The fascinating intelligence of birds | Auguste von Bayern | TEDxTUM
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- Did you know that despite expressions such as "bird-brain", birds are very intelligent creatures? To demonstrate this, Auguste von Bayern brings Dohli, a jackdaw who is very close to her, on stage to be the first corvid ever to appear in a TEDx talk. She goes on to explain how certain bird species can innovate, reason, and even make novel tools to accomplish their goals - all with Dohli watching (and complaining!) first from her shoulder, and then from the back of the auditorium.
Auguste von Bayern is a zoologist who seeks to understand how animals, in particular corvids (birds of the crow family) and parrots think. Her research interests comprise socio-cognitive abilities as well as flexible problem-solving skills and vocal learning abilities of these birds. Auguste has been fascinated by wild animals and animal behavior since childhood. Inspired by scientists such as Jane Goodall and Konrad Lorenz, she raised Canadian geese from the egg and studied their behavior from the moment of hatching when she was still at school.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
Once, a raven flew by me with a pecan and kept dropping it near me. So I cracked it open and the raven immediately took it and left.
Adam: Crow's can be trained to drop found coins in a feeder for a bit of food. Train 1 crow, he trains the locals by example. Believe a feeder collects about $30. a month. Put 10 on roofs spread around busy spots of town and 'UREEKA' almost $300. a month in untaxed income. Now if you can teach them to not drop pennies. LOL.
Like the raven ,you perceive w/o reasoning.
Nice!
That was good of you because ravens/ crows have been observed using traffic to do this; They'll take nuts to a road and drop them where they know cars travel. They wait for a car to pass and run over the nut, cracking it, allowing them to get at the inside bits. Not the safest thing for crows/ ravens to do, so I'm glad this one trained humans to do it more safely :)
did it ever come back to do something nice for you?
A friend, whilst decorating a house, used to take his lunch by a pond in the garden. He noticed tadpoles within it so he threw in a morsel of bread. The tadpoles swarmed around to eat it. He noticed he was being keenly observed by a crow and was later surprised to see it bring pieces of bread and drop them in the pond so that it could feed on the tadpoles it would attract.
She has my respect for her willingness to put herself in obviously an uncomfortable position for her love of corvids
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@Patrick Collin instablaster =)
Agreed, Mickey. It takes a lot of courage for her to stand up there and make this presentation in English, which is obviously not her native language!
@@deanjerome1981 lmao lamest promotion I've ever seen. Let me guess Patrick Collin is supposed to be thought of as a different person than you?😅
"We are the only species that can fully foresee the consequences for our own actions. As a consequence, we are also the only species that carries the full responsibility for our own actions. Therefore, my appeal to you is - if you want to be different, then show it, and take responsibility for your actions for the sake of this planet and all species living on it."
Wonderful quote 👏👏👏
Nicole Furlan you say we are the only speices can you be more specific, What speices are referring are you referring to?
Nicole Furlan indeed. We humans have also the ability to choose how we act, what we do , what we eat, how we treat others and the planets creatures
Nicole Furlan Humans don't come close to "fully foresee the consequences of our actions", not by far!
That's a mental self deception, also know as an illusion. What we do is attempt to strike a working balance between caution and risk, and we do so within the various limits of our individual limitations and through collectively debating and deciding.
(Yes, we're in a faze of political decline and attempted censorship, I know, but at some levels we still must make collective decision)
Striking a working balance between risk and the foreseeable is in no essential way different from what other animals do.
Off the cuff I'd say that our most significant trait might be drawing, written language, our abstract monetary system and our extremely specialized weapons - but the latter two are probably just derivatives of the former...
Riccardo Manuel La Rosa We vote.
Riccardo Manuel La Rosa How is voting not collective? It feel like we have different definitions of the word...
Princess Augusta von Bayern of Bavaria. She's amazingly down to earth, adorably shy and soft spoken, and has a Doctorate in her field of research. It's good to know the Corvids have as good a representative as her to champion their cause.
