Canuck the Crow

[Catherine]

Canuck is a famous crow in Vancouver, Canada.
He gained notoriety when he stole a knife from a crime scene.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-co...-1.3604632


He has a Facebook page. The link is in the article I am about to post.
This time he is in the news because he got hurt at a soccer game(football to the rest of you).
His friends have been looking for him. He is now at the vets and should make a full recovery.

http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=1&at=dt0

They have even raised funds to pay his vets bills. It seems friendly crows are popular and perhaps more common than we think.

[Tobi]

Oh wow! Crows can be famous! I think they like to interact with people and what people do. Crows are probably the "new dogs"  

I hope Canuk will make a full recovery.

[Catherine]

I think Canuck must be recovering. I couldn't find any new articles. If something had happened we would hear about it.

Crows really seem to enjoy human interactions. Canuck is very well known.  I bet if we searched we would find there are crows in other places that are locally famous and some that are friends with a human, but no one else knows about it.

I wonder if some humans are famous in crow circles for their relationship with crows.

[Tobi]

I met a very nice dog-walking lady today, and she said she had never heard of a wild Crow making friends with a human. But I know (even if not locally to me) that such things do happen. I read all the comments on an article about treats for wild Crows. There were a number of other people commenting who'd had such things happen with Crows.

[Catherine]

I think crow-human interactions are quite common. Even close bonds are common enough. Maybe your neighbour is not the kind of person who would be friends with a bird so she doesn't understand how others do it.

Canuck has certainly bonded with humans.

[Catherine]

It sounds like Canuck is continuing to recover. He has been visited by his person and is  happy tp see him.

http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=2&at=dt0

I am happy that Canuck is doing so well, but I am troubled by the fact that Canuck was deliberately struck by a person. They are trying to find that person now so that charges can be laid. Why would anyone hit a tame bird like that?