Re: [cobirds] A Murder of Crows (or by...) - Denver County

Early last month at the Moose Visitor Center (Jackson Co), as I was watching the feeders, a crow flew down to attack a small mammal, possibly a vole. The crow repeatedly jabbed at the mammal, picking it up and dropping it. The vole attempted to scramble away, but was apparently maimed by the initial thrust. The crow repeated the attacks multiple times and finally flew off with the critter.

Chuck

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 11:21 AM, 'chrisblakeslee' via Colorado Birds <cobirds@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Dear COBIRDS,

Yesterday afternoon Lynn Willcockson e-mailed me the following:

"About 20 minutes ago I witnessed a Crow attack a Grackle and kill it.  The Grackle was hopping around on the ground and the Crow flew down on top of it.  There was a struggle but the Crow won.  After the Crow flew off I checked and the Grackle was still breathing but not able to move."

 

"I have never seen this sort of behavior before or even heard of it - have you??"   Lynn

Has anyone had any similar experiences?

Thanks, Chris

Chris A. Blakeslee

Centennial, Colorado

CorvidColo@aol.com

P.S.  Lynn added, some people have said to me — "Can I borrow your Crow to take care of the Grackles in my yard?" :-)

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