Very cool, I love crows, I have a small group that now "talk" to me when they see me hanging up the laundry as if prompted, I've been known to bring food out to them. All I had today for them was a cup of stale cornflakes, but they thought that was grand and,. then had to skirmish with the squirrels to keep them from stealing their cereal. Crows are some of the best parts of my day.
Animals who play are a huge sign of intelligence. Most animals act with natural survival instincts but crows often show a lot of unique things like snowboarding to swinging etc...awesome footage!
Wow, very intelligent birds. This guys commentary is hilarious as well. "Some of these other crows are wannabes... unfortunately quite hopeless." So serious LOL
Such fun to watch and get inside their heads. Thank you! Made me 😅 All “my” crows do is snarf leftovers on my deck’s Crow Bar. I do enjoy the raucous fledglings. So far (3 years) they’ve gifted me a small animal bone, pistachio shells and a dry, seed-filled feces. Still hoping for a watch or ring. 😂
I love how they keep order among themselves. Like they can only shake one another off without touching the other, and when they do, they pause --FOUL--
On windy days you can sometimes see crows landing on the very top of trees and playing king of the hill while others try knocking them off. It's a gas to watch.
It seems like this game was likely started by a single crow as we've not seen any playing like this since that summer. Perhaps in the future another young crow will re-discover the game. We'll be watching. BTW, the animal at the start of the video is a Woodchuck, a type of Marmot. We have a plentiful supply of woodchucks, but I've never seen them swinging from branches.
Crows are super smart. Perhaps we shouldn't even attempt to rate the level of consciousness in animals, because this is far beyond our capacity to measure and understand.
All corvids are known for finding toys to keep themselves entertained. They are among the smartest birds, surpassing many in the parrot family. Among corvids, the common raven is the most intelligent. Ravens not only play games they also utilize items for tools to retrieve food.
So awesome, they're brilliant. One day I had a, er, bird's eye view (just a few feet away), of a tiny little plain-jane bird doing this. Such a joy to watch, knowing there's a consciousness in that little life form, that loves to play and have fun. Just like us.
Looks like they were playing like, hold on the longest. Cause whenever one stays long enough the other bird shakes the branch, or goes on top to knock the bird off
I used to push peanuts into the bark of an oak tree, where there were no perches for a crow. They would walk around the free spotting them, then jump up and do their best hummingbird/woodpecker impression grabbing the but as quickly as possible. You could see them getting better at it each time.
I wouldn't want to domesticate a crow. They're so smart right now and the domestication process tends to make animals dumber. Let them be who they are... we don't have to own *everything*.
It's not really possible to domesticate "a" crow, given that domestication is a multi-generational process. Keeping one as a pet, however, while certainly singular, would have no impact on their intelligence. In fact, as human living environments (homes) are usually rich with potential avenues of investigation for an intelligent creature like crows, it's likely that those birds that have been raised as pets have very little to want for in terms of mental stimulation - particularly as humans themselves tend to be endlessly fascinating for a curious thing like crows. That is, of course, unless they've been kept in a cage for much of their waking hours. But that would be an abuse I think. All of that said, I would agree that unless the crow in question has been injured or is otherwise unable to manage by themselves, it's probably best to just appreciate them at a distance.
I had a pet crow growing up. Raised it after it fell from a nest. 'Bird Big' never had a cage and could come and go as he pleased. He chose to sleep inside at night, bath in the mornings and just be a crow the rest of the day. This bird left such an impact on me that I now feed a local group of crows. If I forget to, they tell me. If I don't see them, they will swoop down in front of me. There is no domesticating one of the smartest animals on the planet.