Amazing talk! People need to see how intelligent and interesting Corvids can be.
Corvids are more intelligent and interesting than animal-worshippers.
@@Pystoria Only man has intelligence.
@Sith'ari Azithoth No, she is a princess. She is the great-great granddaughter of the last King of Bavaria, Ludwig III (1845-1921) King 1913-1918
"von Bayern" means "of Bavaria", so you don't have to use them both! 😉
How can somebody with a username using the word angry say such a sweet thing? Thanks for the info. ;)
i've seen crows put nuts on the centre of the road while traffic lights are on and then wait for cars to go over them and crack them
Have you seen the Ted talk with the guy -- first name is Joshua I think -- who showed how a crow got a piece of meat out of a tube? Watch that one, it made me jaw drop when I first saw it.
Years and years ago, I was sitting inside the passenger side of my mother's car, gazing out the window at two large trucks that happened to be parked in front of me. They both had jutting mirrors on both sides, and the right side mirror of one nearly touched the left side mirror of the other. In a streak, a swallow passed above, ducked, cut as closely as possible under the mirrors, then up again, and like a shot flew away. I was just a young teen but it was as clear as anything I could know that the bird did that for fun, because there was absolutely no practical reason to take that risk. Ever since, I've been fascinated by birds of every kind.
I felt so bad for her losing the bird right at the beginning. She seemed really shy and put off by the whole thing - but powered through and gave a fantastic presentation.
Not to mention Tuli provided a well timed source of comic relief to keep engagement!
she suffered separation anxiety for sure:)
Most definitely. The concern in her eyes as she looked up and scanned the rear of the auditorium toward the end of the video was sad but sweet, she was obviously very concerned.
Excellent (Ausgezeichnet), fascinating presentation.
i once felt that way about a certain German Short-haired Pointer named "Gus" lol
Agreed wholeheartedly ! You can tell she is a really genuine person, a princess presenting in a foreign language no less.
She believes she is better than the bird.
I noticed something the other day with crows, i have a rottweiler who is very overly enthusiastic about life and wants to investigate everything so he saw some birds in one of the trees in my yard and went galloping like a freaking horse racing up to the tree and all the other birds who were higher up and clearly at a safe distance still panicked and flew away, yet the crow who was only a couple feet away from my dogs jumping height remained on his lower branch completely unphased and then only after a few minutes of sitting there looking bored while my dog tried to jump higher, the bird finally flew away at its own convenience as if mocking my dog. It understood perfectly well that it was safe while other birds 10 feet higher or so still fled. So it seems to have a good concept of not only the size of the potential threat but how high it can jump and within a moment calculated it had nothing to worry about.
Curiosity was probably the driving force, not lack of anxiety. Corvids and very inquisitive birds. They want to investigate everything.
> So it seems to have a good concept
Sense, not concept. Concepts are of units.
I have read reports of crows staying still in the trees when a hunter / a forester approaches without a rifle, but fleeing immediately when they see the very same person at a distance, carrying a rifle on their shoulder.
I bet it was a raven rather then a crow, ravens tend to be smoother and calmer, less high pitch, less nervous, anyhow :P
Often when driving on the motorway I notice crows eating road kill. As soon as any car comes along the crows simply hop to the side of the road just onto the other side of the road marking the slow lane. Then, once the car passes they go back eating. They have literally learned that cars won't cross the road lines/markings and that they are safe
She forgot to mention she's also a princess of bavaria
Because it is not important for her research or her brilliant ability to give this talk ;)
Ok but so what
Best princess ever.
Well, I figure it would distract from the focus of the speech. It was about birds, not her position of royalty/power. She wanted people to think about what she said based on how she presented the facts, not based on her position of power.
Why would anyone care if she said that? She didint come to say who she is but she came to speak about birds...
It's obvious the crow was thinking 'your voice is all over the place, I'm gonna go check it out'
Stone Cold Cronin Fan And perhaps 'escape his own current natural limitations' of that room?
