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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

There’s a crow and seagull war around where I work. Pretty wild sky fights, but otherwise typical bird business. One time I heard what sounded like a tornado of crows outside, so I went out to see if some kind of crow Voltron was assembling. Outside was every crow I’ve ever seen screaming and swooping around one unlucky seagull that was tangled in fishing line and hanging from a tree. I cut it down untangled it and it flew off but what really freaked me out was how quiet all of the crows got when I got involved. I can’t prove it and I don’t know how they did it but I know the crows did this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Crows laying traps for other birds would be wild. Survival books sometimes talk about laying snares for birds in trees using wire.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

That’s what I thought at first too but there were no knots, bait, or hooks. Just a tangled messy of fishing line. When it all went silent and I could see that seagull swaying upside down it felt like something out of True Detective.