OK, I SUSPECT THERE’S A LOT OF HYPERBOLE in this article about whether crows are disappearing from DC due to West Nile, but the article does give a great picture of why people love the big bad black birds so much. (Link via Roy Sheetz.)

UPDATE: TAPPED agrees that the “ring the alarm… another crow is dying” angle is bogus. But again, the article is worth reading for its loving portrait of corvine life.