Hooded Crow Care: keeping One of the World's Most Intelligent Birds

[findi]

While the term “most intelligent” will be questioned by some parrot owners, a lifetime of working with birds in zoos and at home leaves me in favor of granting several Corvids (crows, ravens, jays and their relatives) that honor…no disrespect to the amazing abilities of other birds! My fascination with this bird family began when I took in nestling American Crows and Blue Jays as a child, and continued through work with their exotic relatives at the Bronx Zoo. In Japan, I was astounded by the tool-using wild Carrion Crows (please see article below). Among the most captivating of all is the amazingly-intelligent and curious Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix). Large, active and (very!) expensive, Hooded Crows are not for everyone, but the experienced aviculturist can ask for no finer or more responsive pet. Read the rest of the article here Hooded Crows as Pets: Keeping the World?s Most Intelligent Bird
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Thanks, Frank

 

[RavensGryf]

Frank good to see you again. That was an extremely interesting article (but then they always are!). Beautiful birds...

I'm curious, you say they can inflict a VERY serious wound with the beak. How do they do it? Do they have much beak strength? Or more in the form of pecking with strong neck muscles and the force of it's weight behind it or something like that?