Crow-Cams Show Crows Use Tools

A few months ago the kids and I were watching a documentary on birds. I wish I could remember the name of it to share here with you, but I can tell you what intrigued us so. Crows are smart and adaptive. It showed footage of crows in cities. In the wild a crow will drop a nut from a high distance hoping to hit a rock below and have it break open. In cities, they have learned they can do the same trick on our city streets. But of course the traffic can make that a wee hazardous. Well, get this, we watched in utter amazement as a crow dropped his nut into a crosswalk. A car ran over it and when the light changed and people started walking across the crosswalk, the crow went along, picked up his goodies and left before the cars started moving again! That's incredible and it's true!

Scientists have attached mini-cam to New Caledonian crows which live in mountainous forests on islands in the South Pacific. And what they learned in a few hours was astounding! These crows use grass and sticks to get bugs out of holes in trees. They also use blades of grass to flip over loose debris on the ground looking for bugs and if they like a particular tool (it does a great job), they actually carry it with them from place to place! God's creatures never cease to amaze me!