Jake with Andy
Jake was a black crow owned by Brooks Hatlen.
Character Biography
Brooks, the Shawshank prison librarian, found Jake as an infant that fell out of his nest outside the plate shop and injured its wing. He took the crow in and nursed it back to health, naming him "Jake" and keeping him as a pet, feeding him maggots he finds in the prison food. When Brooks was granted parole and got out of jail, he knew that he had to free Jake, probably his closest friend, and did so with great hesitation and pain. Afterwards Brooks writes about how much he misses him and sometimes hoping he'll appear with the birds he sees out there.
WARNING SPOILERS
Jake later dies in the book with Red and Dufresne giving him a funeral.