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carrion crow

NOUN
  1. American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard

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  • Carrion Crow nests are conspicuous and we were able to observe birds delivering food to nestlings using spotting scopes.
  • Carrion crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them. 
  • Disturbance after eggs are laid provides opportunities for predation by carrion crows, jays, kestrels, magpies, foxes and mink.
  • • Other species you can hear include wood pigeon, carrion crow, blue tit, blackcap, mallard, pheasant, coot and the great-crested grebe. Listen to the National Trust audio guide to Britain's bird species
  • THE other species may very properly be called the coped vulture, and is by the inhabitants called the carrion crow; as to bulk or weight, he is nearly equal to either of the others before mentioned. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
  • And the tomtit and canary have, no doubt, at least private agreement that the utterances of the nightingale are _galimatias_, while the carrion crow thinks the eagle a fool for dwelling so high and flying so much higher. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
  • Meanwhile, 29 species of habitat generalists - like the carrion crow and the wren - have increased by an average of 23 percent.
  • Each occasion a large gull or carrion crow passed overhead, the buntings took all wing, providing a most impressive spectacle.
  • Disturbance after eggs are laid provides opportunities for predation by carrion crows, jays, kestrels, magpies, foxes and mink.
  • Carrion crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them. 
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