The things some corvids eat...

[Amoeba]

Someone had left a polystyrene box of chips on the grass and the crows started eating the chips that were left over.

While that rather fatty snack might not do much harm to them, the next thing they started eating would.

Once all the chips were finished, they started to pick away at the remaining sauce. In doing so, they realised that the polystyrene box was in fact soft enough to pick pieces off and swallow. And it must have tasted good saturated in the sauce.

I shooed them off and took it in to bin it, but I was surprised how much of it they'd managed to get through in a small space of time (there was about 3 or 4 feeding on it).

Most of the sides and the lid were gone, it was just the base that was still intact. Will this poison them? They flew away so I haven't seen them since.

[ron1863]

I doubt if the box will poison them. Would you eat chips from a poisonous container

[Gerel]

They'll probably just regurgitate it in their pellets with all the other indigestible stuff they eat.

[wildherbalian85]

Well i was watching a crow have a good pick at the wires/ cables on the back of a street security camera... it was at it for a minute or two before flying of

[Hedera]

They pecked away all the black bits joining the rods on our radio aerial on the chimney. The struts fell off, only two left now!
Every year we get lots of green walnuts dropped, the crows perch on the roof and the nuts slip out of their beaks and bounce down the roof. I watched one bird try to pick a nut out of the gutter unsuccessfully.

[BarbaraEmma]

A few years ago I had something delivered in a smallish box,I can't remember what it was but it must have been fragile because it came packed in polystyrene bits
We unpacked the box and left it on the side and went out somewhere.When we got back our cocker spaniel had eaten every bit of the polystyrene, there wasn't one little bit left. It worried me to death but my husband put the dog food down for him and he scoffed the lot. Soon after we let him in the garden and when he went to the toilet it all came straight through him ,it looked very strange but didn't seem to worry him too much.
The seagulls and jackdaws around here seem to eat every bit of rubish they can find,including chewing gum,chips,sweets along with the wrappers and I've seen them pecking at cigarette ends.I'm begining to think the local council are employing them.

[epops]

the rooks at blyth services on the A1 also seem to have a passion for polystryne they love it