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Bring stories and images of your encounters with crows, ravens, and other corvids. Link articles and anecdotes. Note here your literary references. Art welcome.

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Can crows hunt? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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My roommate told me that as they went into an urban forest, they saw (or heard) a crow picking pieces of flesh off a still living and screaming rabbit until the rabbit eventually died.

Are crows able to prey on rabbits or was that incident more likely caused by a third, but then absent animal?

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[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

I don't know exactly, but I suspect they can and sometimes do. Just this week I saw a crow terrorizing a duck, duck was waddling around and this crow came swooping in and totally blindsided the duck with feet. Like a literal flying side kick. Duck went tumbling and crow chased after pecking and stamping.

Eventually the crow stopped and the duck was alive, but it definitely had some pains after the short encounter.

All in all it was about thirty seconds, I'd bet the crow could've killed it within a minute, seeing how that duck hobbled afterwards.