Crows.

We ain't crows.

Stone the crows.

Couple of crows.

Crows, I think.

He was shooting crows?

Well, I think these were crows.

Crow Cawing the crows again. Shh !

Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows

We're seeing a population boom with crows.

In fact, that's old hat for crows.

This is a vending machine for crows.

But they're men, not sparrows, not crows!

I hear only the sound of crows.

Bunch of crows... attacked the school kids.

So, this is a vending machine for crows.

So the moral being, don't piss off crows.

So we know that there's lots of crows.

Is there a difference between crows and blackbirds ?

What were the crows after at the school ?

Oh, no, the crows are liable to scare him, maybe.

I think that crows can be trained to do other things.

Crows or blackbirds, if the school was attacked, that's pretty serious.

And this is where we see the difference between crows and other animals.

And crows and other corvidae, ravens, rooks and so forth, are incredibly smart birds.

So, I spent the next 10 years reading about crows in my spare time.

So what's significant about this isn't that crows are using cars to crack nuts.

Crows, on the other hand, show up, and they try and figure it out.

I didn't know there were many crows... in Bodega Bay this time of year.

I keep telling you, this isn't a few birds. these are gulls, crows, swifts

It turns out that crows aren't just surviving with human beings they're actually really thriving.

Video Crows have become highly skilled at making a living in these new urban environments.

But he answered Peter, this night, before the cock crows thou shalt deny me thrice.

And were entertained to discover that for the rest of the week, these crows, whenever these particular students walked around campus, these crows would caw at them, and run around and make their life kind of miserable.

So, it turns out we've been finding more and more that crows are really, really intelligent.

And since that time, all of the crows in the neighborhood are picking up this behavior.

So, when they get really used to that, we move on to the crows coming back.

For example, in Sweden, crows will wait for fishermen to drop lines through holes in the ice.

And crows eventually come by, and eat the peanuts and get used to the machine being there.

So, what's significant about this to me isn't that we can train crows to pick up peanuts.

And of course, we human beings are way out on the end of the distribution like the crows.

But the story of the vending machine is a little more interesting if you know more about crows.

And these crows use sticks in the wild to get insects and whatnot out of pieces of wood.

Flocks of black crows along the bed of the Kamo River peck at the corpses of those who've starved.

And when the fishermen move off, the crows fly down, reel up the lines, and eat the fish or the bait.