caw
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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
Forty-seven miles west of Barry and Po’s yard, seagulls caw and circle the property that was once Pungo district hospital.
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2018
They’d caw at her from the trees and wait for the shiny things that always appeared in her footsteps.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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
On a recent evening, Lange motioned toward a mass of American crows bellowing their raucous caws as they perched on tree branches just outside the airport's boundaries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2018
An echo of thrilled caws erupts in the massive space.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Blackbirds cawed from trees and flapped over block after block of destruction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025
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
Crows in nearby trees cawed incessantly as the sisters considered what has happened here since the EPA arrived.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2010
Old Familiar cawed at the waves of energy coming off High John’s fury.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
Thousands of cawing gulls perched on a rocky island, and newly hatched chicks bobbed in the water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025
"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
After chatting and cawing — Fix is losing his ability to speak — they become friendly.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
The noises of the Puget Sound filled the air: ship horns blowing, gulls cawing, music playing.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2021
A pair of ravens exploded off a tree branch and flew around the oasis cawing wildly.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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