AndyFromBeaverton That's an awesome story. I feed a few of the locals and, yeah, it's kinda funny how they try to get your attention. It's sort of a friendly, much more considerate form of how they try to intimidate potential human threats :P But I'm pretty sure they could be domesticated and fairly easily due to their short breeding cycle (birth to breeding age). All domestication is, really, is the successive selection of the most positively disposed (or whatever trait you prefer - huge and meaty if its for food, for example) animals for breeding. After a few generations, you have a critter that just automatically thinks humans are great. Although, that being said, I understand their mate selection process and courtship rituals are pretty involved so that might make things more difficult than, say, breeding dogs. I dunno... just speculating and without my morning coffee yet.
JoeNietzsche I was thinking that crows couldn't be domesticated in a Planet of the Apes manner. One time I saw a juvenile crow steal a nut from an older crow. This older crow turned away and pretended to be working on even a better nut. The juvenile crow dropped the stolen nut with hopes of stealing a bigger nut. The older crow grabbed his original nut and flew off. God, I wish I had a camera then! Here's a good read: io9.com/5969515/corvids-the-birds-who-think-like-humans
you may never see this response ....I followed your link...I have been fascinated by and reading about corvids and parrots and magpies etc for a long time and it was a pleasure to read that article...
I get the feeling that this is how mating rituals in animals start...one just DOES something, and another is impressed, so the others try to see if they can do it, and then the one who can do the thing best gets a girl just because she's impressed, and then from then on that animal does that always for picking up girls.
Awesome. Crows are so intelligent. One of the few examples of play in birds, I think? I know my chickens don't play. lol. Chickens are quite stupid in comparison.
Has anyone ever thought of the idea that dogs are smarter than humans but they are so smart that they don’t want us to know cuz they know whe would make them do stuff.And dogs are 5x smarter than us. Poof MIND BLOWN 🤯
I love crows! Its the magpies i dislike. They watch other birds building nest and laying eggs & feeding, then they raid the nests, take the poor babies. Another thing Magpies do when theyre up to no good (or warning each other of a predator) is that 'cackling' noise only they make. When i hear that i go and inspect because often they surround a soul bird eg pigeon and take it jn turns to peck at it just for entertainment but leads to killing it! Crows are higher in the pecking order and scare them off but ive caught magpies doing that a few times (ive even pulled up after spotted them on a verge, surrounding a poor bird, to scare them off, they all scarper and the poor victim stands there as if to say 'what happened there? That was a lucky escape!!!" Then realises a human's standing there and quickly flies off! MAGPIES ARE NASTY TO OTHER BIRDS LOVE YOUR CROWS! 🤗🤗🤗
Hilarious! I think TH-cam recommended this vid to me because I was watching 'Australian Magpies Hanging Around' th-cam.com/video/yJN5_1tfqXo/w-d-xo.html - same deal, but the maggies are swinging upside down from towels on a suburban backyard clothesline. Like these ravens or crows, they tease each other and compete. Males and females seem to be involved though it's hard to tell as their feathers are still mottled, their being juveniles. The Aussie magpies aren't corvids though, so unrelated to your birds.
I just watched Fight Club… and this literally is the plot line of the movie, in abbreviated form. “Look, they are bored out of their minds… one has figured out how to get a little bit of living by doing something pushing boundaries… others join in… most fail… then the start fighting between themselves… It de-evolves… ” Isn’t that the plot of fight club?
Thank you! 12years later!
03:11 Crow dive-bombs branch. Totally misses it. Lands and strikes a pose as if saying "I meant to do that."
Noirling We all have that one friend
😄😄😄
I like the idea that a guy somewhere out there is watching crows for fun
First time hearing about bird watching?
Very cool, I love crows, I have a small group that now "talk" to me when they see me hanging up the laundry as if prompted, I've been known to bring food out to them.
All I had today for them was a cup of stale cornflakes, but they thought that was grand and,. then had to skirmish with the squirrels to keep them from stealing their cereal. Crows are some of the best parts of my day.
Animals who play are a huge sign of intelligence. Most animals act with natural survival instincts but crows often show a lot of unique things like snowboarding to swinging etc...awesome footage!
