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There is a thing for controlling magpies here called a Larsen trap, you have a lure bird in a cage and another cage next to it with a collapsing roof. Magpies cannot abide another bird in their territory so will descend to the trap, land on the roof and fall through to meet their doom later in...

No idea ATM, I don't think that a return is possible, he'll just be killed by wild ones,I'll pop round and see them soon to find out, they research stuff on the internet so they're not foolish about it.

I think he's old enough to survive, it's been a couple of weeks now and he's thriving, the crow family are adaptable feeders.

So, a couple of weeks ago I was taking down an oak tree, I rigged the top stem off and when the rope caught a earth/twig nest flew out with 4 (I think) magpie chicks. I could see them from up the tree on the ground. Always sad, but anyone who takes trees down all year round has seen this. I...

You did your best, clipping his wings/caging him was not a good option, fingers crossed.

Maybe he'll just drift away increasingly. He's still quite young, if he's socializing with other crows that has to be a good sign.

That's right, there's nothing like pulling up on a bike with a crow on the handlebars to impress a girl.:D Beats a range rover vogue every time!!!! Glad to hear Hank has taken to his wings.

Ps the English naturalist Phil Drabble raised a crow and wrote about it in a book, possibly called "a weasel in my meat safe" Read it as a young man. Looking for it I came across a thread in the IFF falconry forum when a guy raises a carrion crow, might be worth checking out.

Good pics, thanks.:)

Well, crows can also mean most corvids, in the UK jackdaws, rooks and carrion crows are often called crows. I don't know what they have in Japan. I'm sure we'd all like to see the little blighter

From what I know it is unlikely to fully return to the wild as he would be attacked by other crows. Here, to catch magpies they put a tame or captured specimen in a "Larsen trap" the locals cannot abide to see and hear the intruder, one by one they land on the trap where they fall in to meet...

Just catching up on this, I think that in the wild the parents entice the youngster to fly by withholding the foot out of reach, forcing the fledgling to take the leap of faith.