Shot a crow today with a large tumor growing on the right side of it's head. I suspect they are easier to shoot if they are half blind. On a serious note I have picked up a lot of dead crows and have never seen this before.
This looks similar to a disease of House Finches called avian conjunctivitis. I've seen several house finches with it, but never any crows. Here is some information about it:
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/hofi/abtdisease.html
It might be worth reporting it to Cornell. They are great with strange bird things.
Demi
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Next time if at all possible that type of bird must be disposed of in a fashion to keep other birds or crows from getting infected..I hope you hared this [ugh!] with Fish and Game as I think they need to know...I am sorry to see that in New Hampshire land but all the same you two [spoiler]did spectacular in the Granite State! {Applauds]
