Crow Best Friend

Rescued Crow Is Boy’s Best Friend, Waiting for Him to Get Home from School Every Day: ‘We’re his flock’

Get ready to drop your jaw when you see the image that a Danish family has shared of how a wild Eurasian crow has become part of their flock.

The crow will come and visit all of them, including the dog and the cats, but it’s for the little boy Otto whom Russell reserves the vast majority of his love—and their friendship is like nothing you’ve ever seen before.

Russell is no caged corvid. He disappears from the family’s property in Denmark often.

However, whether it’s pecking at the door, flying through the window onto the couch, or waiting for Otto on top of the house when he gets home from Kindergarten, the bird is never far away.

After finding the orphaned juvenile bird, Otto’s mom and dad were not able to find anyone in the area to rehabilitate him, so while nursing him back to health, and then into its fledging stage, the crow grew to trust the family.

He’s been with them a while now, and has been nearby to welcome the couple’s second child, Hedwig, into the world.

In fact, too often he tries to steal the baby’s pacifier.