Japanese Crows -- wonderfully adaptive ....

I've seen crows here doing a similar trick with cars and chestnuts. Since the traffic is pretty light, they just use the road. There's another problem, however. They have to fight squirrels for the chestnuts after the cars have run over them.
 
luchog said:
I've seen crows here doing a similar trick with cars and chestnuts. Since the traffic is pretty light, they just use the road. There's another problem, however. They have to fight squirrels for the chestnuts after the cars have run over them.
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I love squirrel V bird fights. There was one on my lawn the other day, a grey squirrel versus a pigeon. The squirrel won, but it was well fought on the pigeon's part. I tried to photograph them but they were a little too far for the zoom.
 
jimlintott said:
While driving on our highways I've noticed crows, like other birds, munching on roadkill. When you approach them in a car most birds scatter with wild wing flapping and almost random escape routes. I've hit birds scattering. The crows simply take a couple of hops to the shoulder and stand there while you drive by.
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I've seen video of a crow fashioning a skewer from a wire to get a Cheeto from the bottom of a small cylinder. I'll post the video if I find it.

ETA: here's a link of similar behavior (pics and video): http://users.ox.ac.uk/~kgroup/tools/movies.shtml
 
tkingdoll said:
I love squirrel V bird fights. There was one on my lawn the other day, a grey squirrel versus a pigeon. The squirrel won, but it was well fought on the pigeon's part. I tried to photograph them but they were a little too far for the zoom.
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I have seen crows knock squirrels off of telphone wires, injuring or killing them. The crows then feast on the squirrelly bits.
 
I have often seen British crows drag roadkill onto the motorway hard shoulder before proceeding with butchery. They rarely take it any further, apparently recognising that the painted line marks the limit to which vehicles travel.

One of the funniest things I ever saw was a crow with a full Scotch Mutton Pie in it's beak, barely clearing a low fence at a road crossing, then dodging traffic as drivers actively braked and swerved to miss the bird.

Total chaos, but by god he was taking that pie home.
 
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That was so awesome. I just realised I haven't seen the whole Life of Birds series! Wah! Days will soon be lost!
Crows are awesome. One of my favourite animals.
 
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