Early last month at the Moose Visitor Center (Jackson Co), as I was
watching the feeders, a crow flew down to attack a small mammal, possibly a
vole. The crow repeatedly jabbed at the mammal, picking it up and dropping
it. The vole attempted to scramble away, but was apparently maimed by the
I watched a crow in IA raid a robin’s nest repeatedly and fly off each time (4
times) with a nestling, probably to feed its own nestlings. Poor robin parents
harassed the crow each time, but not much they could do. That was the end of
that nesting effort. Presumably they started over.
Lynn, Chris, et al,
The incident described to Chris by Lynn does not sound like simple predation to
me. The crow did not make off with the grackle and didn't even kill it, at
least not immediately. My guess would be that this crow has some experience or
instinct about grackles being egg
