My Parson Russell dog(Gus)had a crow as his friend. In summer they would lie sunbathing together. When I took Gus for a walk, the crow, whom I called Eric followed us everywhere. Often he would swoop down just above Gus and walk along the path through the woods just in front of us. My wife and I fed him for the last 6 years of Gus's life. Gus died in 2021. Yet Eric the crow still comes to us every day to be fed. He still likes to play with the squeaky rubber balls we bought for Gus. They used to both play with them in our garden. Eric recognises our car coming along the street. He sees it coming and lands on the fence at our driveway!

Had a crow for 25years as a pet (it couldn't t be returned to the wild )He was one of the most affectionate animals I have ever had.

We had a pet crow that lived with us when we were kids in the 70s, he had a damaged wing so couldn’t fly, he used to spend all his time with us in the car in the house, he was really friendly, his name was Charlie the crow.

A family friend had a crow he'd raised from a juvenile. He named it Chip, as in MyCrowChip. They were an unusual pair.

The Crow lifespan record is actually 57 years, for a pet Crow, which outlived 4 human companions.

good video, I love crows, I'm being followed around by two crows for years. Feeding the birds has developed into a loyal friendship. Very intelligent birds, they understand and can be trained. My two crows are the offspring of my departed crows, which I buried a few years ago. I never let them inside the house, however I find it strange they stayed close by until their death. Now the young crows left orphaned follow my car for miles while I'm out shopping. They land when they see me stop, I buy them oat muffins, then sip my coffee. It's a strong bond. I'm hoping more people will appreciate them more by having a relationship with nature, whereby spiritual connection can be achieved for greater purpose and peace.

I am loving your videos. I already know a fair bit about corvids and you did a great job of making the crow seem less negative. Its such a shame as theyre clever, loyal and playful wee things and I love them. Corvids and foxes get such bad press!

Thank you for the crow video! Here in Canada we have the American Crow. In the northwest of Calgary, there has been seen a large group (100+) of crows that gathers in the fall and winter. This could be due to the interesting fact that crows will often congregate in large numbers (sometimes up to TWO MILLION!) in winter to sleep in communal roosts (Cornell University 2015). Some of these roosts have been established for 100 years or more, and will stay in an area even after it has become urbanized (Cornell University 2015).

Brilliant video, I’ve only just discovered your channel and really like it 💚

Crows are amazing birds .Glad you hi- lighted how they work so hard rearing and teaching The young birds can try it on by demanding and to watch the mum deal with this is unreal .All the corvid family are spectacular As is your video Many thanks and greetings ★.👍.

I’ve got four crows I’ve been feeding for two years now they make sure I’m up early to give breakfast & every now & again they bring me a gift .

This was an amazing video. I have lots of these beautiful birds visit my garden. It’s just made me love them even more. Thank you for sharing.

That was brilliant, thank you! There are countless weird, wonderful and amazing birds on the planet but my favourites are the Crow family; highly intelligent and such fantastic carachters, I love them all, Jackdaws, Crows, Rooks, Magpies, all of em.

I love them, so clever and beautiful birds 🐦 😍 💕

Thank you for this wonderful video. I love these birds and love to watch them. I hear them crow often. They are beautiful 💜😁

Why can't the rest of the internet be as good as this channel!

I don't know whats up with the magpies in my area but they love to mimic a car alarm and they like to mimic a call of a common gull

Amazing vid. Appreciate the work that went into this, beautiful birds. I just began friending a family. Fascinating animal

I live in rural France,, in southern Brittany (near Nantes). We have a big garden and are very close to a big forest. The bird life is amazing, I'm starting to think that the pigeons and crows have a deal to come and eat at ours seperately. One day I open the door and the garden is full of crows, the next, it's full of pigeons. We always throw our food scraps out on the lawn and get all sorts of birds coming for breakfast. Our resident robin tries to chase them off, whilst the cat and the dog sit by idly, watching! Mornings are magical, with a garden full of birds! I'm starting to feel that the birds recognise me now, know I'm not a threat and I can get quite close to them!

Thank you. That was a moment of pleasure in a crazy world. ❤️✌️

Yet another great video! Just a suggestion; do you have (or might you possibly do) a video on the British Jay? The first time I saw one was only a few years ago (near Swansea, where I was living at the time), and didn't know what it was! But I was struck by how beautiful it was. I know it's a very nervous/skittish bird, as it would literally turn round in mid flight, if it saw me watching from the window as it flew past. 😀

I used to spend a lot of time on Bukemham Marsh ( near Norwich). It has the largest rookery,. thousands upon thousands roost there in winter. The murmurations are incredible

Great video! As An American, I watched this and other videos to compare the Carrion Crow to the American Crow. Of all crows, Carrion Crow seems the most simlar to the American Crow even more than other American species like the Fish Crow. The Carrion Crow is a slightly larger cousin, having a lower pitched voice but even gives the same rocking motion when calling. Both species even give the same rattling call. I'd love to get over to Europe to see these guys myself one day.

