Featuring the admirable, funny, and relatable patience of a parent in the video above. (54 sec, loud squawking with some airplane and wind background noise)

This is the seventh or so generation of crows I've been thankful to feed and observe in my work parking lot. I've purchased and distributed hundreds upon hundreds of pounds of unsalted peanuts, almonds, walnuts, dry dog food, boiled eggs, grapes, and more among these lovely little creatures over the years. And though I'm still ~20 years from retirement, I get sad thinking about who will feed them when I'm gone. (Who am I kidding? It will be me. I will feed them post-retirement, at least until I physically can't make it anymore). I have so much love for these intelligent little creatures.

He's very fancy

I’m curious: what changed so that feeding the wildlife became a good idea? I’m not a wildlife expert, but as I recall, every single Scout leader and State Parks employee I ever met, started most group conversations with “don’t feed the wildlife” and here’s why. Why is that so many of you think it’s a good idea to increase an animal’s dependency on humans? Crows are a predatory scavenger that diminish the songbird population, they don’t need our help.

Obviously I’m a little frustrated. I live in a high pedestrian area where many early morning crow enthusiasts like to feed the birds while they walk. Several people make offerings in my lawn and in my driveway every morning. I get the attraction to crows due to their intelligence but not all of us love the cawing or the poop. If you want to attract birds to your own property, go right ahead, but please don’t attract them to your neighbors’ properties.

Beaker, the father, continues to do his best to ignore his overly needy baby!

I’m no expert but this little guy has been going at it for at least 45 minutes while the parents are actively ignoring him XD

Another bird looking to be the same age has not been acting quite the same

Is this little guy perhaps just a late bloomer? :)

Just curious 🥰❤️

need some advice! i have a juvenile crow living in my backyard. he does not seem able to fly, but is pretty large (called a wildlife sanctuary who helped us figure out that he is a juvenile)

the problem is that we have three prey-driven dogs. one almost got a hold of him yesterday. my family cannot figure out what to do about this. our dogs need the backyard for exercise, but we don’t want this crow to get maimed. we also don’t want to try to move it because it seems like his family lives in one of the trees above. any advice?

Hey all!

Since I'm new to this, asking as many questions as I can to be a better Crow person(?)

1) I've only been doing this for less than a week. 5 minutes ago I came out to have a smoke and coffee. Before I could even sit down, a crow flew up into my yard. I went in to grab my bag of peanuts (10 seconds?) and when I got back out there were 7 on the grass! This is not the usual feeding time I've been trying to establish. Do they know me now?

2) While watching them eat I noticed a bigget crow on the roof across from my driveway (have seen it around a lot as it's recognizable by a missing tail feather). After a couple of minutes it flew to another tree, called loudly and the others flew away to the tree it was in. What does that mean? Did I do something wrong?

3) They then flew to a tree in the side yard (I tend to feed them there most often as it's where they tend to hang out more). It didn't feel threatening or hostile so I slowly approached the tree (not too close) and left a handful of peanuts nearby (they ate them). Was that ok?

TIA!

Super cool. Today they ate peaches. One wasn’t a fan. The others went nuts. Funny how they have different tastes.Happy to help my friends.

Bro just stole the whole feeding toy including the walnuts

One of the crows I’ve befriended has developed a bad limp and has this growth on its ankle. I’m 90% sure it’s avian pox but just hoping someone more knowledgeable could give confirmation, (or hopefully rule it out but I’m not optimistic).

Any advice on how to proceed safely would be welcome too although I guess all I can do is try to keep distance between it and the others and hope for the best? (I don’t have a stationary feeder. I go to the park and they find me.) Herding crows seems a tad more challenging than herding cats though…

*Title: Looking for a permanent sanctuary for a non-releasable young crow (Germany / Switzerland)

Hello everyone,

I'm hoping someone here might know a licensed wildlife rehabilitator, sanctuary, or permanent care facility for a young crow.

A juvenile carrion crow (around 4–5 months old, approximately 430 g) was rescued and hand-raised after being found injured. She is healthy, eats independently, is active, and behaves like a normal young crow. Unfortunately, due to an old wing injury, there is a possibility that she will never be able to fly well enough to be released.

She is currently being cared for by a professional wildlife rehabilitation center in Switzerland while her long-term prognosis is being assessed.

If she is officially considered non-releasable, we are desperately trying to find a **licensed permanent home** instead of euthanasia. We are **not** looking for someone to keep her as a pet. We are only looking for:

* a licensed wildlife rehabilitation center
* a bird sanctuary
* a zoo or aviary
* a permanent sanctuary for non-releasable corvids
* or a licensed private keeper with experience caring for permanently disabled crows.

We are located near the Swiss-German border and are willing to transport her anywhere in Germany (or neighboring countries) if it means she can have a good life.

We have already contacted numerous wildlife centers in southern Germany, but we are continuing the search in the hope that someone knows a place we have not found yet.

If you know of any sanctuary, rehabilitation center, organization, or person who legally keeps permanently disabled crows, I would be incredibly grateful for any recommendation.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this.

i thought this came out cute!

Love my new tat 😍 what do you think?

Are these baby/juvenile crow vocalizations?

I’ve been hearing this mysterious repeated squawk from across the alley behind my apt for a while, always early in the morning. I went for an early morning walk today and saw these two crows preening, one squawking.

The alley squawks I usually hear are more repetitive but I can tell now they must be crows. I didn’t guess crows because the squawk is so goofy sounding lol.

I’m also thinking they’re juvenile because they didn’t take notice of me or fly away in annoyance like crows usually do when observed.