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In 1975, Middletown, Rhode Island was beset by a wave of mail vandalism. Mailboxes were opened and their contents scattered on the ground, with some mail mangled and some missing. This seems the sort of crime that would have faded from memory long ago, except that the perpetrator turned out to be a crow. The tale was told to me by Deb Smith, a gifted educator who worked at BEEC for many years. Some of her formative nature experiences took place at the Norman Bird Sanctuary where Poe, the postal criminal, had been raised. Sanctuary staff had released Poe far away and were surprised that he had returned to his childhood haunts. They were not surprised to find he was causing mischief because, well, he was a crow.