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Sentence Examples Since the crows have been arriving in greater numbers on this hill, I have been spotting fewer and fewer mourning doves around the house. The male koel, foppishly clad in silky black, flutters enticingly close to a crow's nest, causing anxiety and outrage among the crows. He can see crows nesting on the underside of tree branches, and leaves fluttering down to the sky. The crows nest has become an ideal lookout post for sighting dolphins, whales, porpoises, seabirds and turtles. She smiles at a small murder of crows, and from one of her many pockets, she tosses them a few chunks of stale bread. The potential for all kinds of damage hovers in the air like a murder of crows waiting to strike. A group of teens had their planned weekend away ruined when a murder of crows inexplicably smashes into their car, causing them to crash. Small carnivores such as mongoose and crows pose a threat to the night heron chicks. We saw lots of catbirds, blackbirds, mockingbirds, cardinals, crows, and grackles. Some classic examples are Egyptian vultures, New Caledonian crows and bowerbirds. They say the crows nested twice this year as there will be no food to feed the young next spring due to the hard weather. At times they eat arthropods, seeds, and grain, but they are more carnivorous than crows. Often only one or two young survive locally following predation by crows and competition with Canada geese and grey-lag geese. I wonder whether those interested in the building of rooks in the gardens noticed if they were interfered with by crows. He observed that the tail moves during vocalization in crows, warbling vireos, and lovebirds. What did become clear was that the crows discriminated between their relatives and others when it came to filching their food. She gently spritzed the young crows with a hose, hoping they'd flutter away and spare her crop. Two elderly ladies were squawking like crows at his shoulders, complaining about the lack of organization and the horrible weather forecasting. There were thousands of gulls present along with geese, ducks, egrets, and crows all loafing or actively feeding on the airfield. The constant sound of Calcutta is the cacophony of horns and the descant of millions of crows. Show More Sentences There are legions of zombies, crows and assorted mutations, all sharing the common bond of considering your brains a nummy treat. On the second day of October, her evil family gave to her two ill-omened crows. It was almost dawn, the sky was clearing, the crows had started cawing and the birds were chirping all around. I've seen sparrows, dirty pigeons, doves, screeching seagulls, nasty crows and the occasional hawk. The black grouping of lights look like a murder of crows and the white ones like a dole of doves flying above your head. The corvids of North America consist of one species of jackdaw, four crows, two ravens, one nutcracker, two magpies, and ten species of jays. In my favorite rescue story, a woman summons Animal Control because a pack of crows is dive-bombing an injured owl. Disturbance after eggs are laid provides opportunities for predation by carrion crows, jays, kestrels, magpies, foxes and mink. West Nile virus infects many different bird species, but it appears to be lethal to crows, jays, and hawks. Rain or shine, every morning he walks down the fishing harbour jetty to feed the crows. Birds of prey, crows, ravens, and raccoons try to steal their eggs and chicks. I woke up and there were crows outside my window, making a racket and causing the other birds to yell back at them. The crows working in harmony with nature lived on the snails, worms, beetles and insects. Long-eared Owls usually nest in abandoned stick nests, often the nests of magpies, crows, ravens, or hawks. We might even be able to give the crows, ravens and swallows a little competition. Put bluntly, these birds, which include crows, ravens, magpies, and jays, can be real jerks. The brain-to-body ratio of crows, ravens and magpies equals that of dolphins and nearly matches humans. Well-adapted to urban environments, grackles, crows, ravens, blackbirds, and jays thrive everywhere we do. In addition to twigs, the crows manufacture tools from long and barbed leaves of the pandanus tree. At nesting time the parents become bold and pugnacious attacking crows, magpies, cuckoos and kestrels crossing their territory. Show More Sentences Blue Jays and crows seem to have moved in of late, overpowering the persistent chirps of the chipping sparrows and resident cardinals. Management of piping plovers includes control of predators such as red foxes, raccoons, gulls, and crows. Red-tailed hawks, red-shouldered hawks, and American crows often fly over my yard and out over the canyon. In a gum tree nearby, were three other crows, presumably standing guard, or awaiting their turn at the beauty salon. We lie in dappled shade amidst cawing crows, wave sound, a sprinkler playing on the short grass. A half-dozen crows burst up out of one of the leatherleafs and silently winged their way north. Walking down to the pond we saw some white-cheeked bulbuls as well as a couple of hooded crows. Chorusing male red-ruffed fruit crows sound like breath blown across a bottle, followed by a finger spun along the wet rim of a crystal glass. Wild cats, stray dogs, pigeons, rats, and hooded crows were killed by the thousands to improve hygiene in the city. Not for her, of course, left swinging in a cave to the caw of crows, but so the rest of us can go on. Round the list out with the expected sparrows, cardinals, crows, starlings, doves, and catbirds, and you've got a nice hour of birding. Carrion crows, large gulls, hawks and herons all receive severe punishment. A few lucky crows have nests under the overhanging rocks and nearby was a limekiln with orchids. His hair is graying already, he has grey stubble on his chin, wrinkles, laugh lines, and crows feet. The dump is a big draw to gulls and crows and I'm sure I'll see something good in the gull department. Although he crows endlessly about dating a younger woman, he often seems ashamed by her gaucherie. I turned my head to see a flock of crows and rooks burst out from the highest trees and fly overhead. A great place to observe crows is at their winter roosts, which may range in size from hundreds or thousands to more than a million birds. To confirm his worst fears, a yell comes out of the bathroom window upstairs, startling the few crows perched on the lone tree in their garden. During their lifetime, the crows carry out the inner loop of the adaptation process. Show More Sentences The heat island of Tokyo has been one of the leading attractors of crows migrating to the city. In learning to escape the vigilance of crows, birds also avoid the attention of some other predators, such as jays and magpies. He crows in triumph, and both of us pull as hard as we can and the pipe gives way as half the toilet breaks off and lands on the floor. He said the proliferation of Corvids birds like grey crows, magpies and rooks could be directly linked to the decline in songbirds in the area. I've painted a backdrop and I have some taxidermal crows that I've mounted. The scars we moved past are striking, the limestone is angled at 45 degrees and popular with crows, patched with lichens and softened by mosses. Watson explained that he saw the crows hanging over a vegetable garden that used to contain scarecrows. The purpose of the scarecrow is to scare crows away from your crop, but the crows have grown wise over the years and no longer fear it. In both traditions the white rooster, which crows at dawn to dispel the darkness of night, is highly esteemed. Eagles, vultures, penguins, ravens, crows, doves, and ostriches are just a few of the birds that do double time as species and symbols. The airport attracts corvids, rooks, crows, lapwings and wood pigeons among others. One of my cows died a while back, and in that case, the crows ate it up in a matter of hours. During my last visit to the Ethiopian highlands, I watched as huge flesh-eating carrion crows circled the parched crop fields. For example, if crows eat your seeds, lay chicken wire on top of the newly planted seedbed. Great Horned Owls do not build their own nests, but use nests built by hawks, crows, magpies, herons, or other large birds. It is the habit of crows to perch like sentinels on the tops of isolated trees, where they can see what is going on in all directions. Indeed, just now there are too many acorns for even such greedy birds as crows and magpies. And we'll also have gorillas, crows, dogs, and the new president of the Royal Society of London. The colour scheme is muted but for vivid splashes of red, with most shots dominated by looming shadows, towers or circling carrion crows. They've become almost as common as carrion crows and are killing not only game birds but many waders. Show More Sentences Large black birds like crows and grackles are often referred to as trash birds. Swans competing for territory, herons being mobbed by crows and ducklings jumping for flies. Urban-living carrion crows have learned to use road traffic for cracking tough nuts. The turkey vulture flew over our house and landed on the neighbor's yard where it stayed for minutes fighting off two crows. Losses occur, however, when the unattended eggs are taken by crows or ravens, or when nesting birds are disturbed by humans. Every few minutes the growl of a giant UN Hercules transport plane scatters coal-black carrion crows from the trees. She smiled wryly to herself, thinking that perhaps he, like the local songbirds and crows, had flown south to avoid the oncoming winter. At first light, not long after the mourning doves begin their day-long cooing, the crows decide on their day's agenda. Defense includes sentry birds alerting the flock to danger, as well as mobbing, in which several crows surround a potential predator and call out a forceful alarm. I love the rainy windy days of fall when thousands of crows populate the near landscape, cawing and scowling. Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen. There are 113 members of the avian family called Corvidae, or corvids, which includes crows, jackdaws, rooks, ravens, as well as jays, nutcrackers and magpies. Pressing the dodge button at the right time causes her to temporarily burst into an invincible flock of crows. The bottom half of the composition shows crows frolicking in the light of day, on their scavenging hunt while busily cackling and gossiping to one another. Outside the city walls, the fields would have supported birds such as starlings, rooks and crows, just as you can see today but in greater abundance. People often write in about the conventional terms for groups of animals and people, especially birds, such as parliament of rooks or murder of crows. Like jays and crows, their cousins, magpies are mischievous and bold. If crows have become unwelcome guests, Martens recommends scare tactics, such as Mylar tape, pie tins, scary eye balloons, scarecrows, and auditory alarms. Suddenly, they all turn and start scrabbling down the path, the sound of a helicopter echoing overhead and sending a cloud of crows whirling into the sky. At first I thought I was hearing things or maybe it was crows or seagulls. Show More Sentences As I had my eyes closed, I could hear the sounds, I heard the sounds of crows cawing nearby, and I felt wings brush past my hands and feet so often. When their cousin is battered to death and left on the moors for the crows, they stick together and refuse to co-operate with policeman Ben Cooper. Animal activists also found caged birds including parrots, pigeons and crows in the apartment as well as a sewer rat, a hedgehog and piles of food and animal feces. No precise data on West Nile-related deaths are available for wild crows, but bird-watchers have noted far fewer of the birds in certain areas where they once thrived. A few rats and some crows stirred at his coming and scampered or flew off, releasing angry caws and twitters as they cursed Romon for interrupting their meal. But periods of high heat and drought send such common urban-dwelling species as crows, blue jays and robins out of the city in search of fresh water. Sidney, an impressive looking Harris hawk, decided he was far more interested in a murder of crows resting in nearby fields than the food on offer in his handler's grasp. Cedar waxwings, crows, finches, flycatchers, grosbeaks, grouse, jays, mockingbirds, pheasants, thrushes, vireos, and woodpeckers feed on their fruits. Small colonies went to live in the tall ash trees in Rhue and Dawros until finally there was silence and the raucous cackle of the crows of Banada was silenced forever. The eagles are courting, the crows building nests, the Steller's jays have come back to sit and fling insults and we can see baby salmon in the shallows of the river. Endris Abtu often watches the huge flesh-eating carrion crows circling over the parched crop fields and distant hilltops around his village in south Wollo. As I entered the park just beyond the lane, my thoughts were again interrupted, this time by a short series of caws coming from three crows flying overhead. Flying north through the lush green agricultural lands bordering the Tigris I watched hundred of egrets along with small flocks of rooks and hooded crows. In Europe, hooded crows have been known to prey upon mussels. Quill pens were generally cut from the outer hollow wing feathers of swans or geese but feathers from eagles, crows, and turkeys were also found to be suitable. The performance culminates with an attractive dance featuring six drums and a mass of dancing female crows with amazing movement synchrony and effective choreography. The stinking filth on the streets was not even pleasing to crows, though. Among the birds foraging for food, there were a couple of crows. Their voices have the drunken croak and rumble of old crows. We mostly saw the usual sparrows, doves, crows, chickadees, and titmice. Tons of Blue Jay are in flight right now as they are involved in a migration of their own. Show More Sentences Blue jays and crows rob smaller birds' nests, often those of robins and catbirds, of both eggs and young, while hawks may steal the same from the crows and jays! The virus is primarily a disease of wild birds, particularly crows, blue jays, and birds of prey, and is transmitted by mosquitoes to horses and humans. After the hot summer days the mist sometimes hung over the moorland as