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What if you want to end a crow relationship?

We have a murder of 50+ that roam our neighborhood. 3 of them hang out in my backyard and love to eat our fruit trees and hang out in the pool. I’m happy to share the pool, not so much the fruit. Especially our precious Asian pears!

These are big suckers and strut around the yard with more swagger than Salt Bae at the World Cup.

My biggest complaint is their trash day escapades. I got to spend ten minutes in the rain cleaning up after them yesterday.

The crows and the squirrels get a lot of my mindshare. I don’t know, maybe that’s some sort of gift.

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Purhase a trash can with a sturdy lid. Problem solved.

Get a bunch of nets for your fruit trees. Not pretty, but problem solved.

Good until the post-holiday trash overflow I just dealt with.

Second/larger trash can?

Bring the trash yourself to a trash collection station, if your municipality/country has those? (Mine does; it's a blessing.)

Stop being so practical! I’m trying to complain about crows!

try to get some good video of them

This task is simple an has three steps: 1) Drive to the shop 2) Buy a shotgun 3) Shoot the birds

When you don't life in the US or another third world country, maybee you need step 0: 0) Get a hunters license

It's illegal to shoot crows in North America.

https://www.audubon.org/news/the-migratory-bird-treaty-act-e...

Crows tend to also be game animals, so states manage the populations and set bag limits, seasons, etc. In my state it is definitely legal, and one doesn't even need HIP registration.

Which state is that? Crows are not ducks or turkeys

Every US state, except Hawaii, have a crow season with state controls.

I would like to believe that, but I'm not seeing anything about it in the hunting regulations for my state:

https://ohiodnr.gov/static/documents/wildlife/laws-regs-lice...

Could you point me to something on a government site I'm missing? Only info I've seen is on SEO spam sites with content likely generated by an algorithm

Search that PDF for “crow”

It’s in there, under Small Game and Furbearer HUNTING

>(I) It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt or take crows at any time except on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from June 3, 2022 through March 5, 2023 and from June 2, 2023 through March 3, 2024, one-half hour before sunrise to sunset.

https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-administrative-code/rule-1501:31...

I'm not kidding. Every state but Hawaii has a crow season.

No, they’re a regulated species, with hunting seasons in most states

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/50/20.133

Thanks for the info. I'm reading that as states other than Hawaii can permit it, but not all of them do.

There appears to be no hunting of crows in Ohio based on what I've found on their natural resource site. Though they could allow it if they wanted to do so.

Airgun would be sufficient for crows and squirrels, is safer to use in densely populated areas, and comes with less regulation everywhere. Still a good idea to check game regulations on your targets though.

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