Eight year-old girl gets gifts from crows for feeding them!

Aw wow that is so cool. I know crows are scavengers but never knew of a bird bringing gifts. Thanks for sharing this!

I love crows. One of my favorite things to observe is when they fly up and drop walnuts on the road over and over again.

Mind you I love almost every animal in my neighborhood because let's face it, they are amazing.

That is a cool story! Thanks

darn cheap ass chickadees.

Crows try to outdo and impress other by collecting bright shiny things and showing off their stashes.

These bling birds are so intelligent it's uncanny.

Here the started to steal Cloth-Hanger for their Nests,
the Trees started to change lately


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The Crows here are really big because of the Food,
we call them "Anabolica Crows"!

Birds can do some clever things, and I don't know how they do it exactly but they can tell what you're thinking.

One of the most amazing stories I ever heard was about some sparrows that stole money and used it to buy snacks out of vending machines. I can't find anything about this specific instance, but a google search of "birds ,vending machines" yields some result about crows using vending machines.Birds can be mischievous and damned right mean sometimes, and they can also be helpful. When you're out fishing and you hear a hawk calling for instance you can bet if you follow that call it will lead you to whatever fish you're trying to catch.

Maybe they just set down the object so they could eat -- and then forgot to pick it up again before they flew off.

I have a theory about how birds can be so smart, and it goes something like this. Imagine if each birds brain was an element of a network working together, somehow interfacing with each other through some form of "bird Ethernet"?

If you've ever watched a large flock of birds flying you've no doubt noticed that they make turns in unison, as if reacting in a common conscious.

As a child I figured out early on that they could tell what you were thinking, if you had any mischief in mind for them they were nowhere to be seen, but if you were attempting to help them with food or to drive predators away like cats, they appreciated it and let you know by coming very close to you and looking at you, following you about and calling, as if to say thank you.

No, they are obviously doing it on purpose

If it were a few items, it could be coincidence, but these birds are making it crystal clear what they are doing by leaving so many trinkets that they themselves value. It is possible if not likely that crows actually have a form of currency. We know they value these objects and use them to gain favor from other crows. Does that sound familiar?

Wow so amazing. This gives me hope for the planet and humanity. Why can't we just live in peace.

Yes! Like cats catch rodents and leave them as a gift on the steps.

krows are kool

I think cats are smart enough to realize that humans appreciate them killing rodents, so they show off their kills. Over the centuries the primary reason for keeping cats was to rid a house of pests, and the cats that were best at it undoubtedly passed on their genes. maybe part of it was getting credit for their efficiency and being allowed to stay indoors.

If you scold one it won't ever do ti again, but if you than them they will repeat it often. They know you don't want it.

Thats sweet, dont usually hear of to many positive crow storys, usually there attacking and pecking people to death..

It's too bad the native americans no longer own any valuable land. She has enough there to trade for another Manhattan Island at least.

yes, my yard is filled with many squirrels, birds, rabbits, etc...I just love it....feed them every day

I am grateful they alerted me to a coyote.

oh gosh, yes! My cat Mitty Kitty did that often...bringing me "gifts" home...one time it was a baby rabbit, nearly broke my heart!

Awesome story. Thanks!

The amazing thing is that this surprises anybody.

Nature notices you.

I whistle at birds and they know me.

You can make them respond and change their behavior.

Not only that, when the birds know you, they introduce you to the other animals in the woods.

They can even tell you where to find food. I was walking through the woods one day, casually communicating with the birds along the way, when suddenly a lot of them gathered (various species) and started tweeting at me. I paused and whistled back, wondering what they were making such a fuss about.

After giving it some thought, I moved uphill in the direction they were indicating and found a hidden field full of ripe berries. The birds weren't eating any of the berries, apparently having no interest in them. But I had lunch.

They stopped tweeting at me when they saw me heading in the direction of the berry field, and they mostly dispersed.

From their behavior, I was sure they had gathered there around me on the trail to inform me of it.

Most people haven't got a clue about nature.

True, but maybe Crows are smart enough to realize what people value as well? They can mimic human speech, something cats can't do.

If you think bad thoughts about them they will pester the fuck out of you, I know that. I've never heard of anyone being attacked by crows, but I have seen seagulls attack kids to steal their snacks. WHen i was a kid we used to "fish" for them with a rod an reel and a minnow with a hook hidden in it, reel 'em in and ring their fucking necks.

I've been doing the same thing for years now & I GET DIDDLY SQUAT!!!

Actually, I don't think we have crows here, someone told me we only have Ravens

I like Magpies, one particular one of a group comes right up to me to say hello,

Still pissed at my tight ass crows though!!!

So awesome!! Thanks for the inspiration to listen more closely.

It's called Morphic resonance,

google it! I think a guy named Rupert Sheldrake wrote a book on it!

The robins who live here make a big fuss when the little screech owl comes in to roost, and try to get us to come out to chase it away. Last year they flew back and forth right on top of my husband and then flew into the shed where it was roosting to show him where it was. When he didn't get it to go away, they lurked around waiting for me to come out, and do the same thing. I try to get it to move but it just looks at me. The birds and I are disappointed. I am much better at chasing away cats for them.

I don't like the owl because it makes awful messes where it roosts. They don't because it eats their babies.

Growing up we had a pet crow in the house.

My brother found it in the woods when it was too small to fly and we brought it home and we raised it. After it grew it would fly around the house and only poop on newspaper we put down for it.It would also ride on our shoulders.

It was a very smart bird. When we gave it food to eat (raw hamburger)sometimes it would try to hide it behind your ears or in the couch to come back for a snack later.
It would imitate speech ("Hello"), the toilet flushing and laughter.

It considered my brother its father. He and the crow would sit together and look at the newspaper and the crow would peck the eyes out of the pictures of all of the people on the page.

It battled with the cat. One time I saw it fly off, get a beak full of water, wait at the top of the stairs and when the cat was under it dump the water on it's head.

It eventually became more and more interested in the outdoors as it grew older. We would let it fly outside and over time it came back less and less.

Finally it flew away for good but for years after that every once in a while you could hear a laughing crow fly over the house.

That is cool.