Talk:Jackdaw
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[edit] Food stealing habits
If food is such that it can be easily carried away (e.g. a piece of bread), then jackdaw will take it from pigeons. This event is easily reproduced in any city where there are both pigeons and jackdaws. Throw a piece of bread to a pigeon when jackdaws are somewhere nearby (there should not be too many pigeons). The pigeon will peck the piece of bread on the ground. Then a jackdaw will come down, take the bread in the mouth and then fly away with it.
When feeding jackdaws, another phenomenon has been observed. Sometimes a sparrow will carry away the piece of bread that a jackdaw intended to take itself. The jackdaw would then pursue the sparrow in the air. On one occasion, the sparrow hid itself under a parked car. On another occasion, the sparrow let the bread fall (perhaps because the piece was too big for a sparrow), and the jackdaw then took the bread to itself.
Sometimes jackdaws are contemplating taking food from crows, although I never saw them to do it actually. It seems that jackdaws have no fear of crows. — Monedula 12:34, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
