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Next time you see a bird in San Francisco, there’s a decent chance it’ll
be a crow. But that wasn’t always the case. As recently as the 1990s,
those chances would have been slim to none.

Every year around Christmas, the Golden Gate Bird Alliance organizes
volunteers to count birds in San Francisco. Out of the nearly 60,000 birds
they saw during the 2023 count, about 2,600 of them, or 4.5%, were
American crows, up from about a fifth of a percent in 1993. Another 2% in
2023 were common ravens, more than a ten times higher share than three
decades before. Oakland has also seen a large rise of crows.

The San Francisco crows count more than doubled their 2022 numbers, when volunteers recorded 1,100 birds, though some experts are skeptical that
the actual number of crows in the city grew by such a large margin.

Bird counts can vary greatly from year to year, due to fluctuating numbers
of volunteers, differences in weather and other factors, according to the National Audubon Society, which collects data from the Golden Gate Bird Alliance and other chapters. That’s especially true for crows and ravens,
which often roost together in groups of hundreds or thousands of birds.

But the rise of American crows and common ravens in the San Francisco area
— which includes the city and the wetlands north of the San Francisco International Airport — is still striking, said Whitney Grover, deputy
director of the Golden Gate Bird Alliance.

“They’ve just been going up and up,” Grover said.

"Homeless deaths doubled in SF during first year of pandemic, mostly from
drug overdoses"

The crows are eating the dead gay homeless drug addicts.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/crows-san-francisco-
19382293.php

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