lol whats going on? A bird thread is wonderful. Alright we will try come to the chat moar often with good moarning songs....

“If you want to form a bond with a crow, be consistent in rewarding them,” advises John Marzluff, professor of wildlife science at the University of Washington. He specialises in birds, particularly crows and ravens…

Marzluff, and his colleague Mark Miller, did a study of crows and the people who feed them. They found that crows and people form a very personal relationship. “There’s definitely a two-way communication going on there,” Marzluff says. “They understand each other’s signals.”

The birds communicate by how they fly, how close they walk, and where they sit. The human learns their language and the crows learn their feeder’s patterns and posture. They start to know and trust each other. Sometimes a crow leaves a gift.

But crow gifts are not guaranteed. “I can’t say they always will (give presents),” Marzluff admits, having never received any gifts personally, “but I have seen an awful lot of things crows have brought people.”

Next, I phoned “my” expert, Kevin McGowan at Cornell. He has never seen this kind of “gift giving” behavior among his study crows on the East Coast. Though he says that crows cache food, and young crows play with objects and cache things that aren’t exactly food, like acorn caps.

I wondered if West Coast crows different than East Coast crows. And Dr. McGowan said there are differences in their social structure.

I know that crows certainly seem to display “cultural” differences between populations. And Marzluff and others have written at length about how amazing these birds are. They score as high as primates in some intelligence tests. They fashion and use tools.

Crows in captivity will figure out how to fill a cup with water to moisten their food, or bend wire into a hook to lift a tiny bucket. In the wild they’ll bring dry bread to a birdbath to soak and soften it. They may stack scattered crackers into a pile so they can carry the whole pile away. And in Japan, they place walnuts in front of stopped cars in an intersection and wait for the cars to go forward and crush the nuts. Then they swoop in and safely retrieve the nut meats.

I love crows, they have such intelligent eyes. There is a gigantic population of crows where I live, and I've been reading up for a while on forming a bond with them... A few times I gave them food, they quickly picked up on the fact that I was intentionally giving them something, and started following me around in a flock. It was awesome. Very happy Some other times they completely ignored the pieces of food I left out for them - I wouldn't rule it out that they were afraid of it being poisoned.

In the cities they seem to know that peanut is something the non-bird-two-leggeds give the caged parrot-bird-ppl so they call it parrot(cry)-krrrrrrrgh-uuuuhhrrrrr (love-gifts)

Nice Tatt, it takes some time before they'd come to the window sill. Unless there is boiled egg-halfs with mayonnaise or some other treasure they'd rather avoid the human habitat trapdoors. They cannot easily perch on some window sills. Perhaps you could install a horizontal perching pole in front of a window, since you are ground floor? Whatever you build, he will think you are building a trap and that's what this is all about....he loikely wants you to install a classical bird feeder (general bird type) and put all the 'stuff' there (and walk away).