When Leah Wilson walks down her street in Canada, the neighbors might just draw their blinds. Her footsteps bring a beating of black wings: a whole murder of crows following her every step. But Wilson is not someone out of a horror movie. She’s a hero to their clan, and this is what loyalty looks like in the animal kingdom.
According to a CTV News report, Wilson, a Métis member, initially encountered a young crow that had somehow managed to get into a roof gutter near her house. She didn't walk past. She saw a fire truck parked close by, walked over to the firefighters and said, with a chuckle: “Hey! You look like you want to save a crow today.” They agreed, carried the ladder over, freed the bird, and left the rest to Wilson.
She took it to a wildlife veterinarian herself. And before she left, something happened she did not expect. The crow grabbed her finger and held on. "He latched on to my finger and held on; that was life-changing," she told CTV without knowing yet just how life-changing things were about to get.
A gift she never saw coming
Soon after, Wilson went out for a walk with her dog. A crow swooped down and dropped something at her feet: a small, beautiful bundle of feathers. “I was going for a walk with my dog, a crow flew down and dropped this beautiful, feathered bundle at my feet,” she recalled. It was the first of many thank-you gifts she would receive from the local murder of crows. And yes, that really is the name of a group of crows.
