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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

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

The raven turns its head and lets out a sharp, metallic caw.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

The raven caws at it from its perch in the balcony.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

Under diffused blue lighting, bartenders in short-sleeve lumberjack shirts sloshed drinks and the crowd cawed for an encore.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2017

A bird cawed and soared on a wind current; small feet pattered across the floor behind the window.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2016

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

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2010

Crows cawed, sundown was near, but his home was not; the lane of Chinese elms had turned into a tunnel of darkening green, and he lived at the end of it, half a mile away.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

Even the sea gulls, whose cawing and mewling were so much a part of the commotion of the Bosporus, fell in line with this solemn tableau.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2022

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

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2021

Across the pale, oyster-colored sky of twilight a flock of crows flew, sharply black, and whirred over him, cawing loudly.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck