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This is going to sound witchy, but have first half experience it works lol.

Get a stone bowl, with a crow effigy on top in center. Ideally put it near the nest too.

Fill it with a few berries and chopped cashews, along with shiny pennies, a colorful feather, and 2 small crystals (the cheap tumbled kind like tiger’s eye, crackle quartz, and goldstone).

Below it have a sparkly shallow dish filled with water, and under it a narrowish glass filled with water (one is for bathing and the other for drinking).

Everyday, at the exact same time, refill the bowl with food and a single new crystal, colorful feather, or shiny penny, but do so while holding the offering above your head. Then refill the waters if needed.

You’ll be extremely close friends real fast.

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AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I once had a crow friend who would knock on my window if I was late coming out to give them their seeds. It was just the one crow that was bold enough to do this. Sometimes he’d do it way earlier than usual, and I am 100% confident that he wasn’t mistaken, just being a cheeky asshole and trying his luck. I miss that asshole bird.

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- bstix@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  You were late by crow time.
  
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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Get a stone bowl, with a crow effigy on top in center.

I would be willing to bet that it works just fine without this

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- Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It’s to help repel the other birds that aren’t crows a bit more, while the crows quickly figure out it’s not alive and a symbol for them.
  
  Or so I’m told. Maybe I should start a Kickstarter to help fund a double blind experiment and see what crows prefer:
  
  Effigy, No effigy, Effigy of a different bird
  
  And then set up many of these little crow shrines around and see how they do
  
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  - prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I know crows are can be smart, but aside from an exceptional one here and there, I sincerely doubt a bird is going to see an effigy of a bird, and recognize it as a picture of them.
    
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    Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I’m no bird scientist either, but I do know Crows pass the mirror test, so it makes sense to me they could probably recognize other Crows
    
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- MathiasTCK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Instructions unclear, angry murder
  
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