shot a crow,all hell broke loose. :)

What are the rules on pest animals such as crows anyways? I can't find anything regarding them other than there is no limit or closed season. Are you obligated to eat them? Can you leave them in the bush or do you have to gather and discard them.

Thanks for any clarification.
 
I saw a documentary once, that showed that crows have one mate for life (there's a term for this, just can't remember it) and when one dies, they have been filmed observing a moment of silence. I think it was National Geographic...quite an interesting study on their social hierarchy and all that.
 
OEM said:
I saw a documentary once, that showed that crows have one mate for life (there's a term for this, just can't remember it) and when one dies, they have been filmed observing a moment of silence. I think it was National Geographic...quite an interesting study on their social hierarchy and all that.
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This is just animal rights crap. I don't know about crows, but geese are also supposed to 'mate for life". This just means that as long as they are both alive, they will be a pair. If one dies, the survivor will find a new mate.
 
I just picked up the carcass and tossed it in the deep grass. Birds rot incredibly fast. I wanted to hang it from a tree but i doubt it would go over well. :)
In B.C you can kill magpies and crows as well as their young, but not Ravens.
And yes. Crows are incredibly intelligent and i saw the program on tv about how they recognize faces. Pretty amazing. Its very quiet around here right now. :)
 
Rickyy101 said:
learn to speak their language and their ways, become their leader and take on the world with your army of darkness
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no one listen to this guy... that's a BAD idea.

fkin birds...


They had a real problem with them in the Dutton area a couple years a go, I remember a picture in OOD of two hunters on a cull, literally a pickup truck FULL of crow carcasses.
 
About 20 yrs ago one evening the crows were migrating over in our area. I hid behind the wood pile behind the house and dropped 23 of them before no more would come near with all the racket the wounded ones were making.

For about the next ten years not a single crow that I ever seen would come within 100 yds of the house. They would fly around it in a wide birth like we had the plague. They certainly seem to have long memories.

I don't know the life span of a crow or the extent of there communication system but they sure passed the word along. My house must have been marked with a big red X on there charts. I was very impressed by there abilities to communicate my place as being a no fly dangerous area.

They have been coming back around the house now for several years, in fact we have two families of crows that live here on the property. Some sit on the front lawn every morning to see what they can scounge from the bird feeders.
 
Peta, dont hate my deceased grandfather, but he caught a baby crow years ago and wondered if he could get it to talk like a parrot. He split its tongue, and cut it loose from the bottom beak so it had more movement. He talked with it quite a bit and claims that it could repeat some simple words. Unfortunately it was before my time so I cant confirm or deny, but he wasnt a bullsh!ter by nature. If you put in your time an effort, you could catch your crows and teach them to sing songs by Waylon Jennings. Would be relaxing instead of aggravating.....
 
I used to hunt crows quite a bit and after shooting one I would immediately change the call to that of a wounded bird to get the rest of the flock to come back and 'help' their buddy. I swear they are all Seal Team members because they never leave a man behind!!! :p
 
They don't come around my place anymore. Had a problem with them destroying nests of other birds on the property. The robins and mournign doves had a pretty tough year last year with all their eggs, nests, and chicks destroyed, so after a quick call to find out that yes, it is open season on crows year round here with no limit, I decided to have at er! Co incidentally, they're the only "pest" species legal to kill here. The starlings, european sparrows, magpies, pigeons, blackbirds et cetera get a pass (sometimes, i DO miss Ontario :S)

After I got a couple with the .22 pellet gun, they would all fly away when i went outside. If my wife or kid went out, they didn't care, but ME they knew to bugger off. I slowly got a few more of the stragglers and stupid ones, and it got to the point that they would stay away if my car was in the driveway, and leave when they saw me pull in. Then, one day, the old lady went out and got one when I wasn't home. I haven't seen a crow on the property for 6 months at least.

Similarly, my dad got a couple with his compound bow. They didn't care if he was outside, but if he came out with a bow in his hands, they quickly learned that the effective range was abotu 70 yards and stayed out past that. He then got a couple with the .22, and now, if they see someone with a gun, they stay abotu 150 yards away from the house.
 
We used to blow really hard on an old duck call, and the adult crows would come in, thinking it was a young one in distress. Then we would cut loose with our fully automatic Cooey 84's. :p
 
Crows have specific calls they make to inform others of what they want them to know. IE. danger, come here etc. CrowBusters.com has some examples you can listen to if I remember right.
 
shotgunning, if you get the first one they'll hang around and a frenzy can start up very quickly. What amazes me is how a bird that appears to be a predictable even somewhat ponderous flyer can suddenly become the most incredible acrobatic stunt flyer! Diving, turning spinning tumbling swooping right down to the ground with high speed passes to check out fallen comrades. They seem to become oblivious to camoed shooters the sound of gunfire in their frenzied state. You normally never see crows perform these types of moves but get them going and they really are the most incredible flyers!
 
OEM said:
I saw a documentary once, that showed that crows have one mate for life (there's a term for this, just can't remember it) and when one dies, they have been filmed observing a moment of silence. I think it was National Geographic...quite an interesting study on their social hierarchy and all that.
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Monogamous is the term.
 
Crows - I hate them!

In the city (Ottawa) at least, they will rob the nests of any other bird and eat the young. Between crows and free ranging house cats, we see very few fledgling birds,:mad:. At the cottage though we have robins all over the place, even during this dry year.:D

At our cottage where we feed birds, nuns (Chick Monks;)) red squirrels 12 months a year with sunflower seeds, last year I treated myself to a Daisey Red Rider and a big container of steel BBs. So on July 1st weekend, most of the family at the cottage, several crows were under a bird feeder picking up dropped seeds. With my trusty lever gun, I took a shot at a crow sitting on the retaining wall where our lot takes a 45 degree slope to the water.

A very lucky shot and I hit what had to me a young one from the rear. The BB must have gone in through the feathers and hit a wing, because he squacked, tumbled down the bank with 3 or 4 other crows raising hell as he hit the water. :eek: Laugh2

As a kid when all I had was a sigle shot Daisey, I would only use lead BBs bought in bulk, spitting one from my mouth into the barrel as I cocked. They seemed to be better than the gold colour steel BBs and I intend to find some lead ones. The extra mass does make a difference.

In PQ, I believe that the small game licence permits crow shooting all year long but grackles only become targets I think on July 15th. Be that as it may, while Blue Jays may also be shot now, I can't do it are they are such a pretty bird. Chippies and reds I very much appreciate but black squirrels which come out of the bush, I hasten away with the BB gun. When black squirrel season does open, I will be hunting them with my 10/22 and will eat them.

But I will not eat crow!;)
 
I used to hunt them extensively during winter, at their Maces Bay wintering ground in NB.

Once they flew out in the summer, they'd recognize me all over the region when I saw them. Once I had a bunch follow me home and crow at me through my windows.

I love watching crows - they're smart. But they're also ruthless killers in packs, so I shoot them whenever possible.
 
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