-A crows intelligence is arguably on par with a chimpanzee, they don’t need your help.
-They are a wild animal, not your pet.
-We live in an urban ecosystem, extremely fragile and less resilient, easily impacted.
-Crows are an apex species, extremely territorial and aggressive. When an apex species is provided with a sustained food source, their population flourishes-putting stress on their own population and the ecosystem they inhabit. i.e. they haze, steal and kill the other birds at greater rates. This is currently happening in Portland.
-Putting food in a centralized area puts all critters involved in harms way, all too often food is placed in the road- making it easy for cars and prey to pick off animals gathered. They also defecate where they eat, so diseases like conjunctivitis can be spread amongst birds and worst of all it attracts rats.
-Chances are good crows diets never consisted of bread, cheese puffs, popcorn, pretzels, peanuts, dog food or whatever else garbage we see people feeding them. lt’s not healthy for anyone.
-There are 200 native species in this city, enjoy them all, with your eyes and stop feeding the crows.

9 replies on “Stop Feeding the Crows!”

  1. We do not live in a dictatorial society.

    There you go again, blanket statements trying to control the behavior of others. If you see someone feeding crows, the most effective way to influence their behavior is with an honest heart to heart personal conversation.

    As a crow feeder myself, I can tell you that we all could use a bit more human interaction.

  2. Nicolas Cage has a crow as a pet.

    Maybe we should all take in a crow?

    We could teach them to deliver small goods or attack racists?

    Yes. A murder of crows to descend on proud boys. Epic.

  3. Humans feeding wildlife kills them. But don’t try to convince anyone who feeds wildlife otherwise. My asshole neighbor fed the crows all sorts of shit – from hard boiled eggs, to sliced deli meat, to McDonald’s French fries.

    Thankfully where I live feeding the birds involves a $700 fine. More than one of those fines and assholes stop feeding the wildlife. And then they got evicted. Of course their nasty buffet of crap for the crows brought out all kinds of other wildlife (raccoons during the day and rodents) and now we have a murder of crows that have never gone away, waiting to be fed garbage food by garbage people again.

    People feed the seagulls all of the time here at the beach, too. The number of seagulls in the McDonald’s parking lot is astonishing.

    People are assholes. And they will never change.

  5. No one is feeding crows. You are paranoid, hysterical, manic and crazy for even suggesting such a thing.

    It’s best that we simply ignore the idea of people feeding crows. It’s not something that should even be acknowledged publicly or privately. After all, if people were really feeding crows someone would be doing something about it and we would hear about it somewhere. But since we aren’t hearing about it anywhere and no one is even discussing the idea of people feeding crows, it’s goes without mentioning that that isn’t happening.

    Honestly, you should get your head checked out or find some sort of medication, people don’t feed crows, and if that were to happen, we certainly wouldn’t acknowledge that reality.

  8. @3

    “Thankfully where I live feeding the birds involves a $700 fine”

    This is The PORTLAND Mercury. We’ll keep feeding the crows. Stay in your lane.

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