if a whole lake were behind the old trees, among which the crows and the daws were fluttering. He came to a certain place near Bevagna, in which a great many birds of various types had congregated, including doves, crows and some others commonly called daws. The Corvidae family of birds such as crows, blue and grey jays, ravens and magpies are particularly susceptible to illness and death from West Nile Virus. The trees cast their skeletal frames against the gunmetal sky and the crows, like a flock of hooded widows, lamented their lot with throaty cries. Species hardest hit appear to be blue jays, American crows, black-billed magpies, tufted tit-mice, and black-capped and Carolina chickadees. New Caledonian crows consume a range of foods, but require tools to extract wood-boring longhorn beetle larvae from their burrows. Illegal poison baits set for foxes or crows are indiscriminate and kill protected birds and other animals. Another showed black crows pecking at a cutout of Switzerland. When crows, jays, or kingbirds spot a hawk, they often mob it because they don't want it around. We have found the greatest enemies to be rats, native cats, hawks and crows. Some of the local birds might include the turkey vulture, crows, scrub jays, red-tailed hawks, the acorn woodpecker or the phainopepla. I tightened the belt on my gorblimey trousers, and stoned some crows, all the better to fit in. Each year Dave Pooler and his gamekeeping team at the Rhug estate, Corwen, will trap and shoot an average of 800 carrion crows. A single positively selected West Nile viral mutation confers increased virogenesis in American crows. A kabaragoya, scenting food, tried to drive away the crows, slashing at them with its tail. Highest mortalities are seen in the corvid family, which include jays, magpies and crows. Mynas and crows are blamed for the dwindling population of the indigenous laughing dove as they prey on its chicks. There are mynahs, crows, pigeons, hud huds either lying dead on the grass or in their final death throes. Show More Sentences A Viking legend states that Vikings used to take caged crows aboard ships and let them loose if they got lost. The increased movement of birds, mainly crows, black kites, falcons and eagles, often results in some serious security threats. Predators of eggs and nestlings include raccoons, skunks, badgers, foxes, crows and ravens, dogs and owls. Its decline is due to loss of habitat, disturbance, predation by foxes, crows, etc. The other crows call her sweetling and hushling, and give her cigarette ends to put in her little bag. Grouse moor management involves routine control of predators such as foxes, crows and stoats. Without the murder of crows roosting in its branches, Nevermore Tree looked as bare as a skeleton. Dancing on graves just makes the gravedancers look silly and annoys the crows. These include primates such as chimpanzees, some dolphin communities, and crows. Around 668 bird species are found there, including crows, sparrows, mynas, hawks, falcons, and eagles. The crows and their relatives are fairly large birds with strong bills and are usually intelligent and adaptable. A pair of crows were walking around the trap, planning the axes of advance for a pincer attack on its frantic occupant. The crows would instinctively head for land, giving the sailors a course to steer. When she peered out she spotted the terrified ferret, nicknamed Dobby by his rescuers, being attacked by a 20 to 30 crows. The crows and the birds would have a drink, too, and do a bit of goona. A community-operated irrigation canal, or acequia, threads its way from the riverbanks where the crows chatter into a neighborhood of low adobe abodes. This made her angrier than before, and she blew her silver whistle twice. Straightway a great flock of wild crows came flying toward her, enough to darken the sky. He invented also pincers, hammers, iron crows, and the anvil, or stith. Ravens are songbirds belonging to the corvid family like crows and magpies, and they surpass most of the other avian species in terms of intelligence. Birds that feed on toads include herons, crows and birds of prey. Show More Sentences The birds that prey on pigeons in North America can range in size from American kestrels to golden eagles and can even include gulls, crows, and ravens. And he who were pleasantly disposed, could not well avoid to liken it to the exploit of that gallant man, who thought to pound up the crows by shutting his park gate. For his part, Melchior was growing unhappy with the murder of crows. They had been patiently following Arthur for hours, trailing him from town to country. Species represented at the sites include ravens, crows, rooks, magpies, jackdaws, various types of eagle and vulture, red and black kites, kestrels and falcons. Gaslark in his splendour on the golden stairs saying adieu