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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

So I resolve to let everyone squawk and caw until they get bored, or become distracted, or fall asleep, or cheer up.

From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2021

And at that, Spencer cocks his head to the side and lets out a proud caw.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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

An accordionist spurred the crowd of about 150 to dance, clap or yelp bird caws in approval.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 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

They marched alongside the stream as it fattened into a river, alert all the while to the constant sound track of caws, shrieks, growls, and croaks.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

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

Sitting in the air-conditioned cafeteria while the cool breezes beckoned and the sea gulls gently cawed a few yards beyond, Josh Weintraub, 18, a film student, looked up from the laptop he was working on.

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2014

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

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2010

The raven cawed from the edge of the clearing.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

Johnson pledges his devotion to tropes like cawing ravens and thunderous rainstorms while giving his various red herrings silly nicknames like “the knife robot” and “the clangy clunk.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 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

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

As I looked around, a cloud of crows flew over me, straight for the woods in back of the barn, cawing their heads off.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones