Etistta 17 inch Realistic Hanging Dead Crows Decoy Lifesize Extra Large Black Feathered Crow

I'm a duck farmer, and was suddenly finding holes pecked in all of the eggs laid in the yard. Very frustrating. After a couple weeks of this, I finally saw the culprit, one singular crow. Eventually he brought friends. This was war. I shopped around for fake owls, none of them were suitable because they would also scare the chickens, and crows are smarter than that. I happened upon this thing, saw the awesome reviews, and as soon as it arrived, I hung it outside near the poultry area. Next morning, and every morning since, ALL the eggs were intact, and no sign of the crows! I'm so grateful for this. I named it Russell.

This really works! I used it about a year ago because we were being harassed by a crow. A day or two after we put it down (cut off the strings and laid it on the walkway) the crows went nuts! There must have been about 50 crows squawking in flying around it. They stopped bothering us after that. It looks so real I get startled every time I see it. lol

Realistic "dead" crow! So far it seems that the crows are wary about this dead crow. It sure looks dead to me. This seems to be the best deterant in scaring the crows out of my yard. They are persistent in trying to rebuild an old nest in my spruce tree. Their early morning cawing is bad, but the food remnants that they drop is dangerous to my dogs, especially chicken bones. Hopefully, the strobe lantern, bright pinkish kites, and these dead crows will get them to leave for good.

Life size and very realistic. I hope it holds up outside. I take it down in bad weather.

I bought this effigy when we were having an issue with crows - the neighbor uphill of us tends to feed and attract them and since we are the first house downhill of her, the crows seem to gravitate towards our Spanish clay tile roof to break open peanuts and our gutters to cache more. Our roof and gutters are also very high off the ground which gives them a good vantage point. Anyway, I was getting tired of hearing constant pecking on the roof and it got to the point where they were becoming brazen and hanging out on our driveway and on our cars, so I decided to take matters into my own hands and this effigy was part of that strategy. Using it in conjunction with a small owl statue, crow distress calls followed by eagle/hawk screeches and a green laser pointer (all behind the window and shades), I was able to mostly dissuade them from gathering around our home and roof... well at least for the time being.I got lazy and just left it sitting out on our terrace without securing it down. Well, there have been several windy days in the area and apparently it seems like the wind took it the day we left to go out of town coincidentally. The body does seem to be made of foam and it's not very heavy so it can easily get pushed around by the wind. I guess this is one drawback of this item. I highly suggest that you secure it down to something, even if it's not windy.Minus one star for how lightweight and easily blown around this thing is. Otherwise, it seemed to do convince the real crows to stay around. It was good while it lasted lol!

This really works!!! We got into a war with several crows that showed up one day on our lawn. The next day, they were perched at the top of a tree in our yard, enjoying the beautiful view of the valley--and 'trashing up' our view (we had to look at the crows). I mistakenly tried to shoo them away, first by making noise and waving my arms, then by banging two pots together, then with a sling shot, etc. Not only did the crows resist, they counterattacked. I've since read up on crows--very intelligent, communicative, vindictive, and highly social. If you've got a small group today and they like your territory, you'll soon have MORE tomorrow. We tried everything: tying pie plates to the arbor so that the shiny metal would clang in the breeze (the crows soon adapted)--and we were trying to figure out whether we should "take them out" with our .410, when we came across this dead crow decoy. We read the reviews and decided to give it a try. Holy cow!!! It worked. Before the decoy arrived in the mail, the crows were pooping on our car (not on my truck)--they associated me with the car. We would find 10 or more big splats on the windshield and top of the car (not on the rear window?!?!). They figured out where the front entrance to the house was and began to poop on the 20'x20 entrance patio--sometimes up to 40 poops per day!!!!!! We would wash it off, and it would be the same the next day. We were reluctant to believe that crows were that intelligent / vindictive, but our jaw dropped when we saw this. When the dead crow decoy arrived, I must admit it looked REAL. The instructions were simplistic: Hang the decoy right-side up to scare away certain birds; hang the decoy upside down to get rid of crows. We decided to put the decoy right where they would surely see it: on the roof of the car. Just like in the old cartoons where Smedley Whiplash would tire the heroine to the railroad tracks, we put the decoy belly-up on the roof of the car with a string around its neck. That morning, before the decoy was in place, we had to clean the car again (you have to clean crow poop because it is highly acidic and ruins the paint). At noontime, we placed the decoy and waited. There was a lot of racket that afternoon, with lots of cawing and 'scolding' (we even studied crow caws so that we could mimic the crows and scold 'back' at them)--but no poop. Apparently, crows fear death, and dead colleagues are a bad since (= really dangerous humans)...and they hold funerals!!! (look it up on the internet--lots of research on this). The following morning, there were two poop splats on the entrance patio (down from 30-40/day) and NO poop on the car...and NO CROWS...and they have not been back since!!! I rarely write product reviews--at best I will give a product a certain number of stars--but this crow decoy is worth it!!! It was remarkably effective. (caveat: you have to be 'clever'--where are the crows going to see it? How can you keep them from figuring out it is decoy? etc. If you deploy it incorrectly or do not keep moving the crow or if they cannot see it, it might not work). Best money I've spent in a long time. If you've got a crow problem, this is solution.

The media could not be loaded. It worked! Snuck out at night and put the fake crow on the walkway. I had a stray cat - touch the fake crow... then walk away. 2 days later the songbirds returned to the birdbath. I picked up crow and packed it up... it's sitting in shed in case the crows return.

Very happy with this product. Had an issue with grackles around my pool /spa area and they were leaving so much poop everywhere. I tried a lot of products before this one. The only thing that has worked to keep them awaySide note: as soon as I put it out on my jacuzzi edge a crow funeral did happen but didn’t last that long