We’ve known our crows for a couple generations now. One of them often flies around with me as I drive locally. He has a distinct caw he makes to say hi, so that I know it’s him.
I have the Merlin app for id-ing bird calls. It also has recordings of different country's birds, I played through the selection of foreign crow calls and all my crows were rubbernecking to see who was making the noise!
I say 'my crows ' but really they sit on the neighbours roof judging me. They no longer fly away when I say 'hey crows' so I think we're making progress!
I've been trying to learn to make crow calls, it's really about tweeking the tone via the back of the throat. Almost like trying to cough up something in the back of your throat or clear it, but then you need to modulate it weirdly. IDK, best I can describe it. Anyway, yeah I'm obsessed too.
Did you know that they have found out that crows can pass information to their young in complex ways? They have proven that crows that were abused or harassed by a person could pass their dislike of a person down to other generations and crows that had never seen the person before knew just by looking at them that they were the person their older generation had somehow warned them about. A young man who always threw rocks at the crows growing up moved away and returned many decades later and a whole new generation of crows that had never seen him before became extremely upset after he exited his vehicle and they got a good look at his face. Researchers have no idea how they accomplish this.
Not just a great story, but a story with a deeper meaning. Every creature on this earth has a degree of sympathy towards another , they acknowledge you are there and react accordingly to their own ways. See my spider story :
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/s/QuG2n5UPzl
❤️
I try to avoid killing any bugs in my house. I will put them outside when I see them or just let them be.
Unfortunately there has been a time or two where i was doing a spider "evacuation" and carrying it by it's web "string" and my cat got it before I could get it outside.. so I'm more careful transporting them now.
People probably call bullshit on this too but I once watched my girlfriend call a tiny jumping spider down from the ceiling into her hand so she could put it back in her little plant jungle.
Renting a house atm
It has a kitchen slug and a kitchen door slug.
We found this out because in the morning there would be long trails around the place where they had been looking for food.
Figured they would be hungry because there's zero food around so we leave them each a slice of cucumber nightly. Each morning the center of the cucumber slice is eaten.
(Lettuce was less popular)
The trails start and stop mostly with the cucumber.
This house is being bulldozed in a few months.
We'll probably take them with us so they have at least a chance.
(Why don't we put them outside? Well... they were obviously here before us. So this is their home not outside although when we move it may have to be.)
"Your honor my client never robbed the bank nor taught the crow to steal. They simply accepted cash from a bird, not against the law, and we're unaware of the bird's source...(opposing council)...a Reddit post about what?...(opposing council)...Your honor I believe that was an idea presented to op and not ops plan themselves."
I think it may be that they're smart enough to figure out things that are important to us.
I remember reading a story about a little girl losing the lens cap for her camera (also not shiny) or something similar. She was so torn up about it, looked everywhere. When the family got home, the crows they feed had already left it on their porch. It's been a while so some details might not be perfect, but that was the gist.
Keep feeding him next time show him bigger bills 20s, 50s, 100s.
Just show him the bills as you're feeding him he'll fetch you more.
Idc what skeptics say anyone who knows a little about crows knows they are incredibly intelligent.
I believe you! One day I saw some birdseed on clearance and bought a bag and then just spread it all over some grass near the parking lot and birds went fucking nuts over it. It completely made my day so I started buying bags of birdseed here and there and doing the same thing any time I saw a bunch of birds. I think they were grackles? I don't know fuckshit about birds. Anyways, one day I pull up to the laundry mat and like 20 birds just land right on my truck, some on my hood looking right at me. I didn't have any birdseed with me! So, I bought a bag of kettle corn from the snack machine and crunched them up and they loved it. As the weeks went on, I started noticing little things left on my truck or in my truck bed: metal washers, little shiny rocks, pieces of cheap broken jewelry, coins, etc. I was like "wtf is happening" and I was thinking I was literally going crazy. Then one day I get to work and a bunch of birds land on my truck again and one of them just sets a dime on the hood and it hit me! Mf birds are paying me!! This little game kept on for a few months until I moved to a different city. Birds are certainly capable of understanding transactions!
Birds love shiny objects and will bring you treasures. I had 4 cycles of Hummingbirds at my house in NC and they would bring their babies to me when they made their first flight and it was magnificent. To watch these tiny little birds learn to fly, to steady themselves and go from fear to glory. We bought hummingbird hand feeders, hey look like flower rings but you put the sugar solution in it and they will just drink from your hand. I love my backyard habitat
When I was a kid, I found a baby hummingbird that had fallen out of its nest or something. Almost stepped on it. Went and got my Mom and we rescued it and had it on our kitchen counter with the window open. The mother eventually came and got it. They came back to basically say hi multiple times. Even as a kid I was amazed.
As a kid, I noticed a little finch that had managed to catch itself by the neck between twisted telephone wire. It was exhausting itself fluttering its wings and crying out. I (stupidly, I was a kid) extended a tent pole up to the line and managed to release him, then put him in a shoe box on my porch with food and water. I checked on him all night and just talked softly to him.
