I am a big fan of crows too. I like them even though once while dining on an outdoor patio restaurant I had one crow stare me down maliciously for god-knows-what provocation and whom later shit on my sandwich when I wasn't paying attention. In the spruce spreading over the patio the crow then looked at me triumphantly while it bobbed up and down a little.
Crows, like canids, are very intelligent and have a real sense of self-awareness and the existence of others.
—”Crows, like canids, are very intelligent “
A friend that was into crow hunting was always amazed at how smart they were.
He claimed they knew if he was just looking around empty handed or was carrying a shotgun!
My grandfather rescued a young crow with a broken wing and kept it a pet. It even learned to speak a few words.