What is it?
Jeff, and my sister’s boyfriend, Justin, were out looking at some spots where they could possibly put in some food plots and stumbled across this crazy bird. Mr. Bird was just setting on a branch looking at the two of them, and didn’t even seem to mind the human presence of beavis and butthead (just kidding guys). That is when the fun started.
I’m not sure why, probably because they are guys, but immediately Jeff begins to dare Justin to try to get the bird to jump onto a stick–the bird complies. Then Jeff goes one step farther and dares Justin to get the bird to get on his hand–the bird complies again.
So now Justin has this bird on his hand, and the bird is so comfortable that it starts to climb up Justin’s arm and onto his shoulder. Needless to say, and as you can tell by one of the pictures, Justin was starting to get a tad bit uncomfortable and eventually ended up grabbing the bird and putting him back in the trees.
I am just wondering what everyone thinks about this bird. What kind of bird is it? We are leaning towards an adolescent crow, but I am still amazed by its lack of fear for humans. It didn’t seem injured or anything of that nature, so I can’t figure out why it would be so friendly. Do you think it is just a factor of it’s age?
Let me know what all of you think. We are very curious. Oh, and no birds were injured during these activities. I just wanted to throw that disclaimer in there for anyone who thought they were trying to harass the bird.
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I would have no idea what kind of bird that is but that is too cool.
That’s pretty crazy - maybe it’s just a really outgoing bird - a social butterfly no make that social butterbird oh never mind - adolescent crow works for me!
I thought the “what is it” post was gonna reveal the sex of the baby! I guess I’ll hafta jump over to your next post!
As for this bird…ya got me! I’d say an adolescent crow would be a good guess…sure looks like a crow, but at the same time, not quite. So, a youngster is a good guess. Friendly bugger, anyhow!
We think it is a juvenile crow. I have heard of people training crows, but I have not heard of one just hopping on someone’s arm in the wild. If it had never been exposed to humans it may be the reason it is not afraid of them. Or maybe he thought he was going to get something to eat.
Once when we were camping we saw a man coax a blue jay to eat from his hand, then he put the food on his head and the bird hopped right up there, it was really funny, and the guy seemed really proud of himself until the bird pecked the top of his head.
I think he is a few feathers short of a full bird……
Pretty cool story though, you never know what you will see in the woods.
Who would of ever thought a wild bird would get on my arm so i tryed it and it worked!!!