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I work at the Education Dept of a Wildlife Sanctuary. We rehabilitated a Crow and then set him free when he was OK again and good to go. He apparently liked to be with us and didn’t want to leave. He kept following me, coming when I called him, meet me in my car as I drove in daily and landing on my head as I did an education tour.  I named him Little CrowCrow and wrote 2 books about him for children and put videos on YoutTube titled: The Learning Adventures of Little CrowCrow. One day, I was playing with him, and he was only half playing back with me, he kept looking over to a flock of Ibis to the right of where we were. I stated to look at what he was looking at. He was watching one particular Ibis which had separated from the flock and was foraging for insects or worms. When he say it had found some grub, he looked at me  and just as fast flew like a bullet towards the unsuspecting Ibis who was about 30 feet away. I stood frozen, watching him, praying he was not going to hurt it. What he did was swoop the food the Ibis had found right out of his beak, before the Ibis even realized it, and fly up to a tree branch to eat it. I realized then that he had figured out that if he hung around the Ibis, monitored the ones foraging, and do a fast surprise fly and grab, it was an easy way for him to obtain food!