Article 3V7ZK Counting crows: Vancouver college maps thousands of attacks

Counting crows: Vancouver college maps thousands of attacks

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Tool launched in response to dive-bombing birds documents 2,500 attacks since 2016

It was a crow fiercely protecting its nest - and repeated complaints of it dive-bombing and swooping - that prompted the idea.

"Just about every day someone would come in and say: 'I got smacked in the back of the head,' or 'Mary got smacked in the back of the head,'" said Jim O'Leary, a teacher at Langara College in Vancouver, Canada.

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