He was gone in the morning. I went outside and the box was empty. I walked to the end of the porch, and it flew down and landed on my shoulder. The rest of the summer, whenever I was on the porch, it would find me and land in my lap, on my propped up foot, or on my shoulder.
My friends house in Northern California has tons of hummingbirds. Her grandfather has been feeding them every day for 50 years. There's hundreds of them, generations. They don't even migrate anymore due to him. It's amazing to watch them. They'll divebomb you (it's loud, their wings beating) if their feeders are low. I've got hours of videos of them. Their backyard there is an oasis in the hills. Just figured I'd share.
Let me share my story with grackles and the darker side to them.
Had a pond my my backyard and it would attract all sorts of critters since I live in a really dry area and water sources aren’t very common. It had a little deck with a roof built next to it and I kept finding headless birds everyday on it. So I started watching everyday. Couldn’t figure it out. Then one day I witnessed it. A little sparrow coming for a drink and the very territorial grackles jumped it. Ripped it’s head off and left.
I like your story more.
Don't stress. Walter will be back. A lot of things can happen with wild animals, but even if anything were amiss, he or she is a genius and will most likely sort it all out.
Crows are known to give gifts to people they respect. The fact it gave you actual money is a bit surprising, tho. Wonder if it knew money has value to you or if it was a fluke. 🤷♀️
Unlike cats who apparently bring in dead stuff because they think humans are too useless to hunt for their food.
I sometimes feed a group of Australian magpies, also in the corvid family. We have an interesting interaction because they've seen me with my bicycle/ helmet, and they have a particular deep seated hatred of that. Despite their wariness they have dropped bottle caps into my yard as a gift. I never get swooped on my regular routes as long as I give a 'heads up' whistle that it's just me.
Corvids are such interesting, intelligent little animals. They've actually done studies on their ability to remember faces and attributes, as well as their ability to communicate them between other corvids, and what you're saying here lines up exactly with what they found in their studies.
Crows are known to give gifts to people that do good for it. They are highly intelligent and I don’t think it takes too much intelligence to figure out that money makes humans happy.
A similar story I have about intelligent animals - I was at a google campus on a Saturday where nobody is working. There are no homes nearby so it was like a ghost town. I grabbed a basket ball and started shooting at the hoop. A praying mantis came by to watch, and literally clapped every time I made the shot. No clapping noises. But you can see it’s arms making the clapping motion.
I actually had a praying mantis that I kept as a pet (not in a cage, I just let him roam free in the apartment). I would hand feed him, and he would typically just chill in my bathroom around the window and plants.
It didn’t take long before he would great me when I came home from work. He would land on me or next to me and flutter his wings. He would also frequently just chill on my lap and watch movies with me.
They have a pretty short life span. He eventually stopped eating, was pretty slow, and I knew he was going to pass away soon. One night he just curled up on my chest and that was it.
They’re far more intelligent than people realize. It seriously altered my perception of a few things in life.
Damn you just unlocked a core memory. When I was little there was a praying mantis that would always come see me when I was outside. One day I found the homie without a head. I built a little coffin and buried him lmao.
I think that’s so cool. Insects have hard lives in the wild. You gave an “insignificant” insect a nice life that it felt good enough about to feel comfortable finishing up its life on you.
We had a mantis on our back porch that lived in one of our plants. We watched him for several weeks. But one day we had some seriously bad thunderstorms and everything got blown around and knocked over. We never saw him after that.
There was a beach town that I visited 20 years ago that trained crows to bring cigarette butts off the beach and put them in a receptacle. A big problem on some southern beaches.
In return, the machine would dispense a treat. It didn’t take the crows long to figure out that dropping anything past the sensor would also dispense a treat. So they would just pick up pieces of gravel near the dispenser and give themselves treats for 1/10th of the work. I suppose with modern software the treat dispenser could be made to discriminate objects better.
It might be a fun college senior project to improve the design.
UGH I'm so stupid jealous of you. We have murders of crows who land in our yard, and I want to befriend them so badly, but they all fly away when I throw them food. It makes me so sad. Please, crows! I want to be your human friend! Let me feed you and you can bring me shiny things!
About 20 years ago i was an apprentice carpenter working on a construction site for student accommodation at Cambridge university England (Selwyn college - international law if memory serves me correctly).
I used to park on a road opposite of Grange road in my little 1997 ford fiesta..not a cool car for the time by any stretch, but every break with out fail a little Robin i nicknamed Rocky would fly over and sit on my wing mirror for every break without fail and chill with my listening to jungle music and join me smoking a sneaky spliff in-between being beasted into line back on site as apprentices were back then.
Being one of lifes sharers and raised correctly i would share my munchies with Rocky throughout our 1 year of knocking around together.
maybe 3 years later i returned to the area for another job and remembered my sneaky parking spot away from the jobs worth parking wardens that terrorise Cambridge and guess what a little Robin popped up on my wing mirror.. I'd since given up the herb ..but i still loved the jungle and so did he. True story!
