caw

Carrion crows can count out loud, effectively calling “one, two, three” as they caw, researchers report today in Science.

From Science Magazine ● May 22, 2024

Crows caw Cassandra-like about imminent danger or snatch an ornament off a character’s head and fly away in a direction that leads that character to her destiny.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2021

Meanwhile, those blessed crows sit and caw and take care of themselves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2021

It’s in the caw of the crow above that the Ngarigo, the Indigenous people of the Snowy Mountains, hear the voices of ancestors.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 13, 2019

He could hear Beat Box and Boom Box going “caw, caw, caw” behind him.

From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia

One 16th Century tale sees Saint Peter trick Welshmen with the call caws bobi - Welsh for roasted cheese - which he said reflected the dish's cultural ties to Wales.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2025

Estrildid finch songs, Japanese quail calls, squirrel monkey caws and even the ultrasonic vocalizations of house mice were used for comparison in the study.

From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2024

As scientists collect terabytes on terabytes of whale clicks and crow caws, they're hoping that deep learning can find patterns and meaning in the sounds that human beings have always missed.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 19, 2023

A bard crafts a sad ballad, And sang that ballad back: ’Twas a dark and sad and clammy day; A lark caws daftly, madly.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2022

“I understand your anger, Elias. You feel pain, sorro—” His words fall upon my ears like the incessant caws of a crow.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

Dierks Bentley’s stomps on his porch in Colorado jiggled the camera and an off-camera crow cawed at him.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 5, 2020

Among the hundreds of crows observed during the study, the majority merely cawed loudly and dive bombed at the corpse without touching it.

From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2018

A workman passed through the garden, a bird cawed from the shade and flew away.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2018

Crows in nearby trees cawed incessantly as the sisters considered what has happened here since the EPA arrived.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2010

Meanwhile, Old Familiar cawed and hunted brand flies.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

"These crows rise early and interrupt our sleep with their annoying squeals and cawing," Mombasa resident Victor Kimuli told the BBC.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2024

“It changed my life because I didn’t have to be ashamed of what I was writing,” she says while sitting on the patio of her Long Beach apartment, seagulls cawing in the distance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

The noises of the Puget Sound filled the air: ship horns blowing, gulls cawing, music playing.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2021

As my mother and I were taking an evening walk down an alleyway in our neighborhood, several cawing crows drew our attention up toward a fabulous spectacle of reds and greens in the sky.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2019

The crescent of weather-beaten bird cages, the rusted chairs left on the back porch, the sound of birds cawing and flapping around—it was all kinda freaking Genie out.

From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds