to toss out peanuts when they yell at me in the morning. They sure are smart.

The only luck I have is with the chickadees and nuthatches.
In this rural area, I’m guessing farmers have shot at crows and cause fear.

People expect greater rewards.

If the machine dispensed a new cigarette lol

If people were smarter than crows. Considering how 48% of our population is, I think it’s unlikely people can be trained

I feel a mixture of amazement and disgust with this news item.

But birds are so sensitive to so many toxins, I can't help wondering how the nicotine residue in their mouths affects them. I don't love making this their job.

It's stirring up the "I hate people" part of my brain, the part that I try to leave fast asleep as much as possible. Those self-sacrificing crows.

I grew up on a bird farm (all sorts of birds from chickens, to emus, rheas, endangered pheasants, an ibis and more birds with over 200 species and tons of babies of all sorts.

So, lol, as far as I know there is no such thing as beak herpes but if there was ever a way to find out...

and install them around town.

(Bio-degradable cigarette filters would be nice too.)

With a butt deposit, refundable would be better

I like the crows idea better.

peck the smokers who throw their butts on the ground until they pick them up. Crows never forget, the would follow them all day, people would never throw their smokes on the ground again.

(this is mostly Though part of me likes it when nature rebells against mankind's attempts to spoil things).