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When I was a kid I tried hunting crows for "sport". After I shot a few on the ground at our local dump they always flew away before I could get within with my .22 single shot rifle. I think they has posted lookouts for protection. Then I went back to shooting dump rats. They were an endless source of moving targets.
Their vision is incredible and they learn fast. In an area that they can be hunted it's hard to get close to them.
Yeah, I looked up the prey list for great horned owls and (dating myself) it looked like the list for the Tazmanian devil from the old bugs bunny cartoon.
Aardvarks, Antelopes.......etc.
Not sure how many people remember the cartoon, classic bugs bunny vs Taz.
Bugs n Tax. Lol....that's a good analogy. I guess we can liken these little birds harassing big ones to Woody Woodpecker.
Crows dive bombing a hawk or eagle is one of my favorite things to see. Whenever you see crows having a fit it pays to look and find out why. You get to see a lot of cool things that way, falcons or hawks in a tree, one time I went out to see what they were on about and it was a raccoon trying to spend a peaceful day way up in a fir tree. Crows were not going to let him get his rest!
I just saw a crow attacking a hawk (pretty sure it's a hawk). I remember reading that this is fairly common but havent seen it in the wild until today.
I was casually walking when I saw a single, mid-sized crow above me, swooping and making a 180. Next thing I see, it goes straight for a hawk, from behind, that was casually flying by. It did it about 3 times before letting the hawk go. The hawk didnt seem bothered at all. Ive always wanted to see this in the wild.
I just saw a crow attacking a hawk (pretty sure it's a hawk). I remember reading that this is fairly common but havent seen it in the wild until today.
I was casually walking when I saw a single, mid-sized crow above me, swooping and making a 180. Next thing I see, it goes straight for a hawk, from behind, that was casually flying by. It did it about 3 times before letting the hawk go. The hawk didnt seem bothered at all. Ive always wanted to see this in the wild.
Yeah crows hate owls primarily but they do go after hawks too. They just don't want them around because those big predators (especially owls hitting them at night when they are vulnerable) eat them and their young.
Yeah crows hate owls primarily but they do go after hawks too. They just don't want them around because those big predators (especially owls hitting them at night when they are vulnerable) eat them and their young.
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Where is your source. When is the last time that you've started a thread?
When I was a kid I tried hunting crows for "sport". After I shot a few on the ground at our local dump they always flew away before I could get within with my .22 single shot rifle. I think they has posted lookouts for protection. Then I went back to shooting dump rats. They were an endless source of moving targets.
I killed one crow on our lawn trying to protect our apple trees. That was many years ago. The crows did not see it coming; I shot from a camouflaged area with a single shot .22 Ranger. It drove the rest of the crows nuts; it was like they were upset that they did not perceive the danger. For almost a decade later they treated me differently than they did my wife. They ignored her presence; but immediately took off if I walked outside.
I also enjoyed going to the dump to shoot rats. Before 'new' laws, back in either the 60's or 70's, many dumps were open dumps and rats were too numerous to count. In the early morning or late afternoon you could not even see the garbage; just rats. The closest neighbors, to these dumps, would appeal to hunters/shooters to help cut down the numbers - their houses were infested with rats.
Mobbing behavior is not only limited to crows but also red-wing blackbirds, mockingbirds, sparrows,
grackles and other song birds. This is done during breeding season and/or to protect their nests.
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