Things you need to know about JACKDAWS!
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- Jackdaws are the smallest crow found in the UK, growing to around 250 grams in weight and to have a wingspan of 70 centimetres. They are slate grey over most of their bodies but have a noticeable black cap and light blue-grey eyes.
They roost and feed in small communal groups and can often be seen foraging among other crow species such as rooks and carrion crows. As they are highly intelligent, jackdaws have an extremely varied diet which includes, fruits, vegetables, seeds, carrion and invertebrates but they are also renowned for taking eggs and chicks from other birds nests. With such a diverse menu, jackdaws can manage to eek out a living just as well in woodlands and farmlands as they do in towns or cities.
As well as roosting a feeding communally, they also nest in small groups. These nests would naturally be in tree hollows or cavities but in urban areas they are particularly fond of attics, church spires and chimney stacks. The nest are cup shaped and mainly made with twigs and then lined with hair or wool. Each females lays between 4 and 6 creamy blue speckled eggs that measure 3 and a half centimetres in length. These take 17 to 18 days to hatch and the first egg laid will be the first to emerge. This means that if there is not enough food for all of the growing chicks, the oldest will be strong enough to out compete their siblings and survive. In nature it is better to have 2 or 3 strong young than 5 or 6 weak ones. After they’ve hatched, both parents feed the young in the nest for about 4 and half weeks before they fledge. Just like most other corvids, once the young have fledged they stay with their family group for several more weeks being fed by the parents and learning how to find food for themselves.
Just like other members of the crow family, Jackdaws are extremely intelligent. They have been shown not only to be able to recognise people, but also the expressions on their faces. Within their social groups there is a hierarchical structure with unpaired females being the lowest ranked. However, this all changes when a female pairs up as she instantly assumes the rank of her mate and this is accepted by all the other birds in the flock. Even more to their social structure, Jackdaws have been shown to regularly form same sex pairs, especially if one of their previous mates have died prematurely.
Over the past 50 years, jackdaw numbers have been rising in the UK and there are approximately 3.2 million of them living here. In the wild they have an average lifespan of around 5 years although one that was captured in 2014 was ringed as an adult 17 years before. There have also been reports of captive birds living for as much as 30 years!
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ive just lost my jackdaw, i got him way back in 1998! thats 23 years hes been with me, i saved his life, my cat got him i managed to rescue him and he never left us hes been part of the family for 23 years just lost him to old age i suspect. very sad its broke my heart.
Very sorry to hear this, we recently lost our parrot. They leave a large hole in your life after being with you so long and an even larger hole in your heart.
I tried to rear a jackdaw what fell from a church, sadly it died
I’m so sorry- I had a beautiful baby dragon too - I know the chasm
Thanks for looking after him and giving him a long and good life👍
Sorry for your loss. I just found a fledgling last thursday. Completely emaciated and dehydrated in the middle of a busy pedestrian street. Lil dude is still fighting 🤞
I was lucky enough to raise and release a Jackdaw 2 years ago. 96% wild now but when he returns, he remembers me and my family and will come on our arms to feed still. It's an incredible feeling of trust and gratitude you gain from them in a way.
Mee tooooo!!! Got pretty good at this now!! They all join local colonies nearby and still say hello from time to time. Those months of intense hunting/foraging and danger training are all consuming. Cannot beat watching them start to make new friends and bonds and see them thrive in the wild where they are supposed to.
A Jackdaw choose me to live together , i have not captured her but i found in center city by the streets i brought her to my home and she started to socialize with me till the first day
Now she (she's female i tink ) live in my home from two years
She does not want to fly away...if i take her to the open window she fly back
My bathroom is her realm , i do not never have her in cage and she's very loving with me , often we play together and she often take a bath in the bidet
She eat almost everything , also penne al sugo ..😄
But i buy the right food for her..
She love grapefruit and parmigiano too...
