Crow Diet

Crows will eat both plant and animal matter, literally consuming almost anything. During their breeding season, they will eat lots of insects and bug larvae, fruit, nuts, seeds, grains, worms, and even pick the remains of dead animals. They actively hunt prey, such examples are frogs, rats, young rabbits, and mice though they are more likely to scavenge. They will oftentimes eat the eggs in a nest of another bird species as well, and even eat the refuse thrown away by humans.

American crows will actually store food away for future consumption. They prefer to use multiple locations to store their food rather than put it all in one location. They may use a nook in a tree, or a secluded place on the ground where they will cover their food to keep it from being found by another predator.

Crows are somewhat advanced in their feeding habits in that they will hold a nut and use their bill to crack it open. When confronted with a a thicker shelled food item, they will fly high up into the air, drop it, and follow it to the ground and eat it after it cracks open.

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