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The rook (Corvus frugilegus) is a member of the family Corvidae in the passerine order of birds. It is found in the Palearctic, its range extending from Scandinavia and western Europe to eastern Siberia. It is a large, gregarious, black-feathered bird, distinguished from similar species by the whitish featherless area on the face.
The Rooks Have Returned (1871) is considered by many critics to be the high point in Savrasov’s artistic career. Using a common, even trivial, episode of birds returning home, and an extremely simple landscape, Savrasov emotionally showed the transition of nature from winter to spring.
The crow (sometimes a raven or vulture) is Shani's Vahana. As a protector of property, Shani is able to repress the thieving tendencies of these birds. Dhumavati, the widow goddess associated with strife and inauspiciousness, is depicted riding a crow or in a horseless chariot bearing an emblem of a crow.
The birds are unconcerned with, even oblivious of, human drama. Those "versed in country things" — who understand the unsentimental course of nature — know that the birds haven’t wept. However, by prefacing the phrase with “one would have to” (be versed in country things), Frost keeps his narrator from sounding like a chastising know ...
The Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder is the earliest to attest that the story reflects the behaviour of real-life corvids. [13] In August 2009, a study published in Current Biology revealed that rooks, a relative of crows, do just the same as the crow in the fable when presented with a similar situation. [14]
The first track of avant-garde cellist Okkyung Lee's album Ghil (2013) is titled "The Crow Flew After Yi Sang", in reference to Yi's poem "Crow's Eye View". Limbus Company, a video game developed by Project Moon, contains a character named after Yi Sang, also utilizing a special move by the name "Crow's Eye View".
Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow is a literary work by poet Ted Hughes, first published in 1970 by Faber & Faber, and one of Hughes' most important works. Writing for the Ted Hughes Society Journal in 2012, Neil Roberts , Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield , said:
The Rooks Have Returned [1] (Russian: Грачи прилетели, lit. 'The rooks have flown in') is a widely known [2] [3] landscape painting by Russian painter Alexei Savrasov (1830–1897). It was created in 1871 and is kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery (inv. 828).