Recently, crows have been seen more and more frequently in housing developments and in fields.
It is not uncommon for them to bother many residents with their loud croaking and excrement.
Walter Wintersberger from the LBV gives tips on how to deal with the birds.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen - Are the crows really getting more and more or is this impression wrong?
“Personally, I cannot observe a sudden increase in the carrion crow population, at least for the southern district,” says Walter Wintersberger, chairman of the State Association for Bird Protection (LBV) in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district.
If you feel annoyed by the birds, Wintersberger advises you to cover your compost, if available, and not to throw any leftover food on it.
Other means are of little help: "Corvids are very intelligent animals and can hardly be impressed by scarecrows or hanging dead conspecifics."
Crows belong to the corvidae family
Wintersberger has not yet heard of complaints from farmers that crows are eating the seeds.
“But I don't want to rule out that such incidents can occur in our maize cultivation.
Carrion crows and rooks often appear in larger flocks as social animals.
If a food source such as corn seed is found, the birds use it accordingly. "Wintersberger can quickly explain the difference between raven and crow:" We use raven or crow to refer to one and the same bird - namely the carrion crow - used.
In the corvidae family, the larger ones - like the common raven - are called ravens, and the smaller ones such as carrion crows or rooks are called crows. "
No known attacks by crows on people in the district
In spite of all displeasure, according to the expert, one should not disregard the fact that corvids, as omnivores, also serve us humans well by ingesting white grubs, other agricultural pests and carrion. In addition, the rook, which, according to Wintersberger, is the species that forms colonies, is under nature protection and may not be hunted. Attacks by crows on people, as has often been heard from Munich, for example, have not yet occurred here in the district, according to Wintersberger. “I don't know anything about that. In these rare cases, people have mostly unknowingly come too close to the nests or fledglings that have already flown out, which are then defended by the parent birds. ”According to the expert, buzzards, tawny owls and swans also behave in the same way.“These are mostly bogus attacks. If you move away from the defense area of the birds, they stop the attacks immediately. "
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