Head downtown around dusk and the crows are hard to miss — roosting in trees, squawking to each other and plastering the sidewalk with their droppings, but not if Draco has anything to do with it.

This year, the crows have been hanging out downtown between the Best Western and the Jefferson County Historical Society, where splotches of crow poop covers its sidewalk. The City Hall parking ...

Downtown Portland’s crow population has tripled in less than a decade.