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Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, magpies, jackdaws, jays, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers. [1] [2] [3] In colloquial English, they are known as the crow family or corvids.
Generalist and omnivorous [5] predators like this fish crow, Corvus ossifragus, eat eggs among many other prey when they have the opportunity. Generalist predators can have a substantial effect on ground-nesting birds such as the European golden plover , Pluvialis apricaria : in Norway 78.2% of nests of this species were preyed on.
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The azure jay (Cyanocorax caeruleus) (Brazilian Portuguese: Gralha-azul, meaning blue jackdaw) is a passeriform bird of the crow family, Corvidae.It is found in the Atlantic Forest, especially with Araucaria angustifolia, in south-eastern Brazil (São Paulo to Rio Grande do Sul), far eastern Paraguay and far north-eastern Argentina.
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Black crow painted on a plate. Eating crow is a colloquial idiom, [1] used in some English-speaking countries, that means humiliation by admitting having been proven wrong after taking a strong position. [2] The crow is a carrion-eater that is presumably repulsive to eat in the same way that being proven wrong might be emotionally hard to ...
The Indian jungle crow is resident throughout its range. It is usually seen singly, in pairs or small groups. It is an opportunist and generalist omnivore. It may soften its food by dropping it in water, [20] and have also been observed to eat sand after feeding on meat from a carcass. [21] They have a range of cawing vocalizations.