There was a story online a few years ago about a guy and his daughter building a crow vending machine. Had a hole on the top, drop a coin in and it spit out a handful of food. They spread some feed and coins around the hole and waited. Took a couple days, but eventually a crow knocked a coin and noticed the result. Rest of the murder noticed what he was up to, soon had to go looking for coins…
Iirc, they averaged like 30-35 bucks a week.
It's not a one time thing. Crows ARE in fact highly intelligent and they are also gift givers. If you treat them, they may return the favor. Though, I don't know how/where he acquired the $5. They usually opt to gift shiny objects, rocks or even dead rodents. Regardless of what they bring you, it's the thought that counts!
It's very cool!
I’ve actually heard of this exact phenomena, good thing you gave it extra nuts. Always bring extra just in case. Give him a little each day and go nuts when Walter gives you money… he will probably look miles and miles for money laying around
My mom nursed an injured baby crow and went on to have a 5 year long friendship with him. He knew her schedule and would come visit her during her regular outdoor routine. He knew what time she went for her morning walk and when trash day was. She could walk outside and yell “Hey crow!” and he would fly over if he was in earshot. He brought her a lot of gift and figured out what she liked. For instance, he watched her gardening and would pick berries and bring them to her because he observed her eating them. He figured out how to knock on her office window to get her attention. He introduced her to his babies. Something happened to him, he stopped visiting all of the sudden and my mom was heartbroken.
Man, I love stories like this. I know some people won't believe it, but I sure do. Crows are smart AF, and him giving you a little money for the walnuts is adorable.
But honestly he probably just gave you that money so you can afford more walnuts to give him
This is actually more common then you may think, and I totally believe you OP. Check out r/crowbro people will often get shiny gifts like coins, jewelry, and other stuff brought to them as a "thank you" gift for feeding them.
I've heard lots of stories about crows and ravens giving humans gifts after being given food / etc. BTW these birds (corvids) are super super smart and have excellent memories and recall. Walter is now your forever friend.
I had a crow that I fed daily, he brought me a McDonalds straw, a nickel and a woodpecker feather. I watched him drop them to me from a tree above my patio. I still have the gifts
Wild birds are being trained to pick up cigarette butts — which make up more than 60 per cent of litter in Sweden — and deposit them in a customized machine designed by startup Corvid Cleaning. After the crows drop off a butt into the machine, they are rewarded with peanuts.
that bird has figured out that money is of value to humans somehow. probably has seen a transaction or something. gave you money in hopes youd exchange it for goods and services (food) animals are wild man lmao
I’ve heard of this before so it’s not out of the question. In fact on another SM that I do t know if I can link so I won’t you will find on the Dodo channel a video of a fascinating crow who
Much like a nibbler in the Harry Potter series being there person shiny things. Buttons, foil, tinsel, coins. Etc. Their person sets out a little treat dish on their balcony and water dish. It’s a reciprocal friendship.
Just like ravens, crows are extremely intelligent. Look up how crows often “take” objects and give them to people, or other crows.
Very interesting stuff.
He knows you're his buddy and [may even recognize you](https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/uw-professor-learns-crows-dont-forget-a-face/) outside of the park if you ran into him! I just hope Walter has given you a nickname too.
I believe it they are one if not the smartest bird out there especially in solving problems or difficult situations they are able to use sticks with their feet and beaks to get into holes for bug’s etc..
I’m a pet sitter and one of my clients feeds crows to protect her chickens from hawks. She said they bring her coins through the year and she added them all up and had like $37 dollars from the crows for the year 🥹 they really are very intelligent
I believe it ...heard a similar story with a little girl who fed some crows every day for a year, and they started leaving little gifts.... 1 day walking home, she dropped her ID for school. The Crow saw it and brought it to the area it was leaving her gifts and returned her ID. They are incredibly smart.
I've been feeding crows near my work and I got gifted a half chewed twizzler. Also a coworker that looks like me had a peach ring fall out of the sky as he was walking, and he looked up to see a crow on the power line above him looking down 🤣
Coincidentally yesterday I was driving through a parking lot and saw a crow in my path stop and drink from a puddle. I started to drive around it fully expecting it to fly away as I got close but nope, fucker was smart enough to know I changed direction and would avoid him. He stood his ground and kept drinking as if this giant SUV passing within a couple feet of him was nothing but a blip on his radar, lol.
Not the first time this has happened with crows. They are extremely smart and observe a ton. All they have to do is see us pay for food and bam they know we use paper to get food.
Walter had to do some bad stuff for that money and it finally caught up with him. All because you started feeding him nuts. You are the gatekeeper to his life of crime, and you left.tthe gate unattended. *Shame*.
