Picture this: you're walking down a sidewalk in Vancouver, minding your own business, sipping your coffee, and then something smacks you in the back of the head. No warning, no noise; just a straight hit from above. Welcome to crow attack season, a very real, very weird annual event in Canada's Vancouver.
Every spring, roughly April to July, crows all over Metro Vancouver transform into little fighter jets. They swoop. They scratch. Sometimes they draw blood. It’s so predictable on the calendar that a local college instructor has even built an actual live map so people can check which streets to avoid before they leave the house. This CBC News report says the tool, called CrowTrax, was developed by Jim O’Leary, a geographic information systems instructor at Langara College, and fellow instructor Rick Davidson.
