60 of the caw-caw bastages that roosted in that thing every night. Their morning and evening racket drove everyone nuts in the area, but like the pigeons that infest the city like rats with wings there was nuthin we could do about them.
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  • toolmaniamtoolmaniam Member Posts: 3,213
    edited November -1
    Crows are smart birds. When we hunt them they always send out a scout to check the situation out. Like someone else said, never shoot the scout because he goes back and rallies the troops. One thing a crow has a weakness for and thats a owl decoy. We put one in the tree and attach a fishing line to it so we can make it move. The crows go bananas over it and lose some of their better senses. I've shot crows swooping on the decoy and the other ones must of thought the owl put it on him. They were more at a fever pitch than before.
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  • JunkballerJunkballer Member Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My grandaddy always said crow were very smart, he said it was common for them to hold "court" while sitting in trees and ban one (who sat alone on a different limb) of their own from the flock for wrong doing. Also claimed to have accutually wittnessed this when he was young and hunting down in the woods. I'm a believer, seen them do some amazing things myself.

    "Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee

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  • countryfarmercountryfarmer Member Posts: 4,552
    edited November -1
    I attempted to hunt them whe I was younger, the crows won, I never did get close enough to them.
    I leave them alone now because we just have a few around here and no visible damage. I HATE starlings and the messes they make.
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  • JunkballerJunkballer Member Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Its strange but for some reason a crow is the only bird my Lab Retriever will not pick up, the hair on her back raises and she just circles it like its something dangerous.

    "Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee

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  • CSI21CSI21 Member Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The owl decoy does work, and dont shoot the first like they said, but after they start coming pop them as hard as you can. They also dont taste bad if you want to try them out. In some of the more rural black communitys, folks will line up for starlings and crows for thier family.
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  • scrumpyjackscrumpyjack Member Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you think crows are smart...watch out for some ravens


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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,565 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by fishkiller41
    My pop told me, years ago that, if U split the end of their tongue,they can actually "talk"...
    I doubt it's true.


    My cousin tommy tried it. It didnt work. He found this crow as a baby in the back yard and split its tongue. Never did talk but he had that bird for years.
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  • scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by scrumpyjack
    If you think crows are smart...watch out for some ravens


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    The ravens have ruined more than one stalk on game for me. They get out in front of me and Kaw all the way along. As for them seeing a gun, coyotes will even run when they SEE a gun. I was talking about them hanging around the yard til the thought comes into my head to get a gun.
    It's like they can read my mind...after all, how else would they know I wasn't going to shoot them when I was stalking an elk or moose. I always have a rifle then....
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  • toughdaddytoughdaddy Member Posts: 39 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by edgecam
    If you open a window just enough to stick the barrel out they never know what hit them.


    CAUTION make sure you pick up all the empty shells or your wife will get mad
    I sniper them from my bathroom window.Got one at 169 yards![:)]
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  • jltrentjltrent Member Posts: 9,344 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They took about half of my garden corn up a few years ago, until I nailed one of them and hung him on a stick in the middle of my garden. I don't think I have seen another crow in my garden since then. They are pretty smart it seems.
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