This is Bird Note.

Kira Jane Buxton is the author of Hollow Kingdom and Feral Creatures,

two novels about a foul-mouthed pet crow named ST,

navigating the extinction of humanity, learning to bridge between the worlds of domestic and wild animals.

The books are love letters to the City of Seattle and the American Crow.

But Kira's love for crows didn't start. and the American Crow.

But Kira's love for crows didn't start until a few years

before writing the books.

I was walking my dog and there was an injured crow.

Its wing was backward. And in the trees all around were about 60 crows who were just

screaming for this family member.

And I was very nervous to approach because I had no experience with crows and you know the general consensus about crows is quite negative.

They're seen as harbingers of death.

Also I'm blonde so I thought this might be a kind of tippy hedron moment,

but I got a box and approached this poor little injure crow

and it looked at me and I looked at this crow and I just had this

feeling that the crow understood I was there to help and not to harm and so I

ushered this little crow into the box and all the crows went silent.

Sixty crows, just silent watching.

Kira took the young crow to a local wildlife rehab center where sadly it didn't survive.

But after that I had a completely different relationship with the local crows.

I would go on these walks and they would follow me.

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