caw

Example Sentences

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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

“My drawing with watercolor markers. A common visitor to my backyard, where they loudly caw each morning if I am late with the daily in-shell peanut allotment.”

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 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

The sound of his waking voice, perhaps a caw as hoarse as mine had been when I’d washed up on this very shore.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk