Love them or hate them, it’s not just your imagination: Portland’s crow population has exploded. Gary Granger-who readers may remember from his 2019 corvid conversation with us, and his report of an assault on a homeless man that a local 911 dispatcher downplayed-and his research partner, Rebecca Provorse, count crows between November and February through downtown Portland. They define that as anywhere west of the Willamette River and east of Interstate 405′s carved borders (the Pearl District and Old Town fall within this boundary, for example, but Goose Hollow does not). The Oregon Birding Association published Granger and Provorse’s findings for the Autumn 2023 issue of its biannual journal Oregon Birds.