Wow, very intelligent birds. This guys commentary is hilarious as well. "Some of these other crows are wannabes... unfortunately quite hopeless." So serious LOL
It's hilarious when they dismount. It's like they got dizzy and just kinda flop to the ground and slowly right themselves.
Such fun to watch and get inside their heads. Thank you! Made me 😅 All “my” crows do is snarf leftovers on my deck’s Crow Bar. I do enjoy the raucous fledglings. So far (3 years) they’ve gifted me a small animal bone, pistachio shells and a dry, seed-filled feces. Still hoping for a watch or ring. 😂
I love how they keep order among themselves. Like they can only shake one another off without touching the other, and when they do, they pause --FOUL--
This was an amazing video. Without such video, some might claim that crows do not "play" in this manner.
On windy days you can sometimes see crows landing on the very top of trees and playing king of the hill while others try knocking them off. It's a gas to watch.
He flies through the air with the greatest of ease, the daring young crow on the flying trapeze! :D
I love crows (and other corvids)! such intelligent and often funny characters 😊
How cute & fun! I love watching them in my yard also!
It seems like this game was likely started by a single crow as we've not seen any playing like this since that summer. Perhaps in the future another young crow will re-discover the game. We'll be watching.
BTW, the animal at the start of the video is a Woodchuck, a type of Marmot. We have a plentiful supply of woodchucks, but I've never seen them swinging from branches.
NCARalph Wonderful to see! Thank you 🙏
This one single bird is a trendsetter.
They're such lovely and surprising animals- I've always loved crows and couldn't understand why anyone thought they were evil or bad omens.
I am so glad that everyone has a camera now so all this entertaining and possibly novel bird conduct is finally being recorded and shared.
Crows are super smart. Perhaps we shouldn't even attempt to rate the level of consciousness in animals, because this is far beyond our capacity to measure and understand.
All corvids are known for finding toys to keep themselves entertained. They are among the smartest birds, surpassing many in the parrot family. Among corvids, the common raven is the most intelligent. Ravens not only play games they also utilize items for tools to retrieve food.
Such lovable rogues
I love these cute little goobers...
It’s interesting how they must find the point where the branch still swings and at the same time gives the most grip.
It's a murder of crows practicing for the Crowlympics
I hear getting tickets is very CAWstly
“The dismount does need some work” 😂
All the other crows thinking "Woah, that looks fun!"
A crow sporting event! Fabulous capture and really well edited and narrated. Thanks for sharing the fun.
So awesome, they're brilliant. One day I had a, er, bird's eye view (just a few feet away), of a tiny little plain-jane bird doing this. Such a joy to watch, knowing there's a consciousness in that little life form, that loves to play and have fun. Just like us.
I have never seen crows play at swinging. Excellent video! I love crows.
2:14 hot damn did you see that! pulled a sick parkour trick
Thank you. I won the bet. My wife did not believe that birds could play.
Nice pictures!!
Haha... "My turn!" "My turn!" You can just hear them! :-) xo
I love these funny birds; been feeding them about three and a half years now and they're just such a joy.
I wonder what a crow “jungle gym” would look like for crows. Thanks for sharing! ❤
I loved this! Thanks for sharing it. Gorgeous and intelligent birds are Crows!
They also like if you watch them and admire them and yell nicely to them when they make something funny.
Looks like they were playing like, hold on the longest. Cause whenever one stays long enough the other bird shakes the branch, or goes on top to knock the bird off
0:45 is pretty funny. The crow on the ground is telling the one on the branch to quit hogging it. LOL
Crows are great.
This is so precious! And so interesting to see!!! 😍😍😍😍😍 beautiful birds! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
It was as if they watched bats, and liked what they saw.
Wow, thanks so much for capturing this on film. Seeing the games that corvids invent is totally fascinating!
Very cool footage! I also really enjoyed your commentary. THanks for posting!
Fascinating.
This is so funny I love it, thank you for uploading
Crows, what marvelous birds.
