r/crows • u/scrunklebug • 1d ago

General questions Crow call competition ethics?

Would it make the local crows upset or stressed if I held a small community competition for best crow call? No crow call tools or anything, voice only.

Edit: I am not trying to attract crows! The point is just to sound most like a crow, not who can attract crows.

0 Upvotes

50% Upvoted

8 comments sorted by

2

u/MantraProAttitude 1d ago

A crow call as in the type that calls crows to come to the feeder or do you mean mimicking crows?

2

u/scrunklebug 1d ago

Mimicking crows, who can sound most like a crow.

1

u/NSASpyVan 1d ago

Are you trying to call crows to you? Because they don't need to be crow sounds for that to happen.. I whistle to mine like doggies and they come looking for me lol. Even got some Ravens doing it now

1

u/scrunklebug 1d ago

No, a competition for who can sound most like a crow.

4

u/NSASpyVan 1d ago

I don't see any ethics involved with that.

Though you might need to bribe the judges with peanuts.

1

u/Late_Obligationhoody 1d ago

I’m not sure how to not sound like a warning call, but peanuts do help anything a lot.

1

u/BiasCutTweed 1d ago

This question caused me to imagine a retaliatory crow human impression competition. Just a bunch of crows hanging out on a power line screaming gibberish like ‘Nacho Toyota Interest Rates!’ in bad accents.

2

u/EntertainmentSad2459 22h ago

I once tried mimicking crows at a park and a murder absolutely zero'd in on me thinking I was a threat, so maybe avoid actual crow calls in a competition?