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  • noun crow; raven; rook; jackdaw; chough; magpie; jay

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Examples

  • These are the crows corvidae, such as the raven, carrion crow, rook, and jackdaw.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • These are the crows corvidae, such as the raven, carrion crow, rook, and jackdaw.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • These are the crows corvidae, such as the raven, carrion crow, rook, and jackdaw.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • These are the crows corvidae, such as the raven, carrion crow, rook, and jackdaw.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • Don't know if they had spotted an owl in the trees a few houses over, or just felt like being obnoxious corvidae...

    Get the shotgun, Maw, they're back... jhetley 2007

  • We are wildlife rehabilitators specializing in raptors and the corvidae, and apprentice falconers.

    If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • We cannot also fail to regard it as a remarkable proof of the superior organization and character of the corvidae, that they are adapted for all climates, and accordingly found all over the world.

    Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

  • So, also, if we take the typical group of the birds, the incessores or perchers, and look in it for its typical group, the conirostres, and seek there again for the typical family of that group, the corvidae, we may expect to find a very marked superiority in organization and character.

    Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

  • As the corvidae, too, are found in every part of the earth -- almost the only one of the inferior animals which has been acknowledged as universal -- so do we find man.

    Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

  • The difference between the height of the line 1 and the line 5 gives an idea of the difference of being the head type of the aves, (corvidae,) and the head type of the mammalia, (bimana;) a.b. c.d. 5, again, represent the five groups of the first order of the mammalia; a, being the organic structure of the highest simia, and 5, that of man.

    Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

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