So funny. Such characters! ❤
Beautiful footage, just beautiful , what an amazing catch you got here. I just LOVE crows
Crows just wanna have fun
Great video. You have such beautiful grounds around your house. I saw something that looked like a hedgehog at the beginning of the video.
I used to push peanuts into the bark of an oak tree, where there were no perches for a crow. They would walk around the free spotting them, then jump up and do their best hummingbird/woodpecker impression grabbing the but as quickly as possible. You could see them getting better at it each time.
Thank you, NCARalph for sharing this very enjoyable video. Crows are very skillful and intelligent.
I'm trying to get my beautiful crows that visit to like me and know I'll bring them food. But so far - nothing. 😢
A mí también me gusta observar el comportamiento de los animales, tengo pájaros y me encanta mirar cómo interactúan entre ellos.
One morning you'll wake up and find them playing with your eyeballs. Watch out!
crows love to play and it's so cute
I wouldn't want to domesticate a crow. They're so smart right now and the domestication process tends to make animals dumber. Let them be who they are... we don't have to own *everything*.
It's not really possible to domesticate "a" crow, given that domestication is a multi-generational process. Keeping one as a pet, however, while certainly singular, would have no impact on their intelligence. In fact, as human living environments (homes) are usually rich with potential avenues of investigation for an intelligent creature like crows, it's likely that those birds that have been raised as pets have very little to want for in terms of mental stimulation - particularly as humans themselves tend to be endlessly fascinating for a curious thing like crows. That is, of course, unless they've been kept in a cage for much of their waking hours. But that would be an abuse I think. All of that said, I would agree that unless the crow in question has been injured or is otherwise unable to manage by themselves, it's probably best to just appreciate them at a distance.
I had a pet crow growing up. Raised it after it fell from a nest. 'Bird Big' never had a cage and could come and go as he pleased. He chose to sleep inside at night, bath in the mornings and just be a crow the rest of the day. This bird left such an impact on me that I now feed a local group of crows. If I forget to, they tell me. If I don't see them, they will swoop down in front of me. There is no domesticating one of the smartest animals on the planet.
AndyFromBeaverton That's an awesome story. I feed a few of the locals and, yeah, it's kinda funny how they try to get your attention. It's sort of a friendly, much more considerate form of how they try to intimidate potential human threats :P
But I'm pretty sure they could be domesticated and fairly easily due to their short breeding cycle (birth to breeding age). All domestication is, really, is the successive selection of the most positively disposed (or whatever trait you prefer - huge and meaty if its for food, for example) animals for breeding. After a few generations, you have a critter that just automatically thinks humans are great.
Although, that being said, I understand their mate selection process and courtship rituals are pretty involved so that might make things more difficult than, say, breeding dogs. I dunno... just speculating and without my morning coffee yet.
JoeNietzsche I was thinking that crows couldn't be domesticated in a Planet of the Apes manner.
One time I saw a juvenile crow steal a nut from an older crow. This older crow turned away and pretended to be working on even a better nut. The juvenile crow dropped the stolen nut with hopes of stealing a bigger nut. The older crow grabbed his original nut and flew off. God, I wish I had a camera then!
Here's a good read: io9.com/5969515/corvids-the-birds-who-think-like-humans
you may never see this response ....I followed your link...I have been fascinated by and reading about corvids and parrots and magpies etc for a long time and it was a pleasure to read that article...
I love crows! I feed some crow's everyday sometimes 3 time's in one day!
Tarzan and Jane. Love those guys 💕
Awesome insight into our fellow earthlings. Thanks for sharing.
I'm a little late to this video. But it was worth the wait!...Smart birds! 👍😊
when one of them keeps hogging the branch and the other just goes higher up on the tree
Such a fun birds! 😁
Wow! That's so fascinating. Thanks for recording it for us to see!
They're trying to teach the other crows how to swing too! They stopped their little knock-off game to let the others practice!
