A Crow Menace? It’s All Perception…

Crows at Roost in Lancaster PA
"Best in Crow" Lancaster art show winner by Deborah Diana
Winner of “Best in Crow” at Lancaster’s “All-Crow” art show—one of the many events in the town’s winter crow celebration. Illustration: Deborah Diana

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was invaded by crows in the winter. Tens of thousands of them. It was awful, right?

Not so fast! The city used to try to poison crows to exterminate them. Now they hold a yearly crow festival to celebrate the avian “invaders”! You can read the whole story on the Audubon Web site.

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