Their diet includes road-killed animals, grasshoppers and locusts, spiders, crustaceans, small frogs, lizards and snakes, seeds and grubs. They also eat the eggs and even nestlings of other birds. They are usually attacking the crow after it raided their nest. Crows are believed to mate for life. Nesting season begins around March in Missouri.
Crows prefer to nest alone.
Although when habitat doesn't provide sufficient sites, several pair will build their nests in the same location. A typical nest contains four or five drab olive or blue-green eggs that may be speckled or streaked. It's thought that parents share the incubation duty. Eggs hatch in about 18 days, and the young fledge in just over a month. In the nest the young depend on their parents and older siblings for food.