For the November bird count, Sunday, November 16, 2025, the weather was not cooperating. Cool, wet with a blowing wind and mixture of rain and sleet. Visibility was poor but in Haisla, at the Kitamaat Village waterfront, a small murder of crows stopped nearby.

Veteran birders in British Columbia would call the smaller bird a “northwestern crow” a separate species. The experts, however, have changed their mnd, and now say the smaller birds are “conspecific” with the western variant of the American crow. Corvus brachyrhynchos hesperis.