to those three captains and their matchless armament foredoomed to dogs and crows on Salapanta Hills. Examples from Classical Literature They both visit us in the cold weather and fraternise with the common crows. It is then the great horned owl of the swamp courts his mate, the big hawks pair, and even the crows begin to take notice. He goes to Charleston races, but never backs a horse, scarcely, and one mint julep would make him see two crows. I know the turpitude of these crows, and their lack of respect for merit and birth. He unlocked the place carelessly, looking over his shoulder at a kite fighting with two nesting crows. Far up a hillside of poplar, a horde of crows were clamoring over some corvine scandal, perhaps. Whirled down the sky like black maple leaves caught up aloft, came two more crows. In other words, such an ingrate ought to have a flock of crows for pall-bearers! In return for this service of theirs, the crows and foxes share in all man's eatables. One could easily imagine it to be a congress of crows exorcised over an insurgency move and demanding the previous question. In the carving we have the crows first coming upon the sight of the counterfeit carrion as it lies near a rabbit warren. The crow is euryphagous and, as shown by this study, the diets of crows a few miles apart may differ. The people said they were sorry, but declared it was the fault of the pilfering crows. Weed seeds such as those of spurges, ragweed, and pigweed were found in trace amounts in the diet of the crows. As for me, I am over-young to break my neck and be left on the mountain-side to fatten crows. Being euryphagous, crows exert a stabilizing influence on many kinds of prey and on the biotic community as a whole. And, like chanticleer at the sight of the sun, he flaps his wings and crows. Magpies, crows, and jays, evince symptoms of caducity at the same age. Just look up yonder, burl, and see how the crows have gone to fighting. He who would strip you of veils and wrappers, and paints and gestures, would just have enough left to scare the crows. Show More Sentences Even the crows cawing above the woods did not sound so dolefully. The walls were hung with white silk, upon which flocks of black crows were embroidered in black diamonds. They fight over the fitches, and leave the wheat to the crows. Forward, on the forepeak and in the crows nest, lookouts had been doubled. Starlings held onto the number two spot, but carrion crows moved up two places from fifth in 2013 to third this year. There were crows and catcalls showered upon him when he retreated without the horse. But there are plenty of large black and white magpies, large crows, jackdaws, swallows, titlarks, starlings and cuckoos. It's been hanging around Skelmanthorpe and has made friends with a mob of crows who seem to have learned to imitate its squawk already. He blew nigh the top of his head off with an old musket that they had for scarin' crows with. Why sit ye all moping by the fireside, like crows round a dead horse, when there is man's work to be done within a few short leagues of ye? In 2000, Staten Island, New York, reported 10 human West Nile virus cases and high densities of dead crows. All India was at work in the fields, to the creaking of well-wheels, the shouting of ploughmen behind their cattle, and the clamour of the crows. Archie also lived in fear of the town's hooded crows, forcing him to resort to finding scraps of food at the supermarkets. The wild crows flew in one great flock toward Dorothy and her companions. It was now the latter week of May, and the crows and blackbirds had already discovered the little, green, rolledup leaf of the Indian corn just peeping out of the soil. Maine forbids Sunday hunting entirely, while New Jersey allows bow hunting for deer and allows land owners to kill crows, woodchucks and other vermin. Chicks of the great spotted cuckoo don't directly kill chicks of the carrion crows, so the crow parents have a chance of producing their own offspring. There has been much speculation about the level of damage that is done to our breeding birds by magpies, carrion crows, hooded crows and other corvids. Starlings claimed first place with an average of nine birds seen per school, moving up from fifth position, while carrion crows moved up one place to eighth. All of them are like carrion crows fed by the injustice of the threshold. Show More Sentences Having run against a young shopkeeper who was gaping at the crows and who had splashed him, Aramis with one blow of his fist had distanced him ten paces. Even hooded crows, the grey waistcoated scavengers of the far north and Ireland,are making regular passage and winter appearances in several localities. The crows sailing overhead perhaps watched me while I took this survey. Find more words! 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