Why are crows ambushing innocent people in this New Orleans neighborhood? ‘I was under attack’

Mary Munger was half awake on a walk with her dog one Sunday morning in March when she stopped to look at her phone and felt something slam into the back of her head. She whipped around to find a surprising culprit: a crow.

“And I thought, ‘Well that was a clumsy crow,’” Munger said.

The bird was flying off by the time she caught a glimpse of it. So, coffee in hand, she continued on her way, assuming the unusual run-in near the corner of Napoleon Avenue and Magazine Street was nothing more than a fluke…

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