That's a jackdaw
Interesting. I hadn't considered that the sound system of the room might have confused her.
She did a great job considering that she’s doing a public talk in a second language and has the distraction of having her bird on her hand and then having the bird on the loose. Her bird was heckling her during most of her talk....lol
My belief is that there is no line between us humans & animals. Animals have emotions exactly like us. Their lives MATTER. WE ARE EQUALS & ALL ANIMALS DESERVE OUR RESPECT..
They are equal to you.
@Berserker I am equal to me. I matter to me.
"animal" comes from "having breath/moved by a soul", from the root word anima (breath/soul)
for instance, to animate is to instill a soul into something, to give it breath, make it alive
of course we all are animals, humans are just a kind of animal
you don't have to "believe" anything when you can know it for sure
Only man reasons.
@@TeaParty1776 you say that after you watched a video demonstrating the problem solving abilities of birds
you talk about reasoning yet you do no reasoning
Ask any dog or cat owner and they'll tell you that animals think, communicate and have feelings/ emotions.
Not sure why so many think animals are like moving vegetables or something.
@@karstentopp And they're not incapable of reason. They can do more than just be trained to do amusing tricks for us. When my dog is bored he starts taking books out of the bookshelf to get attention.
.nobody familiar with animals thinks that negative,. but corvid birds are special
they're tremendously intelligent, also relatively comfortable around us and tameable
You clearly didn't pay attention
Birds are awesome, I have observed many intelligent behaviours in my pet chickens over the years, everything from looking round the back of my laptop to see what may be causing the live images on the screen, one of my female turkeys did this too, saw the screen and immediately moved her head to check around the back. I had a chicken who was sleeping behind a curtain and when I pulled it open to let her know it was getting up time she grabbed the curtain with her beak and pulled it back again
> intelligent behaviours in my pet chickens
you can hypnotize chickens with bits of food in a straight line.
Love chickens. Had 19 of them and they were fascinating
That's so cool!!
I had a parrot who was such a fussy eater. I tried to tempt him like a child by tasting the food and saying " mmm, so good" and put the food up to his beak. With his beak, he proceeded to push the food toward me and said"mmm". All I could do is laugh.
Then, I adopted for him a girl parrot. She ate anything. Suddenly he was eating everything.
Many conclusions can be drawn from his behavior. I was just grateful that he was eating a good variety to stay healthy.
very brave performance, thanks for your presentation and courage to take us into your world of discoveries!
Great talk, the only thing missing is ... I wanted to watch the fun of retrieving Dohli at the end. ;0)
I can tell you about that - it involved tasty worms and staying in the lecture hall for quite some time after the event, with Auguste trying different bird calls. Dohli came back safe and sound :)
I l ove crows. They are very smart and social. I hope she got her crow back safely
Corvids are amazing. Big respect for Princess Auguste doing a TED Talk especially in her second language
I hand reared a Magpie,Jason,when I was a kid and it was so amazing.
I always wanted to go on to hand rear a Jackdaw who they say are even more intelligent and whacky.
The idea with Jason was always to allow him to return to the wild at his own pace ,which he did over a 2 to 3 year period, giving us all so much comedy value and sharing his mind blowing abilities like meeting my train back from school!!! Mad eh?
Gus Hutchinson hi. I had a Jackdaw for about 10 year's. she was fantastic. sadly she died after 10 year's. last summer in fact. she was crazy. funny. but very interesting and intelligent. I kept her in a big shed and aviary with my pigeons and chicken. she could go out whenever she wanted. but she always Chose to come back. if ever you get the chance to get a baby Jackdaw then grab that chance. I'm not saying take one from the nest but if you know where some nest then have a look around because nearly always find at least one that has fallen from its nest. 👍
I live on the Island of Newfoundland, and my father told me when he was a kid, they used to catch young crows and tame them as pets because they couldn’t afford Canaries or other birds like Parrots. (And honestly, with our weather, I don’t think those species would’ve survived pre-whole house heating) They taught these Crows to talk and mimic. Mind you I don’t think “taught” would be a good term for them. Their so smart that I think they taught THEMSELVES to say what people wanted them too simply because they knew they’d get treats/food. They used to house them in chicken coops at night, but during the day they used to keep them on their forearms or shoulders with a tie down. Although, Dad said they hardly ever flew away until they became breeding age, which when they got that age, they’d release them. But the crows that HAD been pets routinely stayed in the area of the houses because they knew food was there.