What else...i feel lucky to have her and i love her
What a great story! When I used to do wildlife rescue we had a hand tame magpie (similar circumstances) and it was a joy to be around. I know they're intelligent but this one was extremely clumsy!
Thanks for commenting and have a great weekend!
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Lovely story, i'm sure she enjoys your company just as much as you enjoy hers, looks like you're taking good care of her, i like the freedom you give her :)
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❤❤❤❤ this is beautifully wonderful
Me and my father saved a jackdoor that was stuck in my parents farm house chimney for a few weeks, we had to smash the chimney out to get to it, we first thought it was nesting in there but realized it was stuck! we had to nurse it back to health for over a week, it was so ill and weak that day it was 50/50 weather it would live we was thinking, it was so tame and domesticated we thought as it carefully took the food and water from our hands, as if it new we wanted to help it, It would look at us in the eyes so friendly, as if it had lived with us all its life, never showed us any aggression, we let it go free once it started flapping in the cardboard box 📦 after its week of rest , it flew on to the roof we hoped it wouldn't go down the chimney again but it didn't, it stayed with us for the next 9 years! watching us from the roof or when we hung out washing it would swoop down onto the grass around 3 metres away and just watch us and dig for worms then when making breakfast it would come to the kitchen window we would put out a peace of buttered toast 😀 for its breakfast on the window ledge, it would get one every morning ! So intelligent and it understood we were friends or extended family in its mind? I'm so glad we knocked out the chimney to gain a life long friendship,watching this video has brought all the memories back for me, I thought we has a one off jackdaw but I now know their all special.
Thank you for sharing and caring ❤ we need more of this in the world
Jackdaws have been nesting in one of our chimney pots from before we moved in in 1975.
They often have all their friends round for parties that always end in a fight, just like some humans :)
you need a wire bird gaurd put in.. or if your never going to use the chimney, block it off to the jackdaws all-together
@@michaelgoulding6609 I think they have squatters rights and we rather enjoy watching them.
Jackdaws are so cute, I wish we had them in the states. Interesting video thank you for sharing!
I feed Jackdaws all year around. During the summer i supply them with fresh water and daily meals of oatmeal porage.
There much enjoyment just sitting and looking at them while they do their social stuff. Love the Jackdaws, each their own personality.
These guys are probably my favorite european bird. They're so inquisitive and frankly adorable
Those little fuckers (affectionally, I love them) are so smart its amazing. I got like 8-9 species of birds where I live, obviously I feed them all but jacks seem to get that im a friend and whole feeding routine.
Edit,
Jacks are seriously like little humans but nicer and more civilized.
Ive been thinking the exact same! They really are like little humans, little puppets. Theyre kinda like young kids in a way.
Such beautiful birds. I often see them on the roof/chimney of the building opposite where I live, I'm always happy to see them 😊
I fed a few jackdaws some bread this morning. They're beginning to recognize me, and know what to expect when I come around.
I feed them for several years now, some of them eat of my hand, it's always the same group bc I recognize them very well now. They come sit on my kitchendoor waiting for some food or just looking in what I'm doing when I am cooking or cleaning, it's so funny. Few years ago there was one who came even sit on my lap or my head when I was in my garden. One day to the other he disappeared, never seen him since. I really love these birds they are so bright and clever and very funny too.
Recently the jackdaw situation has gotten out of hand. I have been feeding them nuts and almonds, and my small original crew of barely ten jackdaws has been replaced by a flock of likely seventy. Each time I threw a handful of food on the ground half a dozen or more would leap at it, not counting the few already sitting where I threw.
Your "Did You Know?" videos are always a treat Liam, and this one was no exception. Well chosen clips superbly narrated. Top work mate. 👍🙂👍
Thanks Graham. There will be a lot more of these style videos coming up, until I can afford a new camera at least!
I live on the 5th floor and love to sit out on my balcony in the warmer months and watch the big clouds of jackdaws return to the city to sleep. They often use my appartement building and the one next to mine to sort of regroup before heading off to sleep in the trees of this city.
