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Seattle's crows started paying a child in tiny treasures. 🐦
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Animal OdditiesSep 09, 2026

Seattle's crows started paying a child in tiny treasures. 🐦

Seattle's crows started paying a child in tiny treasures. 🐦 . . . By 2015, eight-year-old Gabi Mann was feeding neighborhood crows each day in her Seattle garden. The birds began leaving beads, buttons, bits of glass and metal in the same tray. Gabi catalogued the objects in labeled bagsβ€”the crows weren't trained performers, yet their gifts kept arriving.

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BBC News, 2015, 'The girl who gets gifts from birds'

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