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The crows eat the corn and become so drunk they cannot fly, but wheel and jump helplessly near the ground where the farmer can kill them with a club.
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In a Japanese city, carrion crows have discovered how to eat nuts that they usually find too hard to tackle.
* Many birds, such as crows, eat crop seed
Mair 1994: 20-21 ) says, " People eat meat, deer eat grass, giant centipedes savor snakes, hawks and crows relish mice.
Hawks, crows, raccoons, crayfish, and other snake species ( such as the coral snake and king snake ) will eat garter snakes, with even shrews and frogs eating the juveniles.
Another man, a native Indian, is also trapped there who catches wild crows and eats them, but Morrowbie in his pride declares, " I shall never eat crow!
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They would be provided slight shelter from the sun by the corn, and would deter many animals from attacking the corn and beans because their coarse, hairy vines and broad, stiff leaves are difficult or uncomfortable for animals such as deer and raccoons to walk through, crows to land on, etc.
There is a tale being told in Moss about the Church fire: The city of Moss always had a lot of crows, most likely because of the corn being harvested in the region.
The folk concept of a dancing crow predates the Jump Jim Crow minstrelsy and has its origins in the old farmer's practice of soaking corn in whiskey and leaving it out for the crows.
The Quinnipiac were avid falconers, using hawks to keep crows away from the corn.
He tells her about his creation and of how he at first scared away the crows, before an older one realised he was a straw man, causing the other crows to start eating the corn.
Normally it would have been a boy slave's responsibility to keep crows out of the corn.
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When he was offered the opportunity to become Minister of Justice in 1885, Annie Thompson encouraged him to leave that bunch of " sere old crows " ( her words ) on the Nova Scotia bench and get out into a world which would better test and demonstrate his talents.
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A white crow which Apollo had left to guard her informed him of the affair and Apollo, enraged that the bird had not pecked out Ischys ' eyes as soon as he approached Coronis, flung a curse upon it so furious that it scorched its feathers, which is why all crows are black.
In preparation for the film, Kirk Douglas practiced painting crows so he could reasonably imitate van Gogh at work.
Some nuts are particularly tough, so the crows drop the nuts among the traffic.
Smaller birds — such as crows, swallows, robins, wrens and so on — are very common.
The nests are vulnerable to attack, particularly by crows, the more so early in the year when the leaf cover is not fully formed.
The sun crows would often descend from heaven on to the earth and feast on these grasses, but Xihe did not like this thus she covered their eyes to prevent them from doing so.
In 2003, a controversial, organized crow hunt proved ineffective at reducing their numbers and the problem ( concerns for public health and the sheer noise of so many crows ) continues.
When all ten decided to rise at once, the effect was devastating to crops, so the gods sent their greatest archer Houyi, who shot down nine crows and spared only one.
It is about to do so when the cock crows, signaling morning, and the ghost instead disappears.
Others claim that the Keraits were named so because they originally lived at a place called ' Khereet ' meaning ' crow-with ' or ' place with crows '.
Castell Dinas Brân translates into English literally as Castle of the City of Crows, so the simple explanation for the name of the castle is as a place where crows live.
The cawing of the crows symbolises sadness and grief in the Hindu mythology, so the devotees offer the crows food to avert grief and deaths in their homes. Tihar in Nepal and Diwali in India represent the divine attachment between Human and other animals and birds in our nature.
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When first informed he disbelieved the crow and turned all crows black ( where they were previously white ) as a punishment for spreading untruths.
A Viking legend states that Vikings used to take caged crows aboard ships and let them loose if they got lost.
French interpreters translated the name as gens du corbeaux ( people of crows ), and they became known in English as the Crow.
" set up the people industry to go down the countryside and shoot people down, just like animal, they left them lying there for the hawks and crows ..
Jesus tells them they will all fall away that night ; after Peter protests he will not, Jesus says Peter will deny him three times before the cock crows.
Unusually for a thrush, they often nest in small colonies, possibly for protection from large crows.
Because of the origins of its name, when Shakespeare writes of " the crows and choughs that wing the midway air " act 4, scene 6 or Henry VIII's Vermin Act of 1532 is " ordeyned to dystroye Choughes, Crowes and Rookes ", they are clearly referring to the Jackdaw.
The young are preyed upon by crows, ravens, hornbills, large owls and kites as they are vulnerable in Acacia tree tops, with no known incidents of predation on adults.
Like most crows, they will scavenge at landfills, scattering garbage in the process.
Some crows that were captured from the wild showed the ability to use mirrors to find objects they could not see with a direct line of sight.
The closest relatives of the choughs are the typical crows, Corvus, especially the jackdaws in the subgenus Coloeus, but the Pyrrhocorax species differ from Corvus in that they have brightly coloured bills and feet, smooth, not scaled tarsi and very short, dense nasal feathers.
These birds have black plumage similar to that of many Corvus crows, but they are readily distinguished from members of that genus by their brightly coloured bills and legs.
Fish crows also appear as if they have shorter legs when walking.
Despite their resemblance to crows and ravens, they are only distantly related to the corvidae, instead belonging to an Afro-Asian radiation of birds of family Malaconotidae.
They are distinguishable from magpies and crows by their comical flight style in amongst foliage, appearing to almost fall about from branch to branch as if they were inept flyers.
She has loved Mytho since childhood after he defended her from crows, and now takes advantage of his apathy to pretend they are a couple.
* Corinth and Sicyon: Neighbouring towns in the northern Peloponnese, they are used metaphorically in a prophecy quoted by the oracle monger to define an intermediate space inhabited by dogs and crows i. e. Cloudcuckooland ( line 968 ).
Hawks have been observed following American Badgers to capture prey they flush and the two are considered potential competitors .< ref > Competition over carcasses may occur with American Crows and several crows working together can displace a hawk.
Like crows, they may also make use of metal wires.
Certain animals such as crows, cats, owls, moths, vultures, and bats are associated with death ; some because they feed on carrion, others because they are nocturnal.
During passage, they may be preyed on by crows.
They are aggressive and fearless birds, and although only 28 – cm ( 11 – in ) in length, they will attack much larger species that enter their nesting territory, including crows and birds of prey.
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