now you kno! Crows are quite similar to humans isit their aging parents many y after they have left the nest and v ears nowyouknocom spookyrawr rassoey avianawareness aph-romania reallymisscoffee dansknapp stultiloquentia doctormemelordmd fangirling-so-hard-rn Crows are scaryThey use tools Can be taught to speak like parrots Have huge brains for birds like seriously their brain-to-body size ratio is equal to that of a chimpanzee They vocalize anger sadness or happiness in response to things they are scary smart at solving puzzles some crows stay with their mates until one of them dies they can remember faces SIDENOTE HERE BECAUSE HOLY SHIT They did an experiment where these guys wore masks and some of them fucked with crows Pretty soon the crows recognized the masks = douchebag But the nic

now you kno! Crows are quite similar to humans isit their aging parents many y after they have left the nest and v ears nowyouknocom spookyrawr rassoey avianawareness aph-romania reallymisscoffee dansknapp stultiloquentia doctormemelordmd fangirling-so-hard-rn Crows are scaryThey use tools Can be taught to speak like parrots Have huge brains for birds like seriously their brain-to-body size ratio is equal to that of a chimpanzee They vocalize anger sadness or happiness in response to things they are scary smart at solving puzzles some crows stay with their mates until one of them dies they can remember faces SIDENOTE HERE BECAUSE HOLY SHIT They did an experiment where these guys wore masks and some of them fucked with crows Pretty soon the crows recognized the masks = douchebag But the nice guys with masks they left alone THEN OH WE’RE NOT DONE NO SIR crows that WEREN’T EVEN IN THE EXPERIMENT AND NEVER SAW THE MASK BEFORE knew about mask-dudes and attacked them on sight THEY PASSED ON THE FUCKING INFORMATION TO THEIR CROW BUDDIES They remember places where crows were killed by farmers and change their migration patterns Guys I’m really scared of crows nowq Yeah but have you seen this A colleague of my dad’s lives next to a lake and looked out the window one morning to see a duck trapped in the ice A crow swooped down “Oh hell” she thought expecting carnage because crows are opportunists But the crow chipped at the ice with its beak until the duck was free Idk of this counts but a few crows saved me from a magpie swooping attack once they’re bros who can tell when magpies are being unreasonable and need to chill I love crows so damn much When I was fifteen I hit a pretty serious bout of depression to the point I was in my room for months Well a family of crows made a nest in a tree outside my window There were two parents and two chicks One chick was healthy and strong One was weak and had a caw like something being strained It sounded more like a rooster crowing and so my parents jokingly named him ‘Buck’Well… months passed and Buck’s sibling was taught to fly His parents focused on the sibling because the sibling was strong The father stayed behind to try and teach Buck but I saw him try to fly fail and crash to the floor His father helped him back up into the tree Every day I would watch Buck from my window until one day I opened it and started talking to him He was small and gangly and he couldn’t caw right His feathers were all over the place and I felt a kinship So I made a deal with him I told him that if he could do it if he could fly then I could find the strength to get up Well… near the end of the season after talking with him every day I finally saw him get out of the nest He went to the edge of his branch braced himself and jumped… and just before he hit the ground he soared back up into the sky I cheered harder than I ever had before That winter Buck left the area I was crestfallen I felt like I’d lost a friend But I was so damn proud of him Cut to the next spring? I’m walking up the driveway one day when suddenly I hear a sound… a broken caw I look up and Buck is sitting in a tree above my head He stared at me and puffed his feathers then hopped down in front of me and cawed again I was so damn thrilled and I told him how proud I was of him He ruffled his feathers and then soared off into his old tree That summer? I heard two broken caws One from Buck… and one from his chick Cut to ten years later? We have a family of crows who all have a very distinct caw and they come here and spend every spring summer and fall on our property Buck still greets me every spring that last reply made me wanna cry that’s so beautiful Don’t forget the Russian Crow SLEDDING DOWN A ROOF not once but twice this one morning i kept hearing really loud caws i remember it was like 5am LIKE REALLY LOUD AND ANNOYING AND AGGRESSIVE so loud that i could hear it through a closed window and i eventually went outside to check it out there was a crow on my front lawn it had an injury on its head and couldn’t fly and there were two other crows circling right above it and they were cawing like mad i tried to get close and take a better look and one of them dived super low and tried to attack me so i went back in the house and chopped some sliced raw meat and tossed it at him from a distance a few more times later very soon after they could tell i was trying to help and did not attack me i was “allowed” to walk up close and pick him up he couldn’t drink water properly so i had to dip my finger in a bowl and stick it in his mouth i did this few times a day and it went on for about a week before he disappeared i thought he recovered and left but he came back the next day and lands on me and i see him around the block quite often and he would come sit on my shoulder for a few minutes and then fly away again i feel like i’ve adopted a son Best birbs !! Mememore...