can you get crows in a magpie larsen trap

thekevin4540

can you catch crows in a magoie larsen trap i can loop a crow and put him in it but i cant catch a magpie call bird and any tips on how to catch a magpie call bird

ianoo

yep ,often catch crows in mine ,even with a magpie decoy bird ,,try hanging a dead rabbit in the decoy comp.usually works with the grays and mags

ian

thekevin4540

i looped a crow earlyer today and put him into the trap but it was narley dark so i will put him out in the morning and see how i get on. the crows eye is yellow and he cant see out of it

rock garden

Yeah you can.I have caught many hoodies with a magpie call bird. I remember a local keeper telling me a long time ago you wont catch magpies with a grey crow but . This would appear to be true to a certain extent as i recall only catching 2 magpies with a crow call bird in the last 16 years.;)

johngalway

To date we've caught two magpies with grey crow call birds so it's possible. I'd prefer a larger cage than the standard shop bought one for the GC's, which are a lot bigger than magpies. Not sure on carrion and other crows.

Birdnuts

johngalway wrote: »

To date we've caught two magpies with grey crow call birds so it's possible. I'd prefer a larger cage than the standard shop bought one for the GC's, which are a lot bigger than magpies. Not sure on carrion and other crows.

Carrion Crows are merely a sub-species of the Hoody which replace the latter over England and other parts of Western Europe and are identical to the Hoodie apart from color(they regulary interbreed in areas where both ranges meet like Southern Scotland). In any case there very scarce in Ireland and only regulary turn up along the East coast - good work with the Larsen trap by the way since I've heard its hard to trap Mags using Hoodies:)

LostCovey

thekevin4540 wrote: »

i looped a crow earlyer today

Hi thekevin450,

This is the second time you have referred to 'looping' a crow. What do you mean by that term? Just curious cos I never heard it used before.

LostCovey

Feargal as Luimneach

Birdnuts wrote: »

Carrion Crows are merely a sub-species of the Hoody which replace the latter over England and other parts of Western Europe and are identical to the Hoodie apart from color(they regulary interbreed in areas where both ranges meet like Southern Scotland). In any case there very scarce in Ireland and only regulary turn up along the East coast - good work with the Larsen trap by the way since I've heard its hard to trap Mags using Hoodies:)

Hooded crows and Carrion crows are now considered separate species.
Information here on Irish Rare Bird committee website:
http://www.irbc.ie/topbar/IrishList/IRBC_IrishList(31122008).pdf
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Tackleberrywho

I'll need some help trapping these hoodies, once the old man starts feeding the cattle nuts the come in flocks or 10's or 20's. I only get one shot with the .223 , a good trap should top that!

pinkyfluff

does anyone accidently catch hawks in there larsen traps that go in to kill the magpies heard of this happen quite a bite in scotland wondered did anyone have same experience s here

berettaman

To date we have caught young foxes,cats,rats,crows,jackdaws,greycrows, ravens as well as magpies in our larsen traps. Getting the call bird is the hard part. A larsen baited with eggs or rabbit roadkill does the trick to help catch a call bird..

mallards

pinkyfluff wrote: »

does anyone accidently catch hawks in there larsen traps that go in to kill the magpies heard of this happen quite a bite in scotland wondered did anyone have same experience s here

Yes, both sparrowhawks and buzzards.

johngalway

pinkyfluff wrote: »

does anyone accidently catch hawks in there larsen traps that go in to kill the magpies heard of this happen quite a bite in scotland wondered did anyone have same experience s here

I caught a female sparrowhawk at the beginning of this year. There was a rather tense five minute stare-off as I held the door open for her and she thought about, a) savaging my bare fingers or b) making good her escape

Got some nice photos but I won't put them up as they'll be used by some people for the wrong reasons.

thekevin4540

LostCovey wrote: »

Hi thekevin450,

This is the second time you have referred to 'looping' a crow. What do you mean by that term? Just curious cos I never heard it used before.

LostCovey

if you make a loop of strong fishing line i use 15/20 lb put food inside it and a small bit around it. whan a bird stands in it you pull it and it gets cot around its lag and you pull it in . i catch pigeons crows jackdaws sometimes magpies it will work with evry thing from that size up