Hi All, today was a very sad day for me and my family. We found our juvenile crow that's been raised in our backyard by its parents over the last 5 months deceased in our side garden. Looked like it was just asleep, head to one side sitting like a chicken. No sign of any injuries, feathers. It was healthy and only seen the afternoon before happily pottering around with its parents. I'm very upset and at a loss as to what had happened. Being in Australia, i thought perhaps a snake bite but my local vet who I took it to said it could have ingested poison from eating a baited rat! They couldn't give it a proper check as rigor had started but did say it looked otherwise healthy i.e weight, feather condition etc so what else could it be? This has really affected me because I've never experienced any of our crows' young over the last 10 years passing away at such a late age. In a few more months he would have moved on for good. Has anyone else experienced anything similar with their backyard bird visitors. This has really shaken me up and the parents are just sitting in the tree above all day mournfully calling. 😔