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Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .
American crows can also produce a wide variety of sounds and sometimes mimic noises made by other animals, including other birds, such as barred owls. [ 16 ] Visual differentiation from the fish crow ( C. ossifragus ) is extremely difficult and often inaccurate.
Some cave-dwelling species, including the oilbird [45] and swiftlets (Collocalia and Aerodramus species), [46] use audible sound (with the majority of sonic location occurring between 2 and 5 kHz [47]) to echolocate in the darkness of caves. The only bird known to make use of infrasound (at about 20 Hz) is the western capercaillie. [48]
Giseigo (擬声語): mimics sounds made by living things including humans. (e.g. wan-wan for a dog's bark) Giongo (擬音語): mimics sounds in nature made by inanimate objects. (e.g. zā-zā for heavy rainfall) Gitaigo (擬態語): describes states of the non-auditory external world.
The call is given both in flight and while perched, at which time the bird fans its tail and bows while making each caw. Calls in flight are usually given singly, in contrast to the carrion crow's, which are in groups of three or four. Other sounds are made around the rookery; a high-pitched squawk, a "burring" sound and a semi-chirruping call.
The archosaurian shift from larynx to syrinx must have conferred a selective advantage for crown birds, but the causes for this shift remain unknown. [10] To complicate matters, the syrinx falls into an unusual category of functional evolution: arising from ancestors with a larynx-based sound source, the syrinx contains significant functional overlap with the structure it replaced.
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A carrion crow scavenging on a beach in Dorset, England. A crow (pronounced / ˈ k r oʊ /) is a bird of the genus Corvus, or more broadly, a synonym for all of Corvus.The word "crow" is used as part of the common name of many species.