[Bristol-Birds] Re: Crow Food Collection
- From: michael sledjeski <mtnsylva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jpmoyle18@xxxxxxx, bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 23:04:48 -0400
John,
Not just amazing memory, but planning as well. Very impressive performance by
a "birdbrain".
Michael
On May 5, 2011, at 9:56 PM, jpmoyle18@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Hello Bristol Birders, I watched some interesting crow behavior yesterday.
> I had recently put out some broken pieces of bread to go with the bird seed
> that I had placed on the ground below my feeders. Shortly afterward, a crow
> landed and began picking up the bread and cramming its beak full. It then
> flew a short distance away from the feeders, landed in our yard, dropped all
> the bread in our grass and dropped a few bits of dead grass on it. It then
> flew back to the feeders and repeated the collection and flew an even shorter
> distance, deposited the bread and placed a bit of grass on it. Once again,
> it returned to the feeder and crammed its beak full again. This time,
> however, it flew off with the full beak. Shortly afterward, it returned to
> the feeder area, loaded its beak with the last of the bread and flew off
> again. Once more it returned with an empty beak after a short absence. It
> checked out the feeder area and found nothing. It then flew the short
> distance off the feeder area, scoffed up the second pile of bread it had
> stored under a little grass and flew off. Again the crow returned to feeder
> area and went to its first storage spot, collected the bread and flew off.
> That was the last that I saw of the crow collecting the bread. Amazing
> memory of where the bread was stored and the interesting manner of hiding
> bread and then returning for it!
>
> John Moyle Glen Alpine Road
> Kiingsport/Sullivan County
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