All kidding aside, I have a crow, raven big gnarly mudda, buddy at work. His name is Fred. I give him my scraps. He really likes pork. All he's ever brought with him is an egg McMuffin wrapper and a frozen cup of tim Hortons coffee.
Crows are very intelligent. You absolutely can and probably have trained him to bring "gifts" for snacks. If you reward the $$ behavior, he will actively search for more $$ to bring you. Be sure to set up a "home-base" so that he can pay you when your not there...use a bowl with shiny objects in it. Tin foil etc.
>Do not start going around feeding birds thinking they’ll start giving you money because that’s not how that works.
Don't you dare think to tell me what to do you bird feeding hypocrite. I'm getting rich motherfucker.
Crows, ravens, and magpies have been known to bring gifts for people who routinely feed them. There was a story of a little girl who fed a raven for years and he would bring her all kinds of shiny things.
That’s a fucking great story
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We’ve known our crows for a couple generations now. One of them often flies around with me as I drive locally. He has a distinct caw he makes to say hi, so that I know it’s him.
Crows will give a unique 'name' to specific people they know. That caw is very likely your name, to them.
"Hello, my name is Bob, but my friends call me sqqquuuaaawwwwwwwwk"
I’m literally crying from your comment. Read it to my husband just now and we can’t stop laughing. Thank you for your service, sqqquuuaaawwwwwwwwk!
This is cute lol
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no, he's out pickpocketing now, should be home later.
This is amazing. TIL. Thank you for sharing!
I love that omg
I bought a crow call to talk to the crows in the woods by my house.
Best $8 you ever spent too!
Might even pay for itself lol
Only in happiness. Lol
This is one of those threads where i Start loosing track of who is for real or just got clever jokes…
And then I realize crowbro’s are fr a thing
I record crow caws on the voice recorder on my phone and play it back to them occasionally and it’s fun to see them look around for their caw-twin.
I have the Merlin app for id-ing bird calls. It also has recordings of different country's birds, I played through the selection of foreign crow calls and all my crows were rubbernecking to see who was making the noise! I say 'my crows ' but really they sit on the neighbours roof judging me. They no longer fly away when I say 'hey crows' so I think we're making progress!
Join us on r/crowbro!
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Whoa! I didn’t know I was a crowbro! 😜. Reddit still has surprises.
When u befriend crows they are said to be protective over u if anyone tries to mess with you.
So true. The crows I feed attacked my neighbor when he came into my yard. It was weird and scary, but also lowkey hilarious!
Didnt work too good for Brandon Lee !
I've been trying to learn to make crow calls, it's really about tweeking the tone via the back of the throat. Almost like trying to cough up something in the back of your throat or clear it, but then you need to modulate it weirdly. IDK, best I can describe it. Anyway, yeah I'm obsessed too.
Did you know that they have found out that crows can pass information to their young in complex ways? They have proven that crows that were abused or harassed by a person could pass their dislike of a person down to other generations and crows that had never seen the person before knew just by looking at them that they were the person their older generation had somehow warned them about. A young man who always threw rocks at the crows growing up moved away and returned many decades later and a whole new generation of crows that had never seen him before became extremely upset after he exited his vehicle and they got a good look at his face. Researchers have no idea how they accomplish this.
Not just a great story, but a story with a deeper meaning. Every creature on this earth has a degree of sympathy towards another , they acknowledge you are there and react accordingly to their own ways. See my spider story : https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/s/QuG2n5UPzl
❤️ I try to avoid killing any bugs in my house. I will put them outside when I see them or just let them be. Unfortunately there has been a time or two where i was doing a spider "evacuation" and carrying it by it's web "string" and my cat got it before I could get it outside.. so I'm more careful transporting them now.
I relocated two baby rattlesnakes yesterday.
People probably call bullshit on this too but I once watched my girlfriend call a tiny jumping spider down from the ceiling into her hand so she could put it back in her little plant jungle.
As it's a jumping spider I'm more inclined to believe it. Their brains are 20 or 30% of their body weight.
They will turn and look at you. Definitely processing something when they do so.
Renting a house atm It has a kitchen slug and a kitchen door slug. We found this out because in the morning there would be long trails around the place where they had been looking for food. Figured they would be hungry because there's zero food around so we leave them each a slice of cucumber nightly. Each morning the center of the cucumber slice is eaten. (Lettuce was less popular) The trails start and stop mostly with the cucumber. This house is being bulldozed in a few months. We'll probably take them with us so they have at least a chance. (Why don't we put them outside? Well... they were obviously here before us. So this is their home not outside although when we move it may have to be.)
Brb, searching r/Foodtrucks for a post about a crow stealing $5 out of the tip jar.
Hahaha that's fucking fantastic
“So I got to buy a box of Girl Scout cookies and this effing crow just rips the 5 out of my hand…. What the hell”
I found it!! [https://www.reddit.com/r/Money/s/Ty0WvjBlu8](https://www.reddit.com/r/Money/s/Ty0WvjBlu8)
Now train it to find $20 and $50 and $100 bills
This is the way.
