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crows are intelligent
Crows are one of the most intelligent birds about. Once saw a program where they had learned to read traffic lights. They would wait for the red and lay a nut under a cars wheels so it would crush the nut and wait for red again to collect. something like that anyway. Magpies (crow family) have learned to dip bread stale bread in the bird bath where I live to soften it. They are the only bird I have seen do this. I suspect the crow has learned to exploit a new food source where you saw this. It could catch on as they pass this behavior onto their offspring and other crows. Hope not.
Crows are one of the most intelligent birds about. Once saw a program where they had learned to read traffic lights. They would wait for the red and lay a nut under a cars wheels so it would crush the nut and wait for red again to collect. something like that anyway. Magpies (crow family) have learned to dip bread stale bread in the bird bath where I live to soften it. They are the only bird I have seen do this. I suspect the crow has learned to exploit a new food source where you saw this. It could catch on as they pass this behavior onto their offspring and other crows. Hope not.