"With hundreds of people gathered outdoors to watch fireworks that July evening, Ms. Joyce wondered why she had been singled out. I'm not a fraidy-cat, I'm not generally nervous of wildlife, said Ms. Joyce, whose crow encounters grew so frequent this past summer that she changed her commute to work to avoid the birds. But it was so relentless, she said, and quite terrifying."
"CrowTrax, a website started eight years ago by Jim O'Leary, a Vancouver resident, has since received more than 8,000 reports of crow attacks in the leafy city, where crows are relatively abundant. And such encounters stretch well beyond the Pacific Northwest."
"Renowned for their intelligence, crows can mimic human speech, use tools and gather for what seem to be funeral rites when a member of their murder, as groups of crows are known, dies or is killed. They can identify and remember faces, even among large crowds."
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