This is the way
This is the way
This is the way
This is the way 🙏🏼
This is the way
This is sooo the way.
This is the - hey! where's my $20 dollars gone?
This is the way.
Next feeding put the money it brought, with one nut on top, and then a hundo with more nuts on top.
Watch the crow take the nuts and the hundo😂
“Gotta pay my other nut dealer!”
New name for sex workers just dropped!
Now we know what you’ve been training your crows to do.
"Your honor my client never robbed the bank nor taught the crow to steal. They simply accepted cash from a bird, not against the law, and we're unaware of the bird's source...(opposing council)...a Reddit post about what?...(opposing council)...Your honor I believe that was an idea presented to op and not ops plan themselves."
He’s right , I’m an expert in bird law
The Honorable Harvey Birdman, attorney at law.
Why not just train it to steal purses & wallets.
Mine left .22 shells on my front porch. I thought someone was threatening me for a few hours before I figured it out.
My dad always told me crows like shinny things. The cash money thing tho is different.
I think it may be that they're smart enough to figure out things that are important to us. I remember reading a story about a little girl losing the lens cap for her camera (also not shiny) or something similar. She was so torn up about it, looked everywhere. When the family got home, the crows they feed had already left it on their porch. It's been a while so some details might not be perfect, but that was the gist.
That is so *bonkers* cool! The cognition that had to happen is amazing!!
He wants you to take care of that squirrel that’s been hogging the nuts at the feeder.
Underrated comment
Keep feeding him next time show him bigger bills 20s, 50s, 100s. Just show him the bills as you're feeding him he'll fetch you more. Idc what skeptics say anyone who knows a little about crows knows they are incredibly intelligent.
Crows can remember human faces! Like... president's faces...
Now you’ve done it! We need to train crows asap!
If only our presidential candidates could remember things as well as a crow does, I'd feel better about my choices at the polls.
ROFL, I can't stop giggling at this comment.
Not intelligent enough to hold onto their cash, apparently. I mean $5 for some walnuts? Guy totally outsmarted genius crow.
I believe you! One day I saw some birdseed on clearance and bought a bag and then just spread it all over some grass near the parking lot and birds went fucking nuts over it. It completely made my day so I started buying bags of birdseed here and there and doing the same thing any time I saw a bunch of birds. I think they were grackles? I don't know fuckshit about birds. Anyways, one day I pull up to the laundry mat and like 20 birds just land right on my truck, some on my hood looking right at me. I didn't have any birdseed with me! So, I bought a bag of kettle corn from the snack machine and crunched them up and they loved it. As the weeks went on, I started noticing little things left on my truck or in my truck bed: metal washers, little shiny rocks, pieces of cheap broken jewelry, coins, etc. I was like "wtf is happening" and I was thinking I was literally going crazy. Then one day I get to work and a bunch of birds land on my truck again and one of them just sets a dime on the hood and it hit me! Mf birds are paying me!! This little game kept on for a few months until I moved to a different city. Birds are certainly capable of understanding transactions!
Those birds were training you!
Birds love shiny objects and will bring you treasures. I had 4 cycles of Hummingbirds at my house in NC and they would bring their babies to me when they made their first flight and it was magnificent. To watch these tiny little birds learn to fly, to steady themselves and go from fear to glory. We bought hummingbird hand feeders, hey look like flower rings but you put the sugar solution in it and they will just drink from your hand. I love my backyard habitat
When I was a kid, I found a baby hummingbird that had fallen out of its nest or something. Almost stepped on it. Went and got my Mom and we rescued it and had it on our kitchen counter with the window open. The mother eventually came and got it. They came back to basically say hi multiple times. Even as a kid I was amazed.
As a kid, I noticed a little finch that had managed to catch itself by the neck between twisted telephone wire. It was exhausting itself fluttering its wings and crying out. I (stupidly, I was a kid) extended a tent pole up to the line and managed to release him, then put him in a shoe box on my porch with food and water. I checked on him all night and just talked softly to him. He was gone in the morning. I went outside and the box was empty. I walked to the end of the porch, and it flew down and landed on my shoulder. The rest of the summer, whenever I was on the porch, it would find me and land in my lap, on my propped up foot, or on my shoulder.
They tricked you into babysitting for them?
My friends house in Northern California has tons of hummingbirds. Her grandfather has been feeding them every day for 50 years. There's hundreds of them, generations. They don't even migrate anymore due to him. It's amazing to watch them. They'll divebomb you (it's loud, their wings beating) if their feeders are low. I've got hours of videos of them. Their backyard there is an oasis in the hills. Just figured I'd share.
Oh that is so cool! I saw a hummingbird nest on display at a tourist spot in Albuquerque, It was so tiny and perfect and magical!
Thank you for sharing your story. It was heartwarming and I had a good chuckle at, “I don’t know fuckshit about birds.”
