Crow behavior
Sep. 20th, 2015 10:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
untonugganSorry for so many posts today, but I keep meaning to mention this because I think it would interest some of you. Then I forget because it happens so often.
We have a bird bath outside. Almost daily, someone has to fish out a soggy piece of bread. We finally figured out that someone nearby must be leaving out stale bread for local wildlife, and the local crows take it to our birdfeeder and let it soak *just enough* that it is the right consistancy for them. They then break it up amongst themselves -- possibly accompanied with fending off the grackle population -- but usually leave a bit behind.
I'm not sure why they leave a bit behind? Maybe it gets too soft at that point? They leave a certain piece of the bread? IDK.
But yeah. I also don't know if this counts as "tool use" officially, or just "more smart crow behavior."
We have a bird bath outside. Almost daily, someone has to fish out a soggy piece of bread. We finally figured out that someone nearby must be leaving out stale bread for local wildlife, and the local crows take it to our birdfeeder and let it soak *just enough* that it is the right consistancy for them. They then break it up amongst themselves -- possibly accompanied with fending off the grackle population -- but usually leave a bit behind.
I'm not sure why they leave a bit behind? Maybe it gets too soft at that point? They leave a certain piece of the bread? IDK.
But yeah. I also don't know if this counts as "tool use" officially, or just "more smart crow behavior."
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Date: 2015-09-21 05:42 pm (UTC)There isn't such a thing marketed ready-made, but I'm going to put up a large flat surface somewhere stable so they can have peanuts etc. for their very own. (Like a bird-table, but bolted down or something because a freestanding one would blow over here.)
The crows here are perfectly happy to eat off the ground... but so is the dog. wry g