Parrots are not domestic animals. At best they’re semi-domestic - they, too, retain their wild behaviors just as corvids do. One of the problems pet parrots have is that many humans do not understand that and thus do not understand that some “problem behaviors” can not be trained out of them.
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I really didn’t expect so many to respond about experiences with crows.
Yes, I would rather a Raven, if I were to, and probably name it Raven.
If crows sing tenor, the Raven definately sings bass, and a coughy-Louise Armstrong tone.
I used to have a “Crow Pole”, wherein I mounted a 24"X24" platform about 6-feet off the ground; upon it sat an extra, frozen, Thanksgiving Turkey. The local 6 crows ate off this turkey the entire winter. Each crow was immediatley identifyable because of behavior and size. We had names for them all. The next year was a lot of catfood, and any table-scraps. They all came back the next year.
Anyway, my new apartment doesn’t allow crows, and the cop that lives above me probably as well.
I had one for a about four months 25 years ago. I got it from a guy who found it injured, when he gave it to me it was missing alot of tail feathers . It could fly but could not land properly. Whenever he would try to land he would do a faceplant and then somersault. He stayed in a barn in my backyard and could come and go as he pleased. Eventually he got caught by a dog and was killed. Two of the things that stand out in my mind were: 1) Walking around town with a crow on my shoulder always attracted alot of attention and double takes and 2) He attracted a very large amount of crows that would spend the day cawing at him. I am not sure why they did this but the racket was unbelievable some days.
I’ve had three crows as pets – one as a strictly living wild animal, but would come when called and eat from our hands. Bella had been shot by a farmer, and had to have a wing amputated, so she lived with us in a large, wood-framed wire cage. She tended to be nasty tempered, and impatient, but how can you blame her? Lugosi was a young bird that had been rescued from a destroyed nest, and he lived with Bella until he was old enough to be moved to a rehabilitation center. The weird thing was that if Bella was out in the yard with me, I had to watch her closely, or wild crows would attack her. Perhaps they could tell she was injured and vulnerable.
Yes this happened with me too, along aith all the racket.