Yes! This is a heartwarming story. But the opposite is true. If you happen to piss off a crow, your life will become very difficult. You might as well move towns.

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Lumaestro 8 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah this happened to me when I was around 12 years old on my way to school. I spotted the crow one day in the middle of the road and thought it was a raven because it was so big for a crow. Then a car came and I guess it thought I attacked it with the car so it got pissed. Since that day it started attacking me every day as I went to school for about 1-2 years. Nothing too serious though but I had to be on my guard, it would literally position itself right where the sun was so I couldn't really see when it would strike at me if it did - most of the time it just screamed at me 5 meters away.

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thedreammachine 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Here in Australia, magpies do something similar but in a bad way. During nesting season they'll swoop you, remember your face, and keep targeting you. My daughter got attacked two weeks ago.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-30/magpie-swooping-seaso...

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jdthedisciple 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That makes me wonder: If you happened to piss them off, is there a way to appease them again sort of by redeeming yourself and thereby amend the diplomatic relationship?

I feel like there's gotta be

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rootusrootus 44 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

There was a story a few years back about a woman who did that. She was a target, so she tried leaving treats, and ended up converting one of the crows to her side and it then came to her defense against other birds.

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KajMagnus 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Have a friend, in a mask, kidnap one of the crows. Then you appear, and set it free, and give it cookies. (And your friend stops using the mask.)

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ajb 3 hours ago | parent [-]

This makes the assumption that crows can identify people only by the face. It's quite likely they could recognise something else.

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marssaxman 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That is not so much an assumption as a conclusion, backed up by research:

https://urban.uw.edu/news/crows-hold-grudges-against-individ...

https://crowlingo.org/journal/marzluff-mask-experiments-expl...

	▲	Gravityloss an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I think the person meant that it might not be for the mask-wearer. They might be targeted by crows even when the mask comes off because the crows might still recognize them from their walking style or body odor or voice etc.

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KajMagnus 38 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

That's why you use your friend!

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b3lvedere 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So we need to research if we can apologize to crows.