ive never seen a raven so i couldnt say; in fact I'm not sure if I've seen a rook recently. It's a pet peeve when people mistake jackdaws for crows.Ok ta yes I checked - particularly around the beak if you're close enough to see that. around 1 metre across both of themand raven even bigger.
Crows and vengeance
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Ok ta yes I checked - particularly around the beak if you're close enough to see that. around 1 metre across both of them
i think 1 metre would be at the larger end for a crow, although they definitely aren't small when you see them up close.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Jackdaws are crows. You mean carrion crows. It's a pet peeve of mine when people misname carrion crows for crows.
pedantry alive and well i see.
I tend not to judge people by their crows.
miss direct
misfungled
There is some sort of crow incident going on outside right now. Firstly, the big crow attacked my little cat (they snipe at each other on a daily basis, but today the crow dive bombed her and she was scared), now they are going nuts, squawking and flying down to the railway line (which I live next to.) Should I fear for my life? We're on a four day curfew here, perhaps they're just lording their dominance over us mere humans.
miss direct
misfungled
I can’t find my cat 
bimble
floofy
Seriously miss direct ? Is she hiding maybe?
miss direct
misfungled
I don't know 
She was scared after the crow divebombed her and had a fluffy tail like a fox. Can't go very far to look for her because we're not allowed out
If she doesn't turn up soon, I'll look out for a passing police patrol car and ask for permission to go on the street.
She was scared after the crow divebombed her and had a fluffy tail like a fox. Can't go very far to look for her because we're not allowed out If she doesn't turn up soon, I'll look out for a passing police patrol car and ask for permission to go on the street.
miss direct
misfungled
She skulked back in 
Doodler
You're quite nice when you smile
Mrs Doodler began the habit of feeding dried mealrooms to the local crow population. After a while some of the crows became bold in approaching us, wanting to be fed.
One would hop alongside us when we walked down our road. A local street drinker saw this and was impressed: "Is that your crow? Quality!"
The crows became more demanding as the months went by, and ended up gathering on our roof cawing loudly from about 6am. If you went out the front door, they'd all be peering down at you from above. It got too noisy, so we stopped giving them mealworms and eventually they left us alone.
One would hop alongside us when we walked down our road. A local street drinker saw this and was impressed: "Is that your crow? Quality!"
The crows became more demanding as the months went by, and ended up gathering on our roof cawing loudly from about 6am. If you went out the front door, they'd all be peering down at you from above. It got too noisy, so we stopped giving them mealworms and eventually they left us alone.
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platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
How do they tell each other about bad people. They must be like "that lanky bloke with stupid small green eyes and grey face hair"
must take forever to dry off, most humid place I’ve ever been
Funky_monks
Neo-Rustic
I've seen crows and ravens attack lambs, they tend to do it in different ways.
Crows sit on the back end of the ewe and if the lamb is slow being born, they have it's eyes and its tongue.
Ravens will do a little "dance" to lure a new lamb away from its mum (often when she's busy giving birth to its twin) and then beak it through the head and attack the soft parts.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Yep. And such sophisticated communication is being found far more widely, even among bees. Prairie dogs can tell each other the size, colour of clothing the people around them, and if they have a gun!
This is a nice article about the bloke who discovered this, although the article does that thing that articles of this kind invariably do and tries to come up with an alternative explanation that doesn't involve the rodents creating meaningful - and novel - utterances, seeking to reduce it instead (in a rather contrived and unlikely way) to some kind of Skinnerian conditioned response. There's an odd resistance among humans, I think - especially some Skinnerian scientists - to the idea of anything even approaching language in other animals. Are people threatened by the idea?
Can Prairie Dogs Talk?
I have two Crow's who seem to have taken up residence outside my mini (Poundland) nature reserve.
Have named rhem Corvid19 and Corvid20
Chucked them some bits of a Peperami Firestick out the kitchen window a month back and a few meat morsels from time to time.
Now they have started arriving at roughly the same times mid morning and mid afternoon expecting more! They sit staring and caw caw at me.
Menacing
Have named rhem Corvid19 and Corvid20
Chucked them some bits of a Peperami Firestick out the kitchen window a month back and a few meat morsels from time to time.
Now they have started arriving at roughly the same times mid morning and mid afternoon expecting more! They sit staring and caw caw at me.
Menacing
danski
"vibey"
Treat em right and they’ll always have your back!I have two Crow's who seem to have taken up residence outside my mini (Poundland) nature reserve.
Have named rhem Corvid19 and Corvid20
Chucked them some bits of a Peperami Firestick out the kitchen window a month back and a few meat morsels from time to time.
Now they have started arriving at roughly the same times mid morning and mid afternoon expecting more! They sit staring and caw caw at me.
Menacing
How cool would that be, to have a guard of crows?
That would complete me.
I would be the CrowMan and the local ruffians would fear my wrath
CROW'S ASSEMBLE
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