spent about 850 euros on my previous server as a donator, its ok to donate to support a good server, better than running your own, cheaper and your contributing to a service your making use of.
It’s got to be the crow, I don’t know of any other bird so widely used in good lore and story, and their crazy intelligent and recognise people and their behaviour, as well as communicate this. Befriend a crow- honestly it's worth it.