What baffles me is how long it's taken the scientific community to figure out what those of us who work hand and hand with live animals have been saying all along. Animals are surprisingly smarter than what the scientific community gave them credit for. Brain size has very little to do with it.
We don't give other animals the credit they deserve... we use the term "animal instinct" rather then admit they have certain levels of intelligence. I really doubt we would have survived as a species if it wasn't for dogs befriending us.
and you also know that many people who work hand in hand with live animals often tend to anthropomorphize the animals.
not the size, its the density. and the scientific community where the first who credited animals for their intelligence.
Maybe because scientific community follows facts, not personal preferences.
theravendiaries brain size 100% does matter. Brain size relative to body size of course but nonetheless it still matters
Grizzoh well..they didn't "domesticate" us..not at all.
Auguste, that must have been so difficult trying to give a talk with your little friend getting noisy. I wish you had shown the video about the crow who figured out that if he filled up a tube with water the peanut would rise to the top. Have to give you kudos for making it thru the talk.
Oh, a Princess and a professional animal researcher. What an exciting, challenging life.
While in flight I am always amazed how cooperatively birds work together. It also appears that when feeding, birds legimately wait their turn to feed amongst each other, rather than engaging in a frenzied feeding fest.
Great talk, exactly what I was looking for! I'm 23 & have loved birds all my life.. but only recently when I started learning about consciousness, evolution, cognition etc did I start realising the extent of avian intelligence. such a fascinating topic :D our winged brothers and sisters (of 300million yrs ago) are much cleverer than we give em credit for lol
Cockatoo's are by far the most intelligent birds on this planet!!! I have been owned by one for many years now and I continue to be amazed by her intelligence, as well as her emotions. Of the many years that I have had and raised birds, nothing could have prepared me for the intelligence of a cockatoo!! She is like having a child that NEVER grows up, but grows smarter by the day. I never dreamed that I would be having a battle of wits with a bird on a daily basis, and some days I do not win!! lol!!
@King Louis!! As can a cockatoo!!
@King Louis!! My cockatoo use to have 2 crow stalkers when I lived just off of the promenade in Seaside. They followed us home from our walk one day. They would sit outside on the power line and wait for her to come out on the deck. I never allowed for them to get close to her due to diseases. I think that they delighted in the fact that she could scream just like the did, only exponentially louder!! They stayed close by all that summer, but come the high winds on the headlands come mid fall and winter, EVERY birdie and touron (tourist+moron) evacuates the our area until and we get our coastline and hurricane winds back until spring. 🌊🐳🐚
Hammer Vortrag! Auch sehr symphatisch und mutig trotz der unsicherheit in der Sprache sich auf diese Bühne zu stellen.
Respekt!
I can read this much German. "Birds are Jerks! You done a good job!"
so unsicher in der Sprache ist sie nicht, sie hat in England studiert
She is adorable!! I saw a bunch of her actual research videos then found this. She seems very shy and nervous but that was a great presentation.
It's difficult to grasp when just explained but to see the birds in action is something else
You could tell she loves that bird.
Anxiety shot through the roof after awhile.
Birds are fascinating, they are Earth's expressions of beauty, elegance and intelligence. They are omnipresent in our lives and remind us of the necessary most important relationship between us and all animals. Birds are a bridge between us and Earth...they convey our planet sacred wisdom...we should really pay close attention their messages; we must take better care of our home...our very existence depends on it.
