Crow (Corvus sp.)
Smart enough to adapt quickly to urban life, crows nest in such
unlikely places as alongside the Pentagon, and feed in the White
House grounds in Washington.
Typically, they feed in the early hours before many people are out,
retreating to parks or fields when disturbed. Their nest-robbing, crop
destroying habits are often exaggerated, and less attention paid to
their diet of grubs, beetles, mice, and other pests.
Grackles, martins, flycatchers and other smaller birds, recognizing
them as marauders, will chase crows in the spring and summer.
Watching the little feathered dive-bombers attack the lumbering crow
is quite a show, the larger bird always retreating as best he can,
sometimes losing a few feathers, but seldom his dignity.