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Canuck the Crow is a free bird again.

He was released from the Night Owl Bird Hospital in Kitsilano on Tuesday morning, brought home by his buddy Shawn Bergman and set free in his east Vancouver neighbourhood.

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“It looks like he’s going to be all right,” Bergman said. “It’s good he’s back in the neighbourhood, back in the swing of things. It’s nice to see him doing a lot of the things he did before.”

Understandably, after being attacked by a soccer dad with a flagpole on March 25 and knocked cold, Canuck seems a little less trusting of strangers, Bergman added.

He captured the homecoming on video and posted it on the wildly popular Facebook page Canuck and I (@thecrowandI).

When Bergman opened the travel box and Canuck emerged, to “reclaim his kingdom” as Bergman put it, the bird took a few steps, assayed his familiar surroundings in Bergman’s backyard and looked for food.

Canuck spends nights at a rookery, but is chummy with Bergman and other humans, and thinks nothing of hopping up to strangers to try to steal their lunch.