You want to see angels
...Observe birds.
You want to hear the angels
...listen to birds.
You want your prayers answered
...ask the birds.
Love birds...love Earth...love yourself.
I am 2Crows.
Great talk, thank you.
It's time.
💫⚡💞🌎💞⚡💫
I respect people who take their time to understand animal intelligence instead if exploit economic value
I love how she can recognize Tuli's various calls. What a beautiful relationship
i love the fact that corvids will make a tool so they can use that tool to make another tool and use it for a task that they had in mind figured out how to get the task done by making the tool. and that when they imitate a sound like a word that they will do it so well that they even imitate the accent of the person that they are trying to imitate. they are ssooooooo cool and amazing creatures. 💖
I met one single magpie at the San Diego Zoo- and ever since I have respected birds for their intelligence.
I think that her bird might have been confused because her voice was being reproduced via loudspeakers at various points around the auditorium... hence it wasn’t sure where she was... I think that the speaker was a bit upset by her jackdaw flying away... nevertheless great talk and really interesting... birds are amazing 😃👍🏻
My neighbors set out food for crows and all around the feeding area are trinkets and odd little items that i believe were left there by the crows, perhaps as a "thank you". Having pets myself, i can totally understand the distraction of being concerned about Dohli. Great subject, nice talk, one of the best smiles ever....
Crows have been known to leave little thank you gifts for food.
Great talk! Love Corvids, so intelligent! I have a whole family that lives outside my home. They are truly amazing :)
Dear Auguste, thanks for this great video. You are right, birds are maybe one of the most interesting and fascinating animals in this world! Look at the pigeons - they can find their way home to the partner even after released hundreds of kilometers away from their home and isn´t that something magic? I think your jackdow "Dohli" is showing this to you every day! In my youth I had a Magpie for one summer but sadly didn´t come back one day.
But birds, maybe especially the species of the corvids are certainly so intelligent and dear Auguste of Bayern I want to thank you again for all of your researches you provided to us!
All the Best out of Bavaria - viele liebe Grüße aus Bayern und der Oberpfalz bei Weiden, Auguste nochmals vielen Dank!
Real stunning presentation love it !
Fantastic and enlightening performance. I’ve always understood they were intelligent creature, but I didn’t know it was anywhere near great apes! Wonderful talk!!!!
Awesome presentation. Beautiful all around.
Thank you for this, very enlightening!! The difference between human and animal. Simply I loved this!
Excellent presentation!
When i was born my parents took me overseas to see my grand parents for the first time. 10 years later i went back and this bird wouldnt leave me alone. My grandmother told me "oh thats the crow. The one that liked you when you were born" i thought she was telling me a church tale or something.
Great talk. I've been promoting bird intelligence for a few decades now.
Birdbrain? Insult or Compliment? I'll side with the latter. I mostly studied African Greys but as a keen ornithologist I study birds in general and never tire of studying them.
Although very often I felt like I was the mind being studied.
Again, thankyou for your talk and insight you've given. 🐣🐥🦅🕊
Part of working with/raising birds is understanding them lol. If anyone here has ever had a bird for an extended period of time it just becomes second nature to be able to translate their every sound and move just like she did. "Now she's bored, she's complaining" it's really sweet
Excellent presentation. The description of the bird working a splinter off the aviary frame and then using it to maneuver a peanut to where the bird could get at it-followed by film of the incident-was quite powerful. I think it’s beyond all doubt that the bird analyzed the problem, formed a plan in its mind, and executed the plan. A complex task, calling for considerable intelligence. (The speaker also admirably prevailed, as a number of readers have pointed out, over adverse circumstances in the form of the bird’s escape, and the language challenge.)
Sometimes I think birds are smarter than we are. I have 2 African Greys that are amazing talkers. They only talk when they feel like it, and always seem to make conversation when the atmosphere is right. Only a fellow bird owner would know what I mean.
celestial1933 😂
Ya, gimme a call when they learn to build a nuclear reactor.
