The return of Canuck the crow: notorious bird's bloody attacks force Canada Post to suspend deliveries

Canada's postal service has suspended mail delivery to a Vancouver neighborhood after repeated attacks on its carriers by a crow.

Canuck the crow - last year thought to have disrupted police work by disturbing a crime scene - often swoops in and peck at carriers delivering to three homes on the city's east side, according to local reports.

On one occasion, one worker was left bleeding.

Local resident Shawn Bergman said the bird had adopted the neighbourhood as his home. He told The Canadian Press: "He just built a nest this year and that’s basically what got him all up in arms."

Some residences have gone months without mail deliveries as a result.

Canada Post spokesman Phil Legault said in a statement to AFP that the safety of its employees is "of most importance."

He cited several incidents "in this neighborhood when our letter carriers were attacked by a crow."

Residents, he said, have been advised where to go to pick up their mail, adding that postal service would resume "as soon as possible when it's safe."

A bird believed to be the very same crow gained notoriety in 2016 for stealing a knife from a crime scene.

It has also been spotted riding the city's metro and earlier this month got into a flap with a McDonald's diner while trying to steal her breakfast.