I had a pet crow that had been orphaned when still featherless. We raised it and love it. Our neighbor hated him and he knew it, so he would do everything he could to torment her.
That's hilarious! They are very intelligent! We have lots in Seattle, they are often in the news because they're getting so populous in some places!
I'm assuming you've seen the Youtube video of the crows in Tokyo who wait for drop nuts into traffic to have the cars crack them open, and then have learnt to wait for the crosswalk before landing and eating the nuts, and flying back up when the traffic light starts blinking?? Its a sure testament to their intelligence!
By the way, rinkmom, I have been moving semps form their old raised beds to new, deeper beds with more sand in the mix. I came across a number of semps with the leaves curled down/under. A sign of to much cloudy wet weather. It won't be long until they are back to normal now that the sun has arrived, and drier weather.
Seattle (and PNW) has a type of crow called Northwest crow, don't know exactly how it differs from other crows but they do. Anyway here at UW they have lots of studies of these crows and their behaviors so when you see these crows sometimes both legs are covered with different colored bands - one for each of the studies that they're in. A friend told me that there was one study that found that the crows with bands on their legs were finding easier (by far) times of finding mates, for some reason the crows seem to be attracted to the jewelry.
Now people are upset because most of these "banded" studies are long term so it would disrupt them to remove the bands, but naturalists are saying that this amounts to human intervention, giving the banded crows a far greater advantage over non banded crows. I find the debate quite humorous, especially since crows are omnivorous, so they are major garbage pickers! Which seems to me like human intervention
I saw a program on PBS about crows and the Seattle studies. They also studied their ability to recognize people, and the researchers were walking around in masks to test it out. Those crows will probably all have some type of psycho problems from all the studies!
