Yeah, I'd be working on that third puzzle, if you want to save your village. I thought the crows were random the first game I played, then I went to bed, and woke up to a dead village. All is well now though... I started my second game much more efficiently, and now I'm stable and working on building a thriving settlement.

this is it - I've got enough!!!!!!!!!!

finally I'm down to 0 minutes until new crops and then there's this ****************** message telling me that the birds ate my crops before my villagers could harvest them!!!!!!!!!!
I've got 14 left in the bin, I'm having a headache of the last two hours of searching for shrooms and that's the output ???!!!'*'*'!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

oh well - looked the solution up in the guide, I got so frustrated - I really intended on finishing everything of myself.well i had, hadn't it been for the right villager set on the wrong preferences.
now: no crows, almost no food, 207 min to go for crops, 32k to go for fish. but somehow they'll survive

I have four vilages running at the same time right now, and I have found that the one helpful thing is to not buy level two of farming tech unless you absolutely have to. On my newest vilage, I was able to get the population up to about 20 with no deaths and I was just farming. I was able to survive untill i could get level two and three of farming tech at the same time. It really helped to keep the farmers focused on the farmland. One question, how do you get the dam built before the alge comes? I have never succesfully been able to get enough pionts to even start building the dam before the ocean is overfished.

had the dam long before there was the slightest hint of algea - dunno why

I started a new village yesterday.
Start with 2 fishing up to about 200 - 300 points then one to research.
3rd one on research from the start.
Next child old enough to farming, farmer to research.
Enough points Farming first then engeneering.
Move 2 researchers on to the main building project (not the huts)
Once thats done food is not a problem and I get one builder back to research and start the babie boom (1 at a time)about 4 yrs between, keeps kids handy for collecting but not overpopulating.
And try and get the points for the Science upgrade which makes the points come faster. So many points needed. Will I ever get there.(YES)eventually.
Up to now no alge.
Hope this helps.

CROOOOOOPS!!!!!!!!! Finally I made it!!!!!!!!
They won't starve, we're close to finishing off the algea and I'm happy again. what a day!!!! :-)))))