The most astonishing thing I've seen carrion crows do was a co-operative pizza liberation, from an overflowing bin, involving two birds hefting said food (a v large half pizza) back into its box, then several others jumping onto the sticking out bit of box, until, rather in the manner of a trebuchet, the pizza was flipped onto the ground, where they ate all the good bits, olives bacon &c and then abandoned it to the pigeons.. Very clever indeed, I thought.. 👍

I can see these videos being really interesting to non birders bringing them into the brethren. So many people think we only boring birds without colour and not worth looking at compared to other countries. Yet we have an amazing array of beautiful colourful birds and even more diverse behaviours. If we can get more people interested in birds, then more will be interested in the environment as a whole. Whilst doing crows will you be covering choughs and hooded crows? I've only ever seen one chough and the was in Lytham St Annes of all places yet I've been to South Stack, a place well known for them, a few times. SS isn’t the most accessible RSPB for disabled people though, it is what it is and as an organisation the work hard making their sites disability friendly. I’m really interested in why you only ever find hooded them in such limited areas like both sides of the Irish boarder, IoM and a tiny bit of Scotland. I think choughs are even more limited. Also have you done videos on all six members of the thrush (turdus) family found in the U.K.? I know you’ve done blackbirds. An excellent video, thank you.

I love watching crows. It's good to watch them figure stuff out. Very intelligent indeed.

I loved this video! Along with your others. Always informative and a joy to watch. Crows are one of my favourite birds, I admire their intellect and I respect them to ensure I don't get on their bad side since they can remember enemies and inform future generations of crows about them.

They are beautiful

Crows are very intelligent, and always out for what they can get. Much like humans. After I fed the group near my house for a few months, they started to appear wherever I went. When I go to the shops, there's usually a crow perched on the roof watching. They're usually waiting for an opportune moment to come pester me for food. The other day I took my dog to the park and two crows waited patiently on the grass next to us while we finished our game of fetch. One time a crow even went into my backpack and took a piece of dog food!

I Love Crows!

Love the carrion species, thanx for video

Another epic Liam, nice one👍

I saw some crows having a carry on outside my front window yesterday!

Thank you Liam. Another great video.

Fantastic birds.

Love crows❤️

I love corvids of all sorts. I swear one played peek a boo with me when landed behind a bin just out of sight. I got up and walked away ad turned to see it trying to see round the bin as if it was looking for me. I had told it off for trying to eat the contents of a dirty nappy bag.

Another brilliant informative and cheerful production, loved it.

"Good work my feathered friend. Carry on crow !"

Crows are amazing intelligent creatures 😍

Love your videos. Thanks a million.

The ability to recognise you is not restricted to carrion crows - at least in my experience, all from the crow family has this. Where I live, I usually greet the birds in a friendly tone when I see them, and I have noticed that after a while they don't flee anymore, but stay on the ground, even when I pass close by - as if they recognise that I am no threat - at least that is what I am making myself believe ;-)

Thank you so much lovely lad. ❤❤❤

Very interesting and informative. Clever birds!

Great video! I see them a lot along the canal near where I live, they swoop down and pinch the food that people feed the geese.

Nice film about the Carrion Crows! Thanks for sharing Liam and have a good weekend! // Bertil.

Another great video full of interesting facts and lovely footage!

Brilliant Liam So many things I didn’t know - an amazing bird One think I learnt last year, while watching a Greylag Geese breeding population, is that Carrion Crows are also efficient predators - we’ve seen them attacking newly fledged Jackdaws but at our local lake, we watched a pair stalk and take a Gosling. This pair decimated the goslings over a period of time - any time the parents tried to move the young between lakes the pair were waiting. I’m going to try and film this in the Spring I did get a couple of grainy photos last year of a Crow taking a Gosling Anyway, great info - learnt a lot 👍👍👍👍 Dave H

Thanks for this. I llive almost at the top of a hill in North London. Across the top of the hill is a line of enormous plane trees planted in the 1890s. They're occupied by carrion crows, magpies and other birds but the corvids dominate. They're fascinating to watch through binoculars from my balcony and are as you say really bright.

The other day a Carrion Crow I've got to know flew past my head to grab my attention ( nothing unusual with that ) and then flew to the top of a lamp post which I was walking towards - The Crow then pulled out one of its wing feathers and dropped it at my feet as I walked underneath it. It was a weird yet nice surprise. I took the feather as a souvenir.

Great work

Good stuff thank you 👍

Thankyou so much for this.

Excellent video Liam, loved it very informative.......

Great videos

Many thanks Liam, another fascinating peep at corvids! :)

Very interesting thanks 😊

Excellent,clear and concise.

Brilliant. Loved every second. Next to my parrots, the corvids really are my next favourites. 🥰🇨🇦

Once again thank for a lovely presentation

Thank you. Your vids are brill

Great channel! Thank you for all the fascinating info. I love them and find them so interesting to watch.

This one slipped in under my radar when it was published so well done for the little plug on FB. 👍🙂👍

👍🏻 birds. Got a pair nesting 🪹 next 🚪 to my back garden 🪴 in a 🌲

Fantastic birds, thank you for the great video.

