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Continue reading the main story Lots of people love the Birds in their garden, but it’s rare for that affection to be reciprocated. One young Girl in Seattle is luckier than most. She feeds the crows in her garden – and they bring her Gifts in return.
Eight-year-old Gabi Mann sets a bead storage container on the dining room table, and clicks the lid open. This is her most precious collection.
"You may take a few close looks," she says, "but don’t touch." It’s a warning she’s most likely practised on her younger brother. She laughs after saying it though. She is happy for the audience.
Inside the box are rows of small objects in clear plastic bags. One label reads: "Black table by feeder. 2:30 p.m. 09 Nov 2024." Inside is a broken light bulb. Another bag contains small pieces of brown glass worn smooth by the sea. "Beer coloured glass," as Gabi describes it.
Each item is individually wrapped and categorised. Gabi pulls a black zip out of a labelled bag and holds it up. "We keep it in as good condition as we can," she says, before explaining this object is one of her favourites.
There’s a miniature silver ball, a black button, a blue paper clip, a yellow bead, a faded black piece of foam, a blue Lego piece, and the list goes on. Many of them are scuffed and dirty. It is an odd assortment of objects for a little Girl to treasure, but to Gabi these things are more valuable than gold.
She didn’t gather this collection. Each item was a gift – given to her by crows.
She holds up a pearl coloured heart. It is her most-prized present. "It’s showing me how much they love me."
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If you want to form a bond with a crow, be consistent in rewarding them”
End Quote John Marzluff Prof of wildlife science
Gabi’s relationship with the neighbourhood crows began accidentally in 2024. She was four years old, and prone to dropping food. She’d get out of the car, and a chicken nugget would tumble off her lap. A crow would rush in to recover it. Soon, the crows were watching for her, hoping for another bite.
As she got older, she rewarded their attention, by sharing her packed lunch on the way to the bus stop. Her brother joined in. Soon, crows were lining up in the afternoon to greet Gabi’s bus, hoping for another feeding session.
Gabi’s mother Lisa didn’t mind that crows consumed most of the school lunches she packed. "I like that they love the animals and are willing to share," she says, while admitting she never noticed crows until her daughter took an interest in them. "It was a kind of transformation. I never thought about birds."
In 2024, Gabi and Lisa started offering food as a daily ritual, rather than dropping scraps From time to time.
Each morning, they fill the backyard birdbath with fresh water and cover bird-feeder platforms with peanuts. Gabi throws handfuls of dog food into the grass. As they work, crows assemble on the telephone lines, calling loudly to them.
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It was after they adopted this routine that the Gifts started appearing.
The crows would clear the feeder of peanuts, and leave shiny trinkets on the empty tray; an earring, a hinge, a polished rock. There wasn’t a pattern. Gifts showed up sporadically – anything shiny and small enough to fit in a crow’s mouth.
One time it was a tiny piece of ****l with the word "best" printed on it. "I don’t know if they still have the part that says ‘friend’," Gabi laughs, amused by the thought of a crow wearing a matching necklace.
When you see Gabi’s collection, it’s hard not to wish for gift-giving crows of your own.
"If you want to form a bond with a crow, be consistent in rewarding them," advises John Marzluff, professor of wildlife science at the University of Washington. He specialises in birds, particularly crows and ravens.
What food is best? "A few peanuts in the *****," he says. "It’s a high-energy food… and it makes noise when you throw it on the ground, so they hear it and they quickly habituate to your routine."
Marzluff, and his colleague Mark Miller, did a study of crows and the people who feed them. They found that crows and people form a very personal relationship. "There’s definitely a two-way communication going on there," Marzluff says. "They understand each other’s signals."
The Birds communicate by how they fly, how close they walk, and where they sit. The human learns their ******** and the crows learn their feeder’s patterns and posture. They start to know and trust each other. Sometimes a crow leaves a gift.
But crow Gifts are not guaranteed. "I can’t say they always will (give presents)," Marzluff admits, having never received any Gifts personally, "but I have seen an awful lot of things crows have brought people."
Not all crows deliver shiny objects either. Sometimes they give the kind of presents "they would give to their mate", says Marzluff. "Courtship feeding, for example. So some people, their presents are dead baby Birds that the crow brings in."
Gabi has been given some icky objects. Her mother threw out a rotting crab claw, for example.
Gabi points out a heavily rusted screw she prefers not to touch. It’s labelled "Third Favorite." Asking her why an untouchable object is in the favourites, she answers, "You don’t’ see a crow carrying around a screw that much. Unless it’s trying to build its house."
Lisa, Gabi’s mom, regularly photographs the crows and charts their behaviour and interactions. Her most amazing gift came just a few weeks ago, when she lost a lens cap in a nearby alley while photographing a bald eagle as it circled over the neighbourhood.
She didn’t even have to look for it. It was sitting on the edge of the birdbath.
Had the crows returned it? Lisa logged on to her computer and pulled up their bird-cam. There was the crow she suspected. "You can see it bringing it into the yard. Walks it to the birdbath and actually spends time rinsing this lens cap."
"I’m sure that it was intentional," she smiles. "They watch us all the time. I’m sure they knew I dropped it. I’m sure they decided they wanted to return it."