Absolutely. And when you video them, they shut right up.
An African Grey called Alex was the first animal to ask a human a question! They were teaching him about colours and at some point he asked "What colour am I!"
wonderful talk...thank you.
good presentation...understanding of this complex bird sanitation is an interesting fact, you got to love wild life for that.
amazing birds and presentation
Brava.
This is it, what ultimately distinguishes humans from the other animals.
Great job!
I adore this woman and admire her research.
I love crows and ravens and now jackdaws
sillysallyceli they are all pretty close to the same thing
Thank you. Crows are always fascinating
I respect this Woman Beautiful Performance. Not many people can speak in front of a camera let alone an audience.
The ending of the monologue just did it for me!
Three cheers for the Corvids! Another thought provoking TED talk. More animal behavior talks please
Fascinating! Thank you!
I love how she knows what the crow that is bonded with her is saying.
She’s so intelligent i love her
very compassionate presentation. Other animals do have volition and feelings and more. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's classic," the hidden life of dogs" bears this out.
At 6:30 she stated that we humans have the ability to dream up ways to escape our natural limitations in ways that animals could never do. But then again that journey to flight and the succeeding one to space may not have occurred without the inspiration of the animal kingdom. Would the Wright brothers have followed their dream so fervently had not the birds, the bees, and the butterflies demonstrated that it was indeed possible?
I think certain planes were based off of birds. Like the eagle's curling wingtips that help it with something. Some planes have almost the same design with the tips of the wings raised up to decrease drag.
And Marx observed ants and then created “scientific communism."
Beautiful oration Dolly!
Amazing! Thank you!
Fantastic
Excellent talk. Thanks
yes, she was amazing. fascinating lecture
I have always loved crows or animals in general
You are right on
Great work excellent work Auguste very interesting Thankyou for your work your Amazing
Bravo ! Especially your ending comment.
Crows are just so cool!
Her voice is like a Lullaby. I feel sleepy now in the morning!
I turned my back on a raven once and he stole my sandwich!
Ravens are thieves. They love shiny trinkets. They're also extortionists. In New Mexico, there was a gang running a protection racket. they showed up at my camp acting like thugs so I appeased them with Doritos. One year I showed up without the Doritos and they made a big fuss. Fearing for my safety, I made a trip to the general store and got some. I also had a stash of costume jewelry bracelets and would occasionally leave one where they could steal it. when they did, I would put on a show of righteous indignation. I miss those guys.
Jody Fulford I bet you stole the Ravens bike before! 😂 no offence mate :D
At least he didn't steal any of your celestial bodies...
@The Rockall Times share and share alike
a gull will take a sandwich because food. a raven will take and hide anything because interesting.
When i was young, a friend of mine had a crow. We use to go walk on the beach around tourists while the crow was flying above. To impress the tourists, we would put our arms out and call the crow. Of course he would come and land on our arm immediately. We ere only able to call one crow...but attracted many young girls this way ;) Crows are very intelligent and so were we lolll
I know my comments are very late but I just saw this. I enjoyed it very much Augusta. I am Australian and lately had the time to do research on subjects I actually enjoy. I have seen many Australian Crows, or maybe there Ravens, in the Bush and Desserts but many scavenging on our outback roads/tracks. I believe they are very intelligent. Another bird I often see is the Sulphur Crested Cockatoo. They roost by the thousands along the Murray River.
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As far as the birds being smart and handy with using small sticks as tools, you have to remember that they've been practicing using spindle-like objects ever since they evolved from ground-dwelling animals to flying animals living in trees. Birds build nests using twigs and any other small spindly objects they can find to build a durable mesh, so they've been naturally adept at mentally grasping three-dimensional structures and the purposeful manipulation of the same -- for a very long time. However, that does not make their intelligence any less amazing.
