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Rooks nest collectively in the tops of tall trees, often close to farms or villages; the groups of nests are known as rookeries. Rooks are mainly resident birds, but the northernmost populations may migrate southwards to avoid the harshest winter conditions. The birds form flocks in winter, often in the company of other Corvus species or ...
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. Currently, 139 species are included in this family.
Hooded crow (Corvus cornix) in flight Jungle crow (Corvus macrorhynchos) scavenging on a dead shark at a beach in Kumamoto, Japan. Medium-large species are ascribed to the genus, ranging from 34 cm (13 in) of some small Mexican species to 60–70 cm (24–28 in) of the large common raven and thick-billed raven, which together with the lyrebird represent the larger passerines.
An unlikely friendship unfolded at the Twala Trust Animal Sanctuary in Zimbabwe, where an orphaned vervet monkey named William has found solace in a rescue kitten named Marble.
The books include A Witness Above, A Killing Sky, Cold Quarry (2001, 2002, 2003), and Kitty Hitter (2009). In Irish poet William Butler Yeats's poem, "The Second Coming", Yeats uses the image of "The falcon cannot hear the falconer" as a metaphor for social disintegration. American poet Robert Duncan's poem "My Mother Would Be a Falconress" [57]
A rookery is a colony breeding rooks, and more broadly a colony of several types of breeding animals, generally gregarious [1] birds. [2] Coming from the nesting habits of rooks, the term is used for corvids and the breeding grounds [3] of colony-forming seabirds, marine mammals (true seals or sea lions), and even some turtles.
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