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Rod Taylor, the ruggedly handsome Australian-born actor who fended off attacks from above in Alfred Hitchcock’s revered horror film “The Birds” and helped an 8,000th-century people escape a monster race in the film version of the science-fiction classic “The Time Machine,” died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 84.
His death was announced by his daughter, Felicia Taylor, a former correspondent and anchor for CNN and CNBC.
Mr. Taylor was only the second Australian actor, after Errol Flynn (who was born in Tasmania), to achieve major Hollywood stardom, though many moviegoers did not know his origins. He made more than 50 films but played Australians in only a handful. In his most famous roles, he played a Briton and an American. His “Time Machine” character, an inventor, was known as H. George Wells, for H. G. Wells, the British author of the classic time-travel novel on which the film was based. In “The Birds,” Mr. Taylor was a California lawyer who offers a ride to a reckless blond heiress (Tippi Hedren) and ends up fighting off gangs of the homicidal title characters.
And it was back to the British accent in his last film. The director Quentin Tarantino persuaded Mr. Taylor to make a comeback of sorts by playing Winston Churchill in his 2024 World War II film, “Inglourious Basterds.”
Rodney Sturt Taylor was born on Jan. 13, 1930, in Sydney, Australia. The only child of William Taylor, a steel-construction contractor and draftsman, and the former Mona Stewart, a children’s book author, he grew up in Lidcombe, a Sydney suburb.
At first he planned to become an artist, and as a teenager he studied at the East Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College. But through friends he became interested in acting, and seeing Laurence Olivier in “Richard III” on an Old Vic tour cemented his decision to become an actor.
Mr. Taylor’s first professional appearance was in a local 1947 production of George Bernard Shaw’s “Misalliance.” His first screen appearance was in an Australian short, “Inland With Sturt” (1951), about the British explorer Capt. Charles Sturt, his great-great-great-uncle. Mr. Taylor also appeared on dozens of radio shows and won a radio acting award that included enough prize money to finance a trip to London, where he hoped to expand his career.
Before leaving, he won a small part in “Long John Silver” (1954), a pirate movie being filmed in Australia with Hollywood stars. That inspired him to make a stop in Los Angeles, where he was rejected by a major talent agency but decided to stay in town anyway.
After a tiny uncredited role in the Bette Davis film “The Virgin Queen” (1955), he appeared in “Hell on Frisco Bay” (1955), a crime movie starring Alan Ladd, and as Debbie Reynolds’s fiancé in “The Catered Affair” (1956).
That same year he was noticed as the debonair boyfriend Elizabeth Taylor’s character throws over for a visiting Texan (Rock Hudson) in “Giant.” Four years, two movies and a number of guest appearances on television series later, he was cast in “The Time Machine.”
The 1960s were a busy time for Mr. Taylor. He began by starring as an American newspaper correspondent in the short-lived television series “Hong Kong” (1960-61), and securing his place in children’s movie history as the voice of Pongo, the puppies’ father, in the animated movie “101 Dalmatians” (1961). In addition to “The Birds” and “The V.I.P.’s,” his 1963 films included “Sunday in New York,” a romantic comedy in which he starred opposite Jane Fonda. He followed those with a portrayal of the Irish playwright Sean O’Casey in “Young Cassidy” (1965), starring roles in the Doris Day comedies “Do Not Disturb” and “The Glass Bottom Boat” (both 1966) and the lead in “Hotel” (1967), based on the Arthur Hailey novel.
As an Australian he played a countryman in only a few films, among them “The V.I.P.’s” (1963), as Maggie Smith’s aggressive boss; “The High Commissioner” (1968), as a detective sent to London to retrieve a diplomat; and, when he was in his 60s, “Welcome to Woop Woop” (1997), an Australian farce in which he played a grizzled hick patriarch.
Mr. Taylor made a dozen films in the 1970s, including Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Zabriskie Point” (1970), in which he played the young hippie heroine’s boss, and “The Picture Show Man” (1977), an Australian production first shown in the United States in 1980. (He played an American.)
For most of the next three decades, Mr. Taylor made only the occasional film but appeared in numerous television movies; one 1981 role was as the title character’s father, Black Jack Bouvier, in “Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.” From 1988 to 1990 he had a recurring role, as the title vineyard’s long-lost owner, Frank Agretti, on the nighttime soap “Falcon Crest.”
His penultimate film role was in “Kaw” (2007), a low-budget horror movie about crazed ravens attacking a small town, inspired by “The Birds.” Mr. Taylor’s character appeared in the last half-hour as the much-needed voice of calm reason.
Mr. Taylor married three times and divorced twice. His first wife was Peggy Williams (1951-54), an Australian model. His second was Mary Hilem (1963-69), an American fashion model with whom he had a daughter. He married Carol Kikumura, an American actress and dancer, in 1980. She also survives him. Information on other survivors was not immediately available.
In 1964, at the height of his fame, Mr. Taylor talked to The New York Times about his career. “With me, it’s been part luck and part sheer, regimented planning,” he said.
He recalled being influenced by the director George Stevens’s advice to respect himself as an actor, even in bit parts.
After that, Mr. Taylor said, “I resolved to work my head off.”