When I wait for the bus they sometimes come closer to me. But I don't look at them if they get to close as they know when they are being watched and I find that when I turn my gaze they relax a bit and might come even closer.
Jackdaws are easily one of my absolute favorite birds.
Lovely videos. Currently binging them! Big shout out to same-sex jackdaws!
I adore crows in general and Jackdaws in particular. In my North Yorkshire village they are a common sight and nest in the chimney pots on my street, in fact I'm certain on my chimney stack, certainly last year at least!! This was a reaaly interesting video and a massive thumbs up from me.
3.2 Million, and half of 'em are on my feeders all day! Another fantastic video 👍
They must have underestimated as a few people have said the same thing ;)
I'm glad you enjoyed it and thanks for leaving a comment.
i had a pair nesting in my loft, they pecked a perfect square on the facia board to get in. The nest was a work of art
We have a few jackdaws that nest in our unused chimney pots. I find it quite enjoyable watching them mucking about in the garden, rolling about and fighting.
They recognise me at work because as soon as I go on my dinner break in the staff area they all appear around me and start calling each other, waiting for me to share my dinner with them lol.
Great video! I'm in North Holland and these are everywhere. My favorite bird here, they seem very chill.
Thank you!
I have 3 jackdaws that come down daily for peanuts,they do everything together and I call one of them peanut!
I don't see Jackdaws very often where I live, but I see them on occasion when I travel. They're probably one of my favourite bird species, I especially love their calls :)
I have to say, close to home I don't see them very much either but there are a few villages nearby that have jackdaws a-plenty. I am also a big fan.
They're beautiful, smart and funny to look at in terms of their behaviour. Their eyes are the thing standing out most to me and that has a reason I have seen. They are really focused on where animals and humans alike are looking at with their eyes instead of what they are facing. There have been tests that show if you face a jackdaw but look away with your eyes they know you can't see them and when you are facing the other way but look at them with your eyes they know you can see them. Probably the reason they have such wonderfully noticable eyes because they must communicate with them alot aswell.
Here in Sweden, jackdaw's sometimes gather in huge flocks of several thousand individuals. They feed on freshly plowed or sown fields during the day and migrate into cities at night where they spend the night on roof tops or in park trees. (Don't park your car or bicycle under those trees)
At dusk or dawn, when the flock move location, they literally blacken out the sky, and their cries is deafening.
One place you can see this amazing spectacle, is the university city of Uppsala. The city is surrounded by very flat farmland, so it makes sence for the birds to gather in the warmer and safer city at night.
I'm not sure if this is a seasonal occurrence, and the flock splits up into smaller groups when the food in the fields aren't as plentiful.
Thank-you for such a lovely informative vid of my favourite corvid. Really well done 👍
I learned something great today :) Thank you
Brilliant, happy to help!
❤❤❤ thank you lovely lad .
A fabulous bird and love the eyes. Spot on ..they are so intelligent .Many thanks Liam ..👍👋
Love Jackdaws
My favorite animal species! Theyre so interesting to watch somehow. Love them, they never bore me.
Thank you for the video, Sir. Any advice on how to care for one? I brought one home yesterday with a broken wing. They're called "Kawka" here in Poland which is a pun on the word "small coffee" so I named him/her "Kona". What a marvellously super intelligent and curious thing it is! I'm already impressed. It's won me over so much that I'm dedicated now to see it through to care for it's well being, till the end.
