5 November 2025

American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) are very intelligent and thrive on solving problems, especially when it comes to food. Those who enjoy feeding crows sometimes provide them with brain teasers in the form of puzzle feeders.

Outside of the breeding season, @Crows_are_SkyCats in Seattle, Washington offers puzzle feeders for crows, young and old. When this video was recorded in February 2022 a group of young crows, members of Seattle’s winter crow flock, stopped by frequently to figure out how to get food from the spinning red containers.

Watch how long it took them to solve the puzzle. These crows are working for kibble.

As SkyCats describes:

Laurel and Hardy here have had several tries with this puzzle and finally found a repeatable solution. They worked on this puzzle for 20 minutes in this session. The solution they landed on is physically awkward, but once they landed on it, they stuck with it. I’m experimenting with a way to make it more comfortable to reach & spin.

— Description of SkyCats video