Aussie Finch Forum

My Biologist tells me that the Ravens (not crows, apparently we don;t have them in W.A.) can get into the new improved bins on the Uni site within weeks of them changing types.
LML

Especially when you consider that they spend so much of their time eating roadkill, their road sense is amazing.

Ive seen a dead one or two and they just look like .....well a dead black bird .

coming from a country area i know of people who shoot or trap the odd one stealing chook eggs.One thing is they nearly always know when a gun is out without seeing it and what they are hit they seem to be bullet proof on certain angles.The other thing I have heard is people putting a egg in a rabbit trap and getting them this way.Then they hang the dead crow up in the air tied to a very long piece of bamboo or alike for all the other crows to see.this apparently keeps them away seeing one of their own hanging from a long bamboo or alike pole.

Also another thing I read in the local paper this week.Was a crow was caught by the local rspca this week.It had its beak stapled shut and was found with atleast 28 other staples in it body.It had to be put down.

The chook egg stealing one I can understand some action needed.But stapling a beak shut and torturing then letting one go again ,very very sick person involved indeed.

If only we could swear on the forum .... no wonder I dislike people so much , that is just sickening .

gomer wrote:The chook egg stealing one I can understand some action needed.But stapling a beak shut and torturing then letting one go again ,very very sick person involved indeed.

Sick indeed, proves a total lack of empathy and emotional detachment for another sentient being. That kind of behaviour has been proven to escalate to be practiced on humans later on. A sociopath in the making there. Bet the authorities are taking that very seriously.

tonytoast wrote:

jusdeb wrote:Has anyone ever heard of or seen any acts of aggression by them towards humans ?

More to the point, have you ever seen a dead one.........spooky!

Yep I travel a lot of KLMS to and from mines for work and over the years have only hit 2 with a car....

I have seen lots of dead ones when I used to grow water melons, but we wont go there. We had a few dropping out of the trees here when we were baiting mice/rats in the shed around the grain etc, they must've been eating the dead mice. Yes they like chook eggs, if we let the chooks out we have to collect the eggs first, there is one crow that will go straight in the door when the chooks are let out, well I should say used to. We locked him in there for a while one day, didn't like it much, put on a hell of a performance, lol.

Thanks for all the advice discussion everyone. Things seems to have quietened down over the last couple of days from the group of delinquents. Not sure if it was because I actually caught 4 in cat traps (set over night to deal with a pesky ginger tom that turned up one night) on the same morning. All 4 were set free I might add but may have had a bit of a scare before I found them. Another possible reason is that an adult pair have moved into a tree about a 100 mts away and have been scrounging twigs (in some cases logs!!) from close to the house and i noticed the adults giving the youngsters the what for.

Fingers crossed it stays quiet.

spoton wrote:Another possible reason is that an adult pair have moved into a tree about a 100 mts away and have been scrounging twigs (in some cases logs!!)

Sounds like only a temporary halt in proceedings! How many eggs do they usually lay???