I get the feeling that this is how mating rituals in animals start...one just DOES something, and another is impressed, so the others try to see if they can do it, and then the one who can do the thing best gets a girl just because she's impressed, and then from then on that animal does that always for picking up girls.
Very nice to watch! Thank´s! 😍
You'll always be a Crow John Snow....
Have you ever seen the Russian video where a crow takes a lid and uses it to go sledding on a roof. It’s amazing!
Cute! There's a ground hog in the beginning!
Enjoyed the commentary
Wonder what they would do if He put some kind of bird swing out there???
Awesome. Crows are so intelligent. One of the few examples of play in birds, I think? I know my chickens don't play. lol. Chickens are quite stupid in comparison.
as a chicken i resent that.
Cee Bee They can if you teach them but crows tend to do it by their own accord.
I love that! "The dismount does need some work!" 😁 Certainly wouldnt impress any young girl crows watching! 😆
I Love "Crowdies" soo much !! thanks for posting !! ((CAWsome))) OXOX
That looks so fun...
And thus crows discover swings
Has anyone ever thought of the idea that dogs are smarter than humans but they are so smart that they don’t want us to know cuz they know whe would make them do stuff.And dogs are 5x smarter than us. Poof MIND BLOWN 🤯
Nope, it’s been proven that humans are the most smart animals on the planet. Dogs are very smart, but not nearly as smart than us.
"Richard, shut up"
...........that was creepy
Interesting! And funny!
Thankyou!
Seen identical behaviour in Aussie magpies.
I would build them a total activity center complete with treats and plenty of water to stay hydrated. Corvids are just too cool!
Hehe they're each trying to get the top position
I love this so much! **squee-laughing** lookit them go
The more advanced the play the smarter the animal.
INCREDIBLE!!!
sweet video... Thanks a lot for the video. :)
Fascinating 😀
Theres a large group next to the leisure center ,they play Russian roulet with the traffic.
wonderful!
That is amazing
0:46 Daww, his little leg sticking up to hang on to the branch
average swinging enjoyer:
I love crows! Its the magpies i dislike. They watch other birds building nest and laying eggs & feeding, then they raid the nests, take the poor babies. Another thing Magpies do when theyre up to no good (or warning each other of a predator) is that 'cackling' noise only they make. When i hear that i go and inspect because often they surround a soul bird eg pigeon and take it jn turns to peck at it just for entertainment but leads to killing it! Crows are higher in the pecking order and scare them off but ive caught magpies doing that a few times (ive even pulled up after spotted them on a verge, surrounding a poor bird, to scare them off, they all scarper and the poor victim stands there as if to say 'what happened there? That was a lucky escape!!!" Then realises a human's standing there and quickly flies off! MAGPIES ARE NASTY TO OTHER BIRDS LOVE YOUR CROWS! 🤗🤗🤗
Hilarious! I think TH-cam recommended this vid to me because I was watching 'Australian Magpies Hanging Around' th-cam.com/video/yJN5_1tfqXo/w-d-xo.html - same deal, but the maggies are swinging upside down from towels on a suburban backyard clothesline. Like these ravens or crows, they tease each other and compete. Males and females seem to be involved though it's hard to tell as their feathers are still mottled, their being juveniles. The Aussie magpies aren't corvids though, so unrelated to your birds.
I just watched Fight Club… and this literally is the plot line of the movie, in abbreviated form. “Look, they are bored out of their minds… one has figured out how to get a little bit of living by doing something pushing boundaries… others join in… most fail… then the start fighting between themselves… It de-evolves… ” Isn’t that the plot of fight club?
Those are not crows, they are teenage ravens. Note the round tails.
Haha so cool!
“And the bird that came to love him…” I thought this was a girl cat
Lots of people keep pet crows and ravens
Those look like Ravens, not Crows.
The feathers look matted and have a very blue sheen to them.
lol taking turns too