For over a decade, the Ruiz Branch library in East Austin has been visited by a group of American crows. Staff members think they're trying to make friends.
For years, a group of crows has gathered at the Ruiz Branch Library in East Austin, sometimes tapping on the windows and seeming to caw at the patrons and staff there. After running into the birds himself, KUT’s Mose Buchele decided to look into their behavior. He filed this story in the style of Edgar Allen Poe’s"The Raven," just in time for Halloween. Over a book-sale shelf they have there near the entrance doorLike an urgent constant clapping high above the lobby floor.
“So we've been having the crow for several years. I'm not sure if it's the same crow, if it's multiple crows,” — Zane Scheible.Flies and caws and pecks and plays here — and the golf course next door.What is it you think this bird wants? Why is it this place that it haunts?“They want to come in. They want to use the library. In addition to the banging, they will also let out their loud noise, their cackle.
“There are some corvids that really readily take to window tapping. Once you get them sort of on a feeding thing, they will just right away become really frantic window tappers trying to get your attention. That doesn't happen as often with crows ... but that would probably be my next explanation," — Kaeli Swift Or perhaps it is their own reflection they abhor.And if they’re slipped a little treat, no harm will they endure.
“Feeding wildlife is almost always a bad idea, but I think that crows are different. A huge part of their diet is already human food. That’s just the reality.
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