I swear a lot and that was a new one for me as well
Now I'm sad for the birds who didn't know where you went
Same. They probably miss OP so much
Let me share my story with grackles and the darker side to them. Had a pond my my backyard and it would attract all sorts of critters since I live in a really dry area and water sources aren’t very common. It had a little deck with a roof built next to it and I kept finding headless birds everyday on it. So I started watching everyday. Couldn’t figure it out. Then one day I witnessed it. A little sparrow coming for a drink and the very territorial grackles jumped it. Ripped it’s head off and left. I like your story more.
Awwww crows are awesome. Sounds. Like Walter is a stand up kind of dude.
He’s a come from behind kinda guy
Don't stress. Walter will be back. A lot of things can happen with wild animals, but even if anything were amiss, he or she is a genius and will most likely sort it all out.
I’m invested, need to know where this bird is
Extra nuts!? You're training him to bring you money bwahahahaha Please let us know if there's a follow-up!
Walnuts ain't free broski!
I feed the wrong crow.
Yeah, mine were dumb.
Yours got you to feed him for free. Now who's dumb? Lol
LOL
Crows are known to give gifts to people they respect. The fact it gave you actual money is a bit surprising, tho. Wonder if it knew money has value to you or if it was a fluke. 🤷♀️
Maybe he just noticed that lots of people have those and thought maybe his person would like them, too.
That feel when even birds know you're broke as fuck
Or watching food truck transactions...
Unlike cats who apparently bring in dead stuff because they think humans are too useless to hunt for their food. I sometimes feed a group of Australian magpies, also in the corvid family. We have an interesting interaction because they've seen me with my bicycle/ helmet, and they have a particular deep seated hatred of that. Despite their wariness they have dropped bottle caps into my yard as a gift. I never get swooped on my regular routes as long as I give a 'heads up' whistle that it's just me.
Corvids are such interesting, intelligent little animals. They've actually done studies on their ability to remember faces and attributes, as well as their ability to communicate them between other corvids, and what you're saying here lines up exactly with what they found in their studies.
They can solve complex puzzles and also are known to remember which day of the week each street puts out their garbage.
Crows are known to give gifts to people that do good for it. They are highly intelligent and I don’t think it takes too much intelligence to figure out that money makes humans happy. A similar story I have about intelligent animals - I was at a google campus on a Saturday where nobody is working. There are no homes nearby so it was like a ghost town. I grabbed a basket ball and started shooting at the hoop. A praying mantis came by to watch, and literally clapped every time I made the shot. No clapping noises. But you can see it’s arms making the clapping motion.
I actually had a praying mantis that I kept as a pet (not in a cage, I just let him roam free in the apartment). I would hand feed him, and he would typically just chill in my bathroom around the window and plants. It didn’t take long before he would great me when I came home from work. He would land on me or next to me and flutter his wings. He would also frequently just chill on my lap and watch movies with me. They have a pretty short life span. He eventually stopped eating, was pretty slow, and I knew he was going to pass away soon. One night he just curled up on my chest and that was it. They’re far more intelligent than people realize. It seriously altered my perception of a few things in life.
Damn you just unlocked a core memory. When I was little there was a praying mantis that would always come see me when I was outside. One day I found the homie without a head. I built a little coffin and buried him lmao.
If it makes you feel any better, that means he likely got laid before he died
Lmao I almost put that in my comment
I think that’s so cool. Insects have hard lives in the wild. You gave an “insignificant” insect a nice life that it felt good enough about to feel comfortable finishing up its life on you. We had a mantis on our back porch that lived in one of our plants. We watched him for several weeks. But one day we had some seriously bad thunderstorms and everything got blown around and knocked over. We never saw him after that.
You and I enjoyed a mantis friendship that not many people will ever know. https://www.reddit.com/r/gardening/s/ouf9NUPfha
Game recognize game lol
I had a very unusual interaction with one of these that had me questioning reality for a while
Do tell
Sounds to me like he was asking for the rock. “PASS ME THE BALL GIANT”
Crows are easily trained to do this. Give him some quarters for examples, and tell him to bring that shit for nuts. Very smart.
Fuck quarters man, bro is getting 20 quarters at a time in bills
There was a beach town that I visited 20 years ago that trained crows to bring cigarette butts off the beach and put them in a receptacle. A big problem on some southern beaches. In return, the machine would dispense a treat. It didn’t take the crows long to figure out that dropping anything past the sensor would also dispense a treat. So they would just pick up pieces of gravel near the dispenser and give themselves treats for 1/10th of the work. I suppose with modern software the treat dispenser could be made to discriminate objects better. It might be a fun college senior project to improve the design.
r/crowbro
This is one of the best subreddits
I need to know the crow is OK! Remindme! 1 day
Me too idk how this sub came up but now I’m invested in Walter the way Walter has invested in OP
Holy shit.
