Absolutely, crows are omnivorous, eating almost anything, and they readily adapt food habits to changing seasons and available food supply. They belong to a select group of birds that appear equally adapt at live hunting, pirating, and scavenging. Studies show that crows consume over 600 different food items. About one-third of the crow’s annual diet consists of animal matter, including grasshoppers, beetles, beetle larvae (white grubs, wireworms), caterpillars, spiders, millipedes, dead fish, frogs, salamanders, snakes, eggs and young of birds, and carrion such as traffic-killed animals. The remainder of the crow’s diet consists of vegetable or plant matter. Corn is the principal food item in this category, much of it obtained from fields after harvest. Crows also consume acorns, various wild and cultivated fruits, watermelons, wheat, sorghum, peanuts, pecans, garbage, and miscellaneous other items. One of the signs of crow damage is that the grass is totally torn up from them plucking up the turf. This is in contrast to skunks, which are very precise in their digging. Resources: (online) Crows

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