I really enjoyed watching I love my family of jackdaws, I had to rescue one out the bottom of my chimney around 2 weeks after my young goddaughter passed away , she was released back to her family after a rest , food and a drink they still reside in my chimney but stay up the top now 🥰
I became a surrogate mother to my Jackdaw 6 days ago. It was only a few days old before it was thrown out it’s nest. Prior to finding him on the floor cold, lethargic and silent I had also found another one a number of days before but that one was dead. This one had fell approximately 20foot from my eves where the nesting couple had been building their nest for a number of weeks with the sound similar to that of a pneumatic drill! Unfortunately the sound was in my bedroom and I had no way of ousting them. I was resorting to banging on my ceiling curve constantly to try and frighten them off. It didn’t work! Anyway, I now have one of their kids in tow and as much as it’s still butt ugly it loves cuddles and crawls up my chest for them. It squawks when he needs a poo and expects me to hold his bum out the way of his bed which I find bizarre? Any sound he hears or my voice and off he starts. Some days I have not had 5 minutes peace akin to a newborn baby but I am waiting for the time he is a little bit older and can shit by himself! He eats a complete pack of Sheba pate cat food daily (I don’t even buy that brand for my own house cats) amongst other tit bits. His feathers are starting to show and eyes are nearly opening too. I’m off to purchase a small dog crate this morning so he has a safer area as my Bengals are eyeing him up for a starter! From other videos I have watched they can stay for up to 4 months after fledging and come back for 3 square meals a day so something else to look forward to. Thanks for your bit of info it has helped me understand them a bit more and hopefully JD will be accepted eventually back into his/her family.
The best pet you will ever have, pray he survives but sounds like all going well as gaining feather, be totally imprinted on you thats for sure :)
@@leighbaylis3623 well everything is going swimmingly so far on a diet of Sheba cat food and mashed bananas lol
He/she is now in a crate in my bathroom but I still have to keep the door shut because of curious cats. It’s still unsteady on its feet but does stand up whenever it hears my voice with its scrawny little neck outstretched. I feed all his food mashed up with a little water and has savoury first then pudding after. I have got meal times down to approximately every hour now up until around 9/9:30 pm and it sleeps all night! It’s feathers have started coming out through its quills but it still feels like a bristle brush when stroked and I use warm wet cotton wool balls to wash its face everyday and occasionally rub it around its body and dry it off after. As I’m not his feathered mum I have no idea how they keep them clean so I’m just doing my best. Best part is now it squawks when it needs a poo so I have effectively got it toilet trained as I aim the rear end down the toilet! Will keep you updated if you so wish.
@@xxYOURBIJOUxx Please do, that would be be great to hear the progression of Jack, lol, thats what I called my Jackdaw and Arny (like Arnold Schwarzenegger as he was big) when I had a crow. They are so great, well cool and they really bond with you and I used to take Arny to the pub garden and people loved him/her its hard to tell as no outward bits, lol. Keeping them clean sounds like you are doing a great job, remember in the nest the parent birds haven't a bath for them so dont worry and just keep on feeding and cleaning up the poop and happy days. The parent birds carry the poo away when they are really young as it comes out in a membrane and then when they get older they just poop away so just make it like a nest and he/she will poke its bum over the edge. They run on instinct more than human babies. Good look and please keep me posted. My email is leeroyinaus@hotmail.com if you wish to send me a photo or two - Thanks....Leigh in England. (Guy)
@@leighbaylis3623 yes I will gladly keep you posted. I haven’t actually took any photos yet but one of my sons did a few days after finding it. I will try within the next few days. Regards Debbie
@@xxYOURBIJOUxx Thank you Debbie and if your son is young thats going to be one great pet as thats when I had mine. Cheers and God bless
i reared two years ago.Jack and Jill. beautiful burds
We have some jackdaws at work, sometimes they will eat out of our hands. They are very tame.
I have recently moved to a house where there are plenty of jackdaws nearby, beautiful to see but they are not yet tame!
amazing
Thank you!
Thanks Beo
Cheers
I had to call out the animal rescue for an injured Jackdaw outside my house, I had no idea of the name but the rescue lady told me the bird was a jackdaw, I'm just here to learn more about them. Hope the bird pulled through
My favourite native bird
"Jackdaw" stay away from my back door... 😉🎼🎵🎶🎤
I have Jackdaws on my chimney. I call them the Shelbys because they are always squabbling between themselves but hate and take advantage of outsiders more!
