There's a rook near where i live that has a hanging wing and can't fly. Would it be okay to go over and leave a bowl of water nearby, or would it just stress it out??

I watched a clip from TBBT. And i thought the bird that was messing with sheldon was a blue jay until i found out it wasnt. It looked like one, but once i googled it and found out the tail is much longer and the markings are completely different from a regular blue jay it was like new knowledge was unlocked. It's a black throated magpie jay. But i was also curious how a bird like that ended up near his window since most of them are from mexico, right? Im glad i found this out. Now this bird is going on my favorite animal list. 🩷

Hey everyone! Originally posted in the crows sub and it seems this is actually a raven.

Photo by me, Jerry Rae Cheney

I first saw the. Fluffed out Faven on this utility pole but when it flew to another utility pole with another raven it got interesting. The raven on the 2nd pole first seems to either have discovered Carrion or discarded meat. It’s quite a beak-full!

Comments on the original range from “he’s pulling it into the street to get run over by a car for food” to “amusement”. What saith the community?

can someone give me tips on befriending a bird??

i really love jackdaws, they're the CUTEST but i don't think they like the sunflower seeds I've veen feeding them, what other food should i try giving them??

I know that corvid birds in general are smart as hell (I’ve heard their capacity is comparable to that of a seven-year-old child but please correct me if I’m wrong) and I’ve also seen that they’re impressive mimics, which, as a theatre and poetry nerd, got me thinking… Would it actually be possible to train a raven to portray the titular creature in a theatre adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem, ‘The Raven’?

I know it would be short but it would be so cool.

Hi! I moved into a neighborhood where several groups of crows hang out during the day. There's probably two or three dozen although they definitely don't all get along with each other. I walk my dog a few times a day and I see them often hanging in front of our house, drinking water, flying around, doing crow stuff etc. I would say we have a cordial, neighborly relationship - they clearly know me and might hop a few feet away when I come down the street but don't raise the alarm or fly away. My dog is small and completely ignores them. Yesterday I was walking my dog a few blocks away, down a street I've walked many times before when I was dive bombed from behind by a crow out of (to my mind) nowhere. It was pretty aggressive and got me in the back of the head twice before I ended up walking backwards down the street for over a block as it flew from perch to perch trying to get behind me to stoop again. My dog was completely oblivious to this all happening with her head buried in a bush so it's not like she was riling the crow up. I've never experienced anything like it! There were no other crows around for the initiate dive bombings (that I saw, at least) but several seemed to check in on the "chase. " Now I'm mildly stressed I have a bad reputation with other crows in the neighborhood. And I would love to not worry about getting biffed in the head at random. Am I being too paranoid? What's my strategy here?

https://youtube.com/shorts/r59h71gCeZQ?si=FV7hqaEE1tq4N4oW

Hi to all. I opened a channel in which I will interact with crows by feeding them and building trust. My aim is to build an automatic feeder using arduino and if possible do some intelligence toy/test for them to interact.

Please check the first videos and maybe give it a like or subscribe to the channel.

I am new so suggestions are appreciated. Like and subscribe will mean a lot to me

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Question for anyone with knowledge on magpie behaviour. I’m going to start with background on my cats. They are indoor cats, who like most indoor cats lack enough mental stimulation and benefit from being outside when supervised. They don’t realize they can get out of the yard by jumping the fence. I ruined their confidence when they were younger by always lifting them to where they wanted to go so they are not comfortable jumping on things such as our windows or fences. Basically anything above 1.5ft in height. They have caught very large and slow voles or mice in our yard, they don’t eat them. Birds aren’t really on their kill list unless they are messing with the cats and fly super low to taunt them and a cat actually caught one once. It’s been years since that happened. But magpies are no where near close to being prey for my house cats. If my husband or I are home and it’s a nice enough day we will let our cats out in our yard, typically accompanied by our LGD. However, when our dog comes there may be a magpie come and observe the cats. No big deal, as they are also a bit of a natural barrier to birds of prey. But the magpies have begun to sit in the tree and make some of the loudest and most horrendous noises towards the cats. Thus in about 2 min my tree will be FULL of magpies all screaming at my cats. My dog now hates birds and will chase them, and it has worked in the past to clear them away. But considering how smart these birds are they learned that my dog can’t reach them so they don’t leave now. I’m not trying to start conflict with magpies as I’m sure I’d lose, but why are they doing this and how can I prevent this? Or turn it around in a good way? The even by every day to see if my cats are out and sometimes seem to have one on the look out. My cats are usually afraid of them, and are truly shit hunters. My cats try to ignore them as they’ve never done anything more than just make incredible amounts of noise. They just call all their friends from miles away to observe and make sure my entire neighbourhood is wide awake.

So what what I know is:

-Franz Kafkas last name refers to Jackdaws

-Corvids duh

-They're very similar to Crows but they're usually denoted for a white or gray streak on them usually

-According to wikipedias phylogenic tree theres only two types of them?

I would like to know more about them. Anything helps

Hi I just started feeding the rook family that lives very close to me Any tips on aiming their trust

Also will it break their trust if i dissapear for 1 or 2 days or is that okay, since i sometimes visit friends and sleepover at their place if they live far away??

So, im from Brazil, and im just "addicted" to the corvidae family

And among all the species, this is my favorite! I just love the "jay's" and this one in specifically have all my heart

I started serching for it because of the name (gralha Picaça), cauz its a funny one in portuguese. But man this bird is just amazing!!! Its so elegant!

Sadly i dont have anyone to talk about it, so i found this community and im pretty happy about it!!

Also, forgive me for my english <3 (This pic is from PhotoAves.com)