@King Louis!! All life on earth began in the oceans as one-cell animals. Nothing began existence as flying creatures or even crawling creatures. Single-cell animals are microscopic in size and do not have wings, legs, eyes, ears or anything else that we recognize today as familiar "animals." Some small four-legged creatures not much larger than mice became accustomed to running in leaps and bounds to escape predators. Through the process of natural selection the ones who could leap the furthest and highest became better survivors. It got even better for them when they developed feathers and lighter bodies (by having bones composed of closed-cell bubbles (like a foam structure which is mostly air). This allowed birds to jump even further and higher until they reached the point in evolution where they could actually remain aloft and escape the ground completely.
We are truly all connected
Amazing birds!
Thank you Auguste von Bayern!
Great talk - just want Dohli to come back at the end!
She has a brilliant mind!
well, did the bird come back??
Amazing Lady! And giving this presentation in a foreign language. She doesn't need to mention she is a Princess of the House of Bavaria. That' s not relevant. She is a scientist. Wonderful presentation!
Am I the only one who thinks she's really cute?
Brian A i was just thinking that as well. She looks distinguished, too.
If I were twenty years younger I would not hesitate taking her home to meet my parents,and they were quite discerning.Dignified,refined=VERY attractive.+If that's your pic in avatar I'd say you easily fit in the same category.,very beautiful.
Princess Auguste Marie Philippa von Bayern is the oldest daughter of Prince Luitpold of Bavaria. She is married to the lawyer Ferdinand Prinz of the Lippe-Weißenfeld family. (source: Wikipedia).
Sorry Brian, I don't think the Princess of Bavaria wants to go home with you to meet your folks.
And I'm still not twenty years younger.
The intelligence doesn't hurt either.
I love everything you say. They are very intelligent
The speaker language stumbled a little -- but I enjoyed her presentation and learned a lot from her and would willingly listen to another presentation from her.
While they’re not as smart as CORVIDs, pigeon intelligence is underrated. Pigeons can actually be trained to read, and they’re capable of passing the mirror test. Another unique thing that they are capable of would be distinguishing art, plus birds in this family can categorize.
I had to raise a Robin I was amazed how intelligent it was ,he was like a little computer remembering every routine, interaction,it understood everything I tried to do for it
Corvids are interesting, i use to give the magpies and jackdaws that live in my area food sometimes ( not bread, dogfood). They now recognise me and Arent as afraid, but i have no intention in taming them. Sometimes the magpies and jackdaws fight a little . But i noticed the jackdaws come two, One keeping watch were the angry magpie are, the other going for the food 😄
I have noticed that wild jackdaws are way more comfortable around me when I don't look directly at them. So when I wait for the bus in the morning before work and a jackdaw walks up closer to me, I will avert my eyes so that they can go about their buisness without me making them nervous.
I saw a crow at Grandfather Mountain, NC pick up a large piece of gravel, fly over a crowd of tourists and drop the rock from a height of some thirty or forty feet above the crowd. The rock bounced off the outcropping that the people stood on. I laughed out loud in genuine astonishment and admiration of the crow.
I love her voice
Awesome.
I love the fascinated attitude from that jackdaw, she wanted to explore the place.
besides not wanting to sit continuously in bright direct light, the speakers of the auditorium projecting Auguste's voice was probably making her curious, id say soon as she called her without the speakers on she'd zero in and come back.
she is so adorable
My mum used to raise chickens, and there was this one chick that kept escaping the coop. My mum examined the coop a few times, finding no way the chick could get out. Finally, one day, she happened to catch it in the act. There was a feeding trough very close to the wall, with a narrow gap behind it, and the chick sort of made itself flat and dropped through the gap on purpose, then ran underneath the floorboards to a hole that led to the outside. Pretty clever. The question is, did it drop through the gap once by accident and then later remembered how that led to freedom, or did it decide to try it out based on a theory?
[Bird flies off, won't come when called] Doralee, you're making me look bad!