I've lived In my rental property in England for 8 years. They live in one of my chimney pots, fireplaces now blocked off. I absolutely love them, and have seen the babies leave the nest. Xx😊
Love your passion with wildlife!!!
Thank you!
Another very informative video. Over the last few months I have been challenging the local Jackdaws with different bird feeders as the fat ball cage was too easy for them and they emptied it in around 4 hours! They seem to like the challenge. The current feeders have been up 4 days, they are the smallest caged small bird feeders I could find. The Jacks haven't cracked it yet, but they certainly haven't given up trying. I think they like the challenge.
I've never seen them courting, thank for a brilliant and informative video, Liam. I love all corvids, they are tremendous characters, and so intelligent.
Wow they look like the jackdaw!
A pleasure to watch your videos. I'm a subscriber now. I want to visit UK some day, would love to meet you.
Interesting thank u
Thanks!
Thanks again for your knowledge.
Jackdaw is a beautiful 🐦 bird
I like jackdaws, they're cute
Fantastic post as always 👍
Thanks Craig! I took a trip to minsmere the other day hoping for rutting red deer but they dont seem to have kicked off properly yet over this way.
Hooded Crows ; luv them blue eyes 👀 🎯 ❤️ .
Thank you for the video!! I love learning about birds from other countries!!!❤❤❤
Jackdaws are so cute lovely eyes x
Good video thank you
Fascinating bird!
Cool birds. No wonder Edward Kenway named his ship after them
Occasionally I hear a bang on my roof, jackdaws dropping wallnuts to crack them and eat the insides. Cheecky buggers.
Very strong Robust birds too
Jackdaws can talk too 😊
Great video, definitely my favourite British bird :)
Thank you. I am glad you enjoyed the video.
And mine, beautiful eyes with an intelligence behind them.
Thanks for all your great videos!
Awesome video mate
Yo AC black flag introduced me to this bird
Great stuff, thanks for that 👍
Cheers! Im glad you enjoyed it.
I just found a baby full of lice flies and now he is adorable. Thank you for this!
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Nice video.
Over the last few years their numbers seem to have grown substantially around South Birmingham.
I feel like I see more of them over here in Norfolk too.
Thank you 😊
You're welcome!
I recently planted a fig tree with several unripe figs growing on it and each day one fig would go missing, i blamed the squirrels for stealing them until i was lucky enough to witness a jackdaw land in my garden, walk over to the tree and pluck a fig off and fly away. Hes done this every day for a week, now ive got no figs😂 hes eying up my blueberries now.
Liam I really enjoy your series on birds thank you.
Thank you. There are many more to come :)
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learned a lot here! had no idea jackdaws could have same sex pairs that's really cool!
Thanks, I am glad you learned something new! There are a few birds that do the same, including feral pigeons.
That's interesting but how do you know they are same sex? Can you please tell me how you differentiate between a male and a female?I have a jackdaw, he /she is 6 months old. I've asked a few people who have said there is no way of sexing a jackdaw without having a pluck test as the male and female have no different identifying markings. Thanks.
@@theboyb83 It's just a friendship like two men who might like each others company, they don't have the equipment to have a sexual relationship.
Thanks for that. Very informative. Cool birds. There are thousands of Jackdaws in Krakow, Poland.
I have just found these series of nature video's and I love them; I have a large selection of wildlife books but this is so much easier as I am getting lazy with age, I will subscribe to this as people are always bringing injured birds to me, though there is little I can do and the RSPB and RSPCA are useless.
Great video
Thank you!
Would it be possible to have a short section on Calls ,Songs ,Warning sounds etc of the birds in your videos?
