Illinois State University has tried just about everything to vanquish its Hitchcock-esque crow problem — plastic owls, rubber snakes, and so on. But thousands of the pesky birds are still roosting on the quad this winter and causing a nuisance with their noise and droppings, which have to be power washed off the walkways.
West Nile virus took a heavy toll in 2001, but since then the blackbirds have bounced back