Teacher catches crow stealing boiled eggs on camera
An art teacher in northeastern Thailand set up a camera to catch an egg thief and discovered the culprit was a clever crow repeatedly stealing boiled eggs from outside his school room.
NAKHON RATCHASIMA — 25 April 2026 — A schoolteacher in northeastern Thailand set up a camera to catch a suspected thief who had taken a tray of boiled eggs, only to discover the culprit was a crow.
CCTV footage outside the room of Anuwit Tiamkrathok, an art and music teacher at Ban Mabkrad School in Khon Buri district, captured the bird repeatedly stealing eggs left overnight.
Anuwit said he regularly boiled large batches of eggs and stored them for convenience. On 23 April, he left a tray in a pot outside his room overnight, only to find them all gone the next morning.
After questioning staff and students without success, he initially suspected a dog but doubted it could remove the eggs without knocking over the pot.
He then repositioned his camera and left two boiled eggs as bait. Footage showed a crow swooping in at 5:50 to take one egg, before returning at 6:19 to grab the second.
"I never expected the thief would be a crow from nearby," he said.
