lately at my window there started comming a magpie and 2-3 crows also visit me - they liked my window and they wake me up everymorning - its very nice that wild birds visit me but I wonder what could I leave for them for food I leave peanuts for now I dont know if its good idea - I know magpies and maybe crows love walnuts but I dont have - do they like bread? I know that crows are not meateaters like ravens - what I could leave for them so they to feel good at my window?
2007-01-10 02:52:48 · 7 answers · asked by nightwisher 1 in Pets ➔ Birds
Feeding wild birds will not have the same effect as hand rearing chicks by ignorant people who want to either "raise" them to release or , be stupid and keep them as pets, wild things should remain wild . Just because you start feeding them will not make them forget how to forage. That would be like saying if I put a bird feeder up all the birds will forget how to find food. The principle is that if you start feeding birds during the winter period you keep on feeding them as there will more likely be more birds in that area that it can actually sustain. Don't feed them bread it's bad for them and may cause a number of health problems (from respiratory problems, inability to feed, malnutrition etc.). Peanuts are great, chunks of suet on a platform feeder will be taken readily as well. If you actually want to I'm sure they wouldn't mind a nice mouse from the petsore!
2007-01-11 10:47:35 · answer #1 · answered by crazy.carabid 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Crows are scavengers and will eat meat when they have the occasion, magpies are like them. I would suggest that you don't feed the birds though, because eventhough it might be nice, you are teaching the birds that they don't need to look for food themselves, instead they can just wait for you. By doing that they are becoming domesticated in a fashion. I can promise you that if you do choose to continue feeding them, they will become ever more dependent on you and they will bring their friends along until you have to feed a flock. That is not good. I know of a woman who has been feeding crows for so long that she has about 70 crows which hang around her house all day, squawking and being a general nusience. She is obviously not on friendly terms with her neighbors. Also, the magpies and crows and in a genus called corvus, the birds of which are extremely intelligent. They will begin to take unpresidented liberties with you if you give them and inch. Many of the birds that we get in to the wildlife rehab I volunteer at are there because people feed them and and eventually try to raise some. When the people move, the birds don't know how to feed themselves, so they are eventually brought to the Rehab and many cannot be released. Many of them are absolute nut cases. So, please don't feed them. If you want to occasionally leave food out so you can watch them (not every day so they don't spend all of their time hanging around your house) fruit, especially over ripe fruit, some meat, what ever you have around that you don't want. I don't know if they like bread but I know that they like the rest of the food. Be smart, don't start (I know that doesn't really apply, but I like to have the occasion to say it...).
2007-01-10 03:08:30 · answer #2 · answered by Pip 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What To Feed Crows
2016-10-03 11:28:46 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crows are meateaters. Crows and magpies will eat just about anything. They are the perfect scavengers.
2007-01-10 03:01:17 · answer #4 · answered by edge 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
best info I could rumage up from my bird book was just leave out scraps for them, but generally said you may not want to encourage them into your garden because they eat the eggs of Songbirds.
2007-01-10 08:22:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Philly cheese steak subs
2016-03-17 23:32:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
crows like anything that they can eat!
2007-01-10 03:00:15 · answer #7 · answered by Jennifer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