An excellent channel ,,,,, enjoy it a lot thanks

I often confuse carrion crows with ravens. I think I can differentiate them from their tail plumage in flight (still a bit unconvinced) and their calls …but therein lies the rub, both are great mimics. So calls are out of the picture. Ravens are very much larger than crows - I need crow and a raven side by side to judge size and in the distance that is impossible. Fortunately I love all corvids. Birds even. Still I have heard rumours that we have ravens on the farm we live on in Bedfordshire/ Cambridgeshire but I am not convinced until I can prove it for myself. As for carrion crows and rooks - one key feature that I found easy to distinguish between them is that the rook has the naked beak reminiscent of a vulture whereas the crow has a more “polished” looking beak. Unscientific, I know but that helped me a lot.

Can you make a video about the hooded crow?

Really enjoyable videos. Thanks.

Brilliant!

Awesome 😎 thank you

good little summary

Great vid. Very informative.

Thanks for this. I have problems with idiiot farmers who kill carrion crows and rooks during lambing time. They think corvids attack lambs if ewes don't protect them, whereas I reckon they only attack stillborns and lambs that'll die soon after birth because of some physiological issue....effectively cleaning up.

i really enjoyed this video. super informative , as always. i always look forward to seeing what you will share with us. keep up the great work 😀

I love crows

Nice one

I used to shoot crows, but now I love them. They are intelligent and funny birds and once they start to trust you, they are good friends.

I live in the US so we have American crows but I have been to the Netherlands and Switzerland so I’ve seen these guys

Big like 👍

Cheeky lil things 🤗🤗❣

One of my other favourite birds. Theres a couple that live near me on a rooftop and if I talk to them they walk off.

I very often see Crows come out and attack Buzzards when they come too near to the Crow's nesting spot.

Love crows. There's a huge tree in the field by our house with a huge crows nest. The magpies try to get into their nest but the crows always chase them away.

Fabulous

Corvids are my favourites. I have a mad rook that miaouws. My greatest honour was when a pair set up a nest in my garden.

Very intelligent birds and fiercely protective of their young, have seen them fighting off Red Kites.

It’s a pity that in the area where I live - Southern Pennines - there don’t seem to be many of them about now. It seems to be Jackdaws and Magpies nowadays. There seems to have been a real shift, in this area, since the 1970s, but I’m not sure why. It’s lovely to see a Carrion Crow. I found a baby crow during the first lockdown. It was big but very light - like it was made of paper! It was a fledgeling and it was on a local pub’s car park. When it saw me it ran over to an old stone wall and stuck its head in a wide crack in the wall; it must have thought that if it couldn’t see me, then I couldn’t see it! Its mother was circling and squawking overhead. I picked it up - it was light as a feather - and I put it out of the way of any traffic and ‘yobs’, and then its mother sat in a tree above it and she went quiet. The funny thing was that when I was carrying it the 150 yards - or so - to safety, it was trying to have the best of both worlds: it was playing dead - that is what they do to make potential predators believe they’re dead, because dead carrion is not good for predators - but it was also gripping tightly onto my finger with its claws, to make sure that it didn’t fall out of my hands while I was carrying it. Animals and birds are just like children! I felt so protective of it. I hope it’s ok.

The crows near my home are very territorial. They harass the local foxes by swooping down on them and making very loud, aggressive cries to frighten them and other birds away.

Ty for the info I live my neighborhood crows. I feed them peanuts on occasion they recognize me and call me out to give them peanuts and water

Gosh you are a mine of knowledge brilliant

Ah I had one of those shells on the floor near where I live, wondered who it belonged to. We have lots of crows nearby, must have fallen out once the chick had hatched 🙂

Thank you... good job... oldster73 Michigan.

Crows also have complex language. Crows have different warning calls, which people can also learn, for Foxes, Ravens, Cats, Buzzards, Humans,, Humans with gun. We had a wild born adult visually Crow, as a family pet, for just over 10 years. She learnt to understand some English phrases & questions, but would use Crow language & miming to communicate things with us. She regarded herself as equal to everybody in the family and enjoyed being petted by people. Crows are gentle & soppy birds, when domesticated, and soon figure out how to manipulate their humans.

Crow comes daily for my cats biscuits...love seeing him

Do you see many Indian Ringneck Parrots in the wild? I spotted 4 of them at my local golf club in Birmingham and apparently they're relatively common now.

I have a rescue crow that now won’t leave she is so friendly to me but hubby is not that welcome and they are very intelligent as you said. Excellent video 👍

Carrion crows hybridised with the hooded crows, the hooded crows will hybridise with most corvids, including Ravens.The carrion crows is often found in mixed flocks of hooded crows.

In Australia many bird species breed as families with the young remaining with the parents to raise the next generation. Evolutionarily this is known as "kin selection", promoting the reproduction of closely related individuals favours the genes you share with them. It is also a method allowing these birds to breed in poor environments, where the parents alone would struggle to find sufficient food to raise the young themselves.

Love all your videos. I have a pair in the field behind the house, but don't know which is female and male. Would you know how to differentiate between both?