How to Get Rid of Crows

Crows are extremely difficult to deal with. They are intelligent, wily and fearless and will eat almost anything.

Difficulty: Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Garden Hoses

1. Clap your hands loudly to scare crows away.

2. Squirt them with water from your garden hose.

3. Throw things toward crows to scare them, but avoid hitting them.

4. Contact a wildlife technology company for suggestions.

Tips & Warnings

• Crows are loudest and most annoying when they roost, usually in the early evening, and after breeding, when they are trying to feed young birds.
• Crows may form a mob and set off an alarm cry as they harass an owl, hawk or other animal they perceive to be dangerous to them.
• Crows are protected by federal law but can be hunted in certain states during specific times of the year. Check with your local fish and game department before attempting to shoot crows, or you could be in violation of the law.

[ssarong123]

on 2/16/2009 http://www.absolutebirdcontrol.com/crows.htm I bought the Bird Chase SuperSonic and it works!

[Janiebuilder]

on 11/14/2008 Try aluminum Pie plates tied from sting. This works in cherry trees and other fruit trees as well. The spinning action and the shiny sparkling of light helps keep them at bay. This keeps those nasty flocks of blackbirds that eat your new lawn seed at bay as well. Owls are only good to keep garden snakes at bay.

[Mareelyn]

on 9/11/2008 Our neighbor used a bright spotlight on them. After about 10 days they moved on.
mareelyn

[gpcs]

on 7/20/2008 Karen, I applaud your advocacy of nonlethal methods of dealing with "nuisance wildlife". Too many people share the attitude of our friend "Cops....247." Wildlife is getting crowded out of existence because there are too many people. Frankly it's unfortunate that the "nuisance people" in this world can't be shot and tied to poles. (Just kidding, sort of.)
-George

[Copsblow247]

on 6/26/2008 A law protecting crows is a stupid law and no one is going to enforce it. Shoot one and tie it to a pole. They will not come around it.