For the past five months, residents of Pravia, a town in Spain’s Asturias region, have been under constant siege by flocks of crows that mindlessly attack their homes and vehicles, reports say. odditycentral.com.
In the town of Pravia, no fewer than six crows stand proudly on the historic coat of arms, so it’s safe to say that the people here have been living in harmony with the birds for centuries.
However, that is no longer the case as large flocks of blackbirds are now attacking the homes and vehicles of human residents for some unknown reason.
The people of Pravia began reporting groups of birds repeatedly flying thoughtlessly into their windows until the impact left them bleeding in May this year, and things have only gotten worse since then.
No one knows exactly why the crows target people’s homes and vehicles, but they are relentless in their attacks, pecking at and flying into windows until they start to bleed.
“It looks like something out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie,” a Pravia woman told La Voz de Asturias. “Today seventeen of them sat together at the same window, and nothing could deter them.”
“A neighbor had to have his car completely painted because of the amount of scratches it had and the bits of paint that were missing,” says another man.
When the attacks around Pravia first occurred, many local people believed that this had something to do with the fact that the crows were very protective of their young and kept people at a distance by their behavior.
But that period is long gone, but the birds remained just as aggressive, if not more aggressive. Some say the lack of food and continued destruction of the crows’ natural habitat has driven the birds to this extreme behavior.
In recent months, residents of Pravia have reported flocks of crows attacking homes and vehicles, often throwing themselves against windows to break them.
They mainly hurt themselves, but they are ruthless. Blood-stained windows in the Spanish city are evidence of the crows’ ruthlessness, but no one seems to have a solution to the problem.
The municipal council and the mayor of Pravia have received hundreds of complaints about the behavior of the crows, but despite several attempts, are unable to stop them. They tried to catch them with traps, scare them away with balloons and now they want to use nets to keep them at bay.
“It’s very strange, there must be an explanation because they crash very violently,” said Pravia mayor David Álvarez, admitting that his government is currently unable to keep the birds at bay.
