I have lived in Warsaw all my life and it was normal to meet them everyday. We have plentiful. Then we moved to another town but not very far from Warsaw. We live in the new place for four years already. And believe me I have never spot a hooded crow here. I thought they are everywhere before.
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This is how they open walnuts on the car. I have seen it many times and luckily one day I taped it.
See my other post about the bird Julia, also from Warsaw:
Interestingly, when I went for a walk in the lower part of our city, I always saw clever crows throwing nuts onto the road at the traffic light. When the light turned red, they would come down and pick up the nuts that were crushed by cars when the light was green. Kind regards, Jasna, the old gardener
ReplyDeleteI have never seen it personally but someone told me similar story. I think it was my mother... She saw a crow leaving a walnut on the street to be crushed by car. Nice to hear from you :-)
DeleteSono mai stata a Varsavia, mi piacerebbe molto!
ReplyDeleteVieni a trovarci a volte, vale la pena visitare anche Cracovia e non solo Varsavia :)
DeleteOh, those hooded crows own Warsaw! You can't walk fifty feet in the city without seeing that distinct gray-and-black plumage strutting around the parks like they pay the mortgage. The fact that you actually caught them on video using cars as nut-crackers is incredible, though probably terrifying if you're the owner of that car! Corvids are just ridiculously smart. They look at a busy parking lot and see an industrial-scale nutcracker. It’s wild how they figure out urban physics and traffic patterns just to get a snack.
ReplyDeleteI remember once I saw one hooded crow flying with big breadcrumb for soaking it in the stream...
Deletecrows are incredibly smart! I am an avid bird watcher and love our native crows!
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