I thought birds were supposed to sleep at night like the rest of us,

but turns out Kolkata crows and their earsplitting shrieks basically persist through the early evening and well into the following dawn. Crows are to Kolkata what rats are to New York City. They’re slightly demonic. Case in point: There’s a dog running around here and apparently she’s still traumatized from an episode that happened when she was a puppy wherein a crow swooped down and pecked at her.