Maybe it’s not strange behavior, and totally normal for crows to do this, but here’s something amazing I saw crows doing once. And only once, which is why it seems weird.
I was eating lunch outside at work in the evening on Summer, and there was some crap on the ground, like french fries or a piece of chicken or something, don’t remember what. A seagull came and landed and was slowly going for it. I was close so it was wary. Then this crow shows up and lands some ways behind the seagull and starts wobbling really fast towards the food on the ground. (you’ve ever seen a crow walking really fast, it’s hilarious) It goes passed the seagull, grabs the food and flies off.
But as it flies away, on the other side of the parking lot, a shit load of crows fly off at the same time and scream like mad as they do. The poor seagull was scared shitless (as well as me) and flew off like a maniac. I never even knew they were there until they did that.
It was easy to think that the crows were encouraging their buddy or something, or being all like, fuck yeah you got it man! My guess is they wanted to scare the seagull so it wouldn’t attack the crow as it took off with the food.
I’ve once seen a seagull attack a crow in the air. The crow had something in its beak and the seagull just wouldn’t give up, trying to peck at the crow or whatever. They were flying, was hard to see, but seagulls are some vicious birds.
So I got to witness what I believe to be crow teamwork. If someone who knows about animals wishes to elaborate on what I saw and what it was about, that would be cool.
Crows are neat. Yet again I’m sitting there at work, eating outside, and there were two crows on top of a building. They were just sitting there, and I wasn’t hungry anymore, so I took the rest of my sandwich and left it at the foot of the building. I didn’t even have time to go sit down again that the two crows descended and grabbed my sandwich and then were off with it.