Not content with raiding garbage cans and scavenging for worms and seeds, crows in Port Hueneme have now begun devouring other birds, according to a local resident.
"It looked like a sparrow to me, but I guess it looked like lunch to the crow" said the resident who prefers to remain anonymous due to potential gangland style reprisals. "The smaller bird was flapping his wings and trying to escape, but the crow was holding it down and pecking at it. I tried to break it up, but the crow carried the other bird into the high branches of a eucalyptus tree and kept munching away. It was the most horrible thing I've seen since those seals were crawling up on the beach and dying a few years ago."
Port Hueneme is well know for its abundant bird activity, but this is the first known case of crow cannibalism.
"I used to think crows were unfairly hated because of that annoying sound they make," said the local resident. "But after seeing what I saw today, I think they are just as scummy as seagulls."
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Crows naturally prey on smaller birds, just as Eagles and owls do. Strange nobody thinks eagles and owls "scummy" for doing the exact same thing. It is a natural behavior. Nobody blames eagles for being predators, why blame crows, which in university studies have proven time and again to be perhaps the smartest creature after humans, outsmarting apes in various tests.
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