How To Use Jackdaw In A Sentence
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A clothesline is the strongest indication that this battered house is occupied, although jackdaws seem to be nesting in the chimney.
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There are two sub-families: The Corvinae includes crows, ravens, nutcrackers, jackdaws, and rooks, while jays, magpies, and choughs compose the Garrulinae.
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And jackdaws say they can sort you for whiz, pills and charlie.
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And the jackdaw, unheedful, sought to roost the forbidden bough, though hands reached out in anguish and the world hushed.
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He's got a nasty old splint on the inside of his knee and it often flares up,’ said the Jackdaws Castle trainer.
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It was above Jackdaw Crag that my mobile phone glowed yellow like a jellyfish when inadvertently trodden on.
Country diary: Grasmere, Lake District
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The corvines - crows, rooks, jays, magpies and jackdaws - are relentless stealers of other birds' eggs and chicks.
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He pointed out that not only pigeons live in the South Parade area, but ravens, jackdaws, collared doves, blackbirds, thrushes, wagtails, tits and the now-endangered house sparrow.
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Epops (the hoopoe), sometime called Tereus, and now King of the Birds, they determine, under the direction of a raven and a jackdaw, to seek from him and his subject birds a city free from all care and strife.
The Birds
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In the distance, a vast flock of jackdaws funnels upwards from the trees and lazily circling, follows the fleeting sunlight over my head, uttering in unison their loud ‘chack-chack’ contact calls on the way to roost.
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The corvines - crows, rooks, jays, magpies and jackdaws - are relentless stealers of other birds' eggs and chicks.
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Here, we saw a menagerie of farm animals and other small creatures at close quarters, too close when it came to the rats, which scurried along a run beneath our feet, and a tame jackdaw, called Jack, which decided to use my head as a perch.
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Jackdaws are the lovebirds that tell us spring is near
Times, Sunday Times
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Rooks caw in the trees, jackdaws nest in their new chimney, sparrows feed on neighbours' tables.
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The corvids of North America consist of one species of jackdaw, four crows, two ravens, one nutcracker, two magpies, and ten species of jays.
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And over and around the sound of the waters would be the songs of the birds-starling and lark, crow and wren, jackdaw and robin, bluetit and sparrow, nightingale, thrush-all of them daring each other to come encroach on a territory, shouting out love for a mate or desire for one.
The Gates Of Sleep
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The corvids of North America consist of one species of jackdaw, four crows, two ravens, one nutcracker, two magpies, and ten species of jays.
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The pioneering animal behaviorist Konrad Lorenz was so convinced of the perceptive capacities of crows and their relatives that he wore a devil costume when handling jackdaws.
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Smaller birds such as pigeons, thrushes, jackdaws, robins and sparrows would also have been seen on a regular basis.
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Corvids such as Crows, Ravens, and Jackdaws were more complex characters in Aesop's fables because they could be both vain and foolish, a powerful combination to be sure.
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It soon attracts the attention of the local corvine tribe and is mobbed by rooks and jackdaws.
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Eventually most of the gulls and pigeons settled down on the road, and the jackdaw flew off to another chimneypot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Epops (the hoopoe), sometime called Tereus, and now King of the Birds, they determine, under the direction of a raven and a jackdaw, to seek from him and his subject birds a city free from all care and strife.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2
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At dawn for the past two mornings, great scraggly flocks of rooks mixed with a few jackdaws pour over our base moving from their roosts to the freshly plowed fields.
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The story is that the jackdaw was very quietly displumed.
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Cherry and pear trees laden with fruit can become barren overnight when jackdaws decide to strike.
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A cliff is nest site for jackdaws; they pop in and out of the football and fist-sized holes in the soft yellow magnesian limestone.
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Netting unless very well put on the trees prove no good as the clever jackdaw or cheeky magpie can get in with ease in the smallest opening.
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Birds nested in the porch and in the guttering, and a bold jackdaw started to build in the cold unused chimney.
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The corvines - crows, rooks, jays, magpies and jackdaws - are relentless stealers of other birds' eggs and chicks.
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Crows belong to the family of corvids, which also includes rooks, jays, ravens and jackdaws.
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Crows belong to the family of corvids, which also includes rooks, jays, ravens and jackdaws.
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Let everie sound of a pitch keep still in reson-ance, jemcrow, jackdaw, prime and secund with their terce that whoe betwides them, now full theorbe, now dulcifair, and when we press of pedal (sof!) pick out and vowelise your name.
Finnegans Wake
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It soon attracts the attention of the local corvine tribe and is mobbed by rooks and jackdaws.
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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.
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Regardless, I sat outside on the backstairs watching the jackdaws gathering above and the sheep on the mountain opposite.
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Although the work is highly crafted, and contrives to be as persuasive as possible, the jackdawish colligation of claims and perspectives never amounts to what might properly be called an argument.
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The corvines - crows, rooks, jays, magpies and jackdaws - are relentless stealers of other birds' eggs and chicks.
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Eventually most of the gulls and pigeons settled down on the road, and the jackdaw flew off to another chimneypot.
Times, Sunday Times
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I love the sound of happy Jackdaws, chacking away.
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At dawn for the past two mornings, great scraggly flocks of rooks mixed with a few jackdaws pour over our base moving from their roosts to the freshly plowed fields.
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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.