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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.

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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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[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

They absolutely do. We had a nesting pair in a neighbors tree a few years ago. The crows terrorized the park. They hunted baby rabbits, preyed on songbird nests, scooped ducklings out of the pond and so on. They would also grab roadkill and eat it on roofs so you'd be sitting on the patio and the occasional rabbit or squirrel part would come raining down. I used to have a live and let live attitude but not that after that summer. I won't let them nest around us anymore.