My favourites
I love your videos Liam and I’ve learnt a great deal. Would I not be right in saying that the chough is the smallest Covid. They are found on the south Pembrokeshire coast and now back in Cornwall
Very interesting video 👍 I think Jackdaws and Wood pigeon are on the increase due to the trend of people feeding garden birds all year round creating a regular food supply coupled with ideal nest sites like Conifer hedges for pigeons and disused chimney pots for Jackdaws. Jackdaws are surprisingly predatory even killing baby rabbits, I once watched a Jackdaw kill a water vole .
Wow, I would imagine them killing a baby rabbit but it's surprising they could catch a water vole. I guess they are very intelligent though. Cheers
@@AShotOfWildlife Watched the Jackdaw working along the river bank and each water vole hole he came across he would stop and peer in 🤔 thought what’s he doing, next minute he was pulling a vole out of it’s burrow. I would not of thought a bird of that size would actively hunt mammals. Nature is full of surprises.
Hi Liam….we see Jackdaws in our garden every day they feed with our chickens……however one of our Sussex….sometimes takes exception
and chases them off……funny to see.
In the Spring and Autumn months when the sun is setting, Jackdaws congregate in the sky in a large group (roughly 500-1000) everyday in the town where I live, and it seems like they are calling and gathering everyone up and then they all fly directly over my house to wherever their nests are.
In the same months when the sun is rising, they all leave their nests together in a group and disperse all over the town within a few minutes. I have videos, I should upload them.
This was so interesting I was born in the U.K and now live in NZ
Nice I love jackdaws. I had a young one sit on my hand when I was working . They are so cool
Cheers Alex. I hand reared a few when I used to do wildlife rescue, really mischievous!
Like 13 because That Great and Very Good Job
Thank you!
Finnish nickname for jackdaw is kirkkoherra which means vicar.
I can see why! Thanks 😊
Jackdaws are without a doubt my absolute favorite birds!
(edit: and then right after I wrote my comment, you tell me they use hair or wool to line their nests?
I have a cat with long hair, and after I brush her, I often throw some of the hairs off of my balcony for that exact reason..
..as I figured the jackdaws hanging around in the gardens and roofs behind my house, would want to use that for that purpose. 🤗)
Very interesting.
Thank you.
I'm country-reared (West Ireland) but now I live in town.
I have a particular interest in jackdaws, crows, ravens etc.
Sometimes I have some scraps of food in my coat pockets to throw to the local jackdaws and crows. Believe me or not but they always known when I have food though it's never visible. They are very observant and I think that they do know me.
Are you suggesting that some jackdaws become gay?
Yes they form same sex couples. I have just learnt this too. So interesting
No, it's just a friendship like two men who might like each others company, they don't have the equipment to have a sexual relationship.
It is not true, every chick will wait for the other if they did not get enough food, so that is a false statement about jackdaws! But nevertheless thanks for sharing this valueable video!
Excellent stuff. Anyone know where I can get a hold of that piano music?
They are cheeky things and are too fond of nesting in chimneys.
I need to know about jackdaws.
And now you do, hopefully!
I called a couple Dorian and Doreen. They have started bringing their kid round to feed. I’m not sure what to call it though?
Dora? Or perhaps dorta?
Please could you do a video on everything you need to know about sparrows? If you already have, please tell me where to find it on your channel, thankyou x
Hello. Here is the house sparrow video you asked for :) czcams.com/video/DJlus8c9ZTE/video.html
Please what to feed a fledgling jackdaw fallen from the Nest?
I have head them on British videos. I wondered what they were.
There was a fake one on Nanny McPhee. I thought, that fake crow is making the wrong sounds. We don’t have them in Canada. At least not where I live. Then on an Irish cemetery video, I heard those calls.
Like Magpies, Jackdaws are known to steal shiny things.
Lovely video and commentary. The thumbnail is a bit off, though. Makes the jackdaw look blue.
Thanks. If you enjoyed this then you might like some of my other "things you need to know about" videos.
The colour is a bit off but that's the best picture I could find that was suitable.