A boy rescues an injured crow and helps rehabilitate it in hopes of its safe return to the wild. This book is a study of the habits and largely unknown abilities of the smartest bird on the planet, the crow. It is also a heartfelt story of a young naturalist trying to save a bird he admires and deeply hoping the bird will return to visit him. The book is based on a fourth grade author's year-long research project studying the American Crow in which he interviewed crow trainers, participated in crow training, visited a cognitive biology research station near Vienna, Austria focusing on crow behavior, and his own readings on the extraordinary intelligence of crows.
Profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center Raptor Program.