
In Van Gogh’s”Wheatfield Under Threatening Skies with Crows,” crows are shown at the middle plane of the painting, like an ill-fated force, between the menacing skies along with the grain. True, the crows have your eye on the grain, but they are also unpredictable and playful. Although they act as though they don’t even recognize the presence of a person nearby, these birds are always well aware of their surroundings.
I had never thought of crows as pets until I entered the office of someone my husband knew and found a big black crow sitting on her mind. This lady was an animal lover and a certified pet care-giver; she’d discovered this crow hurt and had cured him back to health.
She told me, although she let him free in her backyard, the crow came back to her. She kept the crow locked in a cage; though there was a cage with the door removed in her house. This lasted through the summer.
It may have been sad for that lady to see her pet depart, because that crow was so bright and loving, but because the woman was so knowledgeable on the subject, she understood.
Never think of a crow as a pet; you should not even attempt to get, catch, or buy one. To begin with, under the Migratory Bird Act, it is illegal to hold a crow and a permit is very difficult or impossible to obtain. Should you, however, find a young nestling crow thrown out of its nest and if you reside in the middle of a wilderness, you may try to nurse the bird to maturity, with the understanding that he will one day leave you.
If you find a hurt wild bird and do not know how to attend to it, take him to a vet or someone licensed in bird care. Around where you live, if you don’t know anyone qualified for the job, call your state’s wildlife jurisdiction or locate an Audubon center close to you. You can do so on the web site by entering your zip code.
Helping out an orphan crow is easy because crows will eat practically anything. A great basic diet for such a bird ought to contain bird vitamins and calcium, oatmeal, pest control bats, hardboiled egg-yolk and some ground beef to compensate for the insects most birds are so fond of eating.
If the bird is very young, he’ll need to be handfed. Do not be afraid to put your finger gently in its beak, since baby crows eat from their mothers’ beaks. By the time the crow is just six weeks old, he will feed himself. Give the bird enough room to fly, like a room.
Crows belong to the household of corvids and they fly in huge flocks across the cities, suburbs, and the countryside. Magpies, jays, cloughs, nutcrackers and a few other birds are related to crows. Most of the crows are black but there are blue, purple, brown, gray, and albino crows in existence.
Crows, as very intelligent animals, are known to mimic human talk and engage in games among themselves. Even better, they’ve shown themselves to be too smart to be scared of scarecrows.
With their unpredictability, crows have encouraged human creativity and have placed themselves inside many myths. Nevertheless, like humans, they possess their own kind of lifestyle or culture that deserves to be respected.