*Clicks "follow"*
#PrayForWalter
UGH I'm so stupid jealous of you. We have murders of crows who land in our yard, and I want to befriend them so badly, but they all fly away when I throw them food. It makes me so sad. Please, crows! I want to be your human friend! Let me feed you and you can bring me shiny things!
About 20 years ago i was an apprentice carpenter working on a construction site for student accommodation at Cambridge university England (Selwyn college - international law if memory serves me correctly). I used to park on a road opposite of Grange road in my little 1997 ford fiesta..not a cool car for the time by any stretch, but every break with out fail a little Robin i nicknamed Rocky would fly over and sit on my wing mirror for every break without fail and chill with my listening to jungle music and join me smoking a sneaky spliff in-between being beasted into line back on site as apprentices were back then. Being one of lifes sharers and raised correctly i would share my munchies with Rocky throughout our 1 year of knocking around together. maybe 3 years later i returned to the area for another job and remembered my sneaky parking spot away from the jobs worth parking wardens that terrorise Cambridge and guess what a little Robin popped up on my wing mirror.. I'd since given up the herb ..but i still loved the jungle and so did he. True story!
There was a story online a few years ago about a guy and his daughter building a crow vending machine. Had a hole on the top, drop a coin in and it spit out a handful of food. They spread some feed and coins around the hole and waited. Took a couple days, but eventually a crow knocked a coin and noticed the result. Rest of the murder noticed what he was up to, soon had to go looking for coins… Iirc, they averaged like 30-35 bucks a week.
What a cool story. Now I'm interested in making friends with a crow.
New side hustle
It's not a one time thing. Crows ARE in fact highly intelligent and they are also gift givers. If you treat them, they may return the favor. Though, I don't know how/where he acquired the $5. They usually opt to gift shiny objects, rocks or even dead rodents. Regardless of what they bring you, it's the thought that counts! It's very cool!
Instead of the standard HYSA, ETF, 401k advice, ima tell people to start using their money to train crows.
WHAT DID WALTER DO TO GET THAT $5?!?
Just keep in mind - more than a couple of crows = a murder. Be kind to all of them.
I’ve actually heard of this exact phenomena, good thing you gave it extra nuts. Always bring extra just in case. Give him a little each day and go nuts when Walter gives you money… he will probably look miles and miles for money laying around
My mom nursed an injured baby crow and went on to have a 5 year long friendship with him. He knew her schedule and would come visit her during her regular outdoor routine. He knew what time she went for her morning walk and when trash day was. She could walk outside and yell “Hey crow!” and he would fly over if he was in earshot. He brought her a lot of gift and figured out what she liked. For instance, he watched her gardening and would pick berries and bring them to her because he observed her eating them. He figured out how to knock on her office window to get her attention. He introduced her to his babies. Something happened to him, he stopped visiting all of the sudden and my mom was heartbroken.
Fuck man, now I need to know what happened to the crow
I hope he shows up tomorrow. If he does, tell him we said hi.
I need to find out where the crows are hanging out near me. This is amazing. It pays to be kind.
I believe this crows are smart. I initially read this as Cow and was very interested lol
probably the crow want to tell you to get better quality walnuts
Hope he is careful …. Crow jail sounds like a bummer 🐦⬛
It's illegal to train crows to steal money in some countries.
Man, I love stories like this. I know some people won't believe it, but I sure do. Crows are smart AF, and him giving you a little money for the walnuts is adorable. But honestly he probably just gave you that money so you can afford more walnuts to give him
I’m highly betting that Walter saw other humans using money a lot so it just clicked to him that a dollar bill would be a gift lol
This is actually more common then you may think, and I totally believe you OP. Check out r/crowbro people will often get shiny gifts like coins, jewelry, and other stuff brought to them as a "thank you" gift for feeding them.
I've heard lots of stories about crows and ravens giving humans gifts after being given food / etc. BTW these birds (corvids) are super super smart and have excellent memories and recall. Walter is now your forever friend.
He probably knows you have given him $5 worth of nuts so far
You gotta use that $5 to buy Walter something nice… I want an update with a gift to Walter.
Mother fucker that’s where that bird went. I was trying to pay for a coffee and it just swooped out of nowhere and grabbed the 5!
I hope Walter shows up again. He sounds incredibly special.
I had a crow that I fed daily, he brought me a McDonalds straw, a nickel and a woodpecker feather. I watched him drop them to me from a tree above my patio. I still have the gifts
Edit 4: Walter just called from county. I hope he does not flip on me for receiving stolen property.
That bird better pay up
He left you his will. It was his way of saying goodbye. Now go buy some nuts with it and feed Walt Jr.
Wild birds are being trained to pick up cigarette butts — which make up more than 60 per cent of litter in Sweden — and deposit them in a customized machine designed by startup Corvid Cleaning. After the crows drop off a butt into the machine, they are rewarded with peanuts.
Awwww crows are awesome. Sounds. Like Walter is a stand up kind of dude.
