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crow Large, black bird found in many temperate woodlands and farm areas worldwide. Living in large flocks, crows prey on small animals and eat plants and carrion. They can be crop pests. They are intelligent birds and can sometimes be taught to repeat phrases. The female lays three to six greenish eggs. Family Corvidae. See also
jay;
magpie;
raven;
rook
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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CROWS NEST ACROSS SYRACUSE; LARGE NUMBERS HAVE MIGRATED INTO CITY FOR THE WINTER.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 1/17/2008; 700+ words
; ...which some resident crows may join. Smaller resident roosts represent crow families, in which...young for years. Crow movement: Crows tend to spend their...Kevin McGowan's crow Web site at www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/crowinfo.htm...
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Crows: gifted but difficult
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/10/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...the average crow usually lives to age...Like us, it appears crows began moving to the...with cases of crow divorce recently being...California. Crows have a huge vocabulary...back yard, too. Crow families have territories...your neighborhood crows really are your crows...
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Crows: crass, clever and cunning.
Magazine article from: New York State Conservationist; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...To "crow," to "eat crow," and "crows-feet" around the eyes...internationally recognized for work on crow migratory habitats. Crows also foster suspicion because...feel a special kinship to crows. A single, common crow helped me grow up and was...
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400 CROWS FALL ON DAY 1; VANDALS SPRAY-PAINT "KILLERS' ON CITY HALL, GAZEBO.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 2/8/2004; 700+ words
; ...contest in Cayuga County. The Crow Dogs - Dave Polmanteer, Scott...Ontario County - bagged 106 crows Saturday to put them comfortably...this year's contest. The Crow Dogs won the contest last year with a total of 82 crows. The team had a few beers...
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CROWS SPREAD WASTE, VANDALIZE TRASH; WHAT WOULD YOU DO?(Editorial)(Editorial)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 2/1/2003; 700+ words
; ...the city of Auburn. Crows wreak havoc with the...vehicles covered with crow feces. Others wake...that is, until the crows desecrated both the...not exempt from the crow's reach: Feces...of this weekend's crow hunt. CAPTION(S...Staff photographer CROWS CONGREGATE at Fort...
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Crows appear to make tools right-handedly. (Science News of the week).(New Caledonian crows in New Zealand)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News; 12/15/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...researchers. New Caledonian crows make probes from tree...production of 3,700 crow tools, Hunt and his...13 NATURE. The crow, Corvus moneduloides...Hunt described these crows fashioning a wide...inconvenience, the crows had worked left edges...Hunt says that the crow work "is the ...
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CROWS' SMARTS CAN BE SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News; 4/11/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...used as both a noun and a verb. Crows crow. They strut, they brag, they swagger. Pranksters at heart, crows are the only birds I know that...mischievous schoolboys. Simply put, crows are something to crow about. With the possible exception...
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 "Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, MO)")
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Crow latest in line of MU's Friday night fighters: Sophomore pitcher piles up innings, victories.
Newspaper article from: Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, MO); 5/23/2007; 700+ words
; ...lot of Justin James in Missouri ace Aaron Crow. James was a seemingly tireless worker...surprise that they're riding the arms of Crow and Rick Zagone, two pitchers who learned...Major League Baseball draft. Last year, Crow came from nowhere to keep Missouri in the...
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CROWS GET A BLESSING; THEY AND OTHER WILDLIFE ARE FOCUS OF EVENT IN AUBURN.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 12/8/2003; 700+ words
; ...writer In the season of the crow, in this city of crows, a pastor, a duck and...have started their pro-crow campaign early this year, sponsoring a crow-costumed character in...providing information about crows at public events. Sarnicola...
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CROW HUNT VIEWPOINTS DUEL ON WEB; ORGANIZERS AND PROTESTERS OFFER ONLINE INFORMATION ON CAYUGA COUNTY EVENT.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 1/25/2004; 700+ words
; ...cars and awnings. The crows have generated complaints...residents and a controversial crow shoot contest. For years...information about Auburn's crows to www.roadsideamerica.com in 1999. Both the Crow Shoot and Save the Crows sites contain links to...
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Crow
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
Crow ETHNONYMS: The Crow often refer to themselves as the Apsaalooke or Absaroka, which are...Euro-American trappers led to their