This winter, the Ottawa Citizen’s Tom Spears looks at what makes our coldest season tick. It’s not your imagination telling you that a murder of crows in central Ottawa had thousands of the birds all together. And if you think 10,000 is a lot of crows in one place, you haven’t been to Chatham. The southwestern Ontario city was plagued by a winter crow population that probably ran into the low millions in the 1990s, though it has dropped a long way from there. Di Labio knows a lot of people dislike crows and he thinks it’s because of their colour.

Source: National Post January 19, 2017 19:27 UTC