I've two crows living in the field next to my house. Every morning they crow three times each and then fly and crash into my bedroom window, clawining and beaking at the glass to get in. They do this on average 3 times and then go and sit back in the tree where they started. Appart from my windows being in quite a mess, I'd be quite interested to find out why they insist on doing this: it must be a little painful and appears to be a completet waste of time. It couldn't be that they fancy me could it?
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Crashing Crows (1 Viewer)
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Dale Forbes
Swarovski Optik, Austria
Hummingbirds hunting my car mirrors
When I lived in Costa Rica (actually fairly near to the Austrian raingforest at La Gamba), the Longtailed Hermits (2.5g hummingbirds) would always fly up to the car, hover in front of the rear-view mirror and peck at it. every day. bizarre.
People often give lovebirds and other cage birds a little mirror which they spend hours "fighting"
Crows are incredibly intelligent, but my take on your story is that the crows were just defending their territory against a (probably paler) counterpart. The window being lighter on the inside than the outside would have reflected the crow's image back to them.
I have seen this happen with lots of bird species attacking anything from mirrors, shiny car hub-caps, the windows of a bus, and my house windows. Basically anything shiny that could reflect back the image of a bird.
Servus
Dale
My alpine birds blog
When I lived in Costa Rica (actually fairly near to the Austrian raingforest at La Gamba), the Longtailed Hermits (2.5g hummingbirds) would always fly up to the car, hover in front of the rear-view mirror and peck at it. every day. bizarre.
People often give lovebirds and other cage birds a little mirror which they spend hours "fighting"
Crows are incredibly intelligent, but my take on your story is that the crows were just defending their territory against a (probably paler) counterpart. The window being lighter on the inside than the outside would have reflected the crow's image back to them.
I have seen this happen with lots of bird species attacking anything from mirrors, shiny car hub-caps, the windows of a bus, and my house windows. Basically anything shiny that could reflect back the image of a bird.
Servus
Dale
My alpine birds blog
