Thread: How smart......??

Is it a raven? they are said to be very clever birds....that is pretty smart what ever the breed of bird

Pretty amazing

I remember as a kid watching a documentry by David Attenborough, Life of Birds. I think it may have been the seem type of crow, they fished wood boring beatle larvae out of rotten logs by poking bits of stick in the hole; so the larvae would grab them in their pincers and pull the larvae out of the hole

bloody amazing

Paul

There was a story in the Courier-Mail last week about 3 pigeons who took turns to turn on a water bubbler so the others could drink and bathe.
See Not just a bunch of bird brains | The Courier-Mail

My mate Ray used to have a pet crow (common variety) called "Chalky", and Chalky would follow Ray everywhere, often sitting on his shoulder, but wouldn't go close to anyone else.
Ray fed Chalky scraps of food and sometimes pieces of raw meat.
Chalky would store any surplus food (Common practice for crows and magpies) in the cracks in the mortar between the bricks of the house, and my most vivid memory of this bird was one day when the resident tom cat (around 8 Kgs or so) was attempting to remove Chalky's cache of meat from the cracks with his claws, seeing the crow pulling the cat backwards by the tail!
Regards
Glen

Impressive... just looks like a crow to me. Doesn't look to be a raven

In saying that, i was absolutely captivated by ravens when i saw them in london... bloody massive and impressive birds.