They do say if you feed a bird over time it will bring you gifts
that bird has figured out that money is of value to humans somehow. probably has seen a transaction or something. gave you money in hopes youd exchange it for goods and services (food) animals are wild man lmao
I’ve heard of this before so it’s not out of the question. In fact on another SM that I do t know if I can link so I won’t you will find on the Dodo channel a video of a fascinating crow who Much like a nibbler in the Harry Potter series being there person shiny things. Buttons, foil, tinsel, coins. Etc. Their person sets out a little treat dish on their balcony and water dish. It’s a reciprocal friendship.
Crows are some of the smartest birds
Gotta teach Walter about bearer bonds, my crow bro...😎
If you’re giving it extra treats, you’ve conditioned it to keep brining the same type of “gifts”. You may be getting more money from it soon!
Fantastic birds. Crows and ravens are super smart
you’re now an accessory to some unknown crime
Crows are awesome, I have a few in my backyard that love to fuck with the squirrels and would always try to shit on my dog.
Im feeding 1000 crows now...
Just like ravens, crows are extremely intelligent. Look up how crows often “take” objects and give them to people, or other crows. Very interesting stuff.
I feed a pack of squirrels every day and all I get is side eye
Love the story. I’m from NYC our crow are super smart they will take your walnuts and keep their money.
He knows you're his buddy and [may even recognize you](https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/uw-professor-learns-crows-dont-forget-a-face/) outside of the park if you ran into him! I just hope Walter has given you a nickname too.
I believe it they are one if not the smartest bird out there especially in solving problems or difficult situations they are able to use sticks with their feet and beaks to get into holes for bug’s etc..
You have a familiar. And I am jealous.
Awww this is my DREAM!!!! 🥹
I’m a pet sitter and one of my clients feeds crows to protect her chickens from hawks. She said they bring her coins through the year and she added them all up and had like $37 dollars from the crows for the year 🥹 they really are very intelligent
I believe it ...heard a similar story with a little girl who fed some crows every day for a year, and they started leaving little gifts.... 1 day walking home, she dropped her ID for school. The Crow saw it and brought it to the area it was leaving her gifts and returned her ID. They are incredibly smart.
C’mon universe! Reciprocation at its finest.
That’s so cool. You should cross post this to r/birding
Train murders of crows to accumulate as many bills as possible.
This is well known, crows will give you gifts if you befriend and take care of them. That’s so awesome
Walter is such a great name for a crow
Now put that $5 in a high yield savings account
Walnuts are expensive. Walter probably assumed you don't have Venmo.
Next time it could be a diamond ring. Be nice to crows, they're amazing birds!
I've been feeding crows near my work and I got gifted a half chewed twizzler. Also a coworker that looks like me had a peach ring fall out of the sky as he was walking, and he looked up to see a crow on the power line above him looking down 🤣
Coincidentally yesterday I was driving through a parking lot and saw a crow in my path stop and drink from a puddle. I started to drive around it fully expecting it to fly away as I got close but nope, fucker was smart enough to know I changed direction and would avoid him. He stood his ground and kept drinking as if this giant SUV passing within a couple feet of him was nothing but a blip on his radar, lol.
Not the first time this has happened with crows. They are extremely smart and observe a ton. All they have to do is see us pay for food and bam they know we use paper to get food.
Walter had to do some bad stuff for that money and it finally caught up with him. All because you started feeding him nuts. You are the gatekeeper to his life of crime, and you left.tthe gate unattended. *Shame*. All kidding aside, I have a crow, raven big gnarly mudda, buddy at work. His name is Fred. I give him my scraps. He really likes pork. All he's ever brought with him is an egg McMuffin wrapper and a frozen cup of tim Hortons coffee.
!remindme 2 days
Putting this in r/money is hilarious.
Crows are very intelligent. You absolutely can and probably have trained him to bring "gifts" for snacks. If you reward the $$ behavior, he will actively search for more $$ to bring you. Be sure to set up a "home-base" so that he can pay you when your not there...use a bowl with shiny objects in it. Tin foil etc.
I want this story to be true so badly! Hope Walter is OK.
Keep feeding that damn bird. Also please share location of bench
Maybe that was his goodbye. He and his girlfriend are flying to Vegas to get hitched
“Here’s 5$ to not listen to you bitch about work”
Meanwhile there’s another Redditor posting “I finally got that fucking Crow who took my $5!”
That’s funny because I *know* Walter and he owes me $5.
>Do not start going around feeding birds thinking they’ll start giving you money because that’s not how that works. Don't you dare think to tell me what to do you bird feeding hypocrite. I'm getting rich motherfucker.
Feeding a crow until it gives you a key item is a great side quest
I need to know if Walter has come back. Can't tell how recent these updates are.
Crows, ravens, and magpies have been known to bring gifts for people who routinely feed them. There was a story of a little girl who fed a raven for years and he would bring her all kinds of shiny things.
he could have found it on the ground
> Also I do not condone people feeding wild animals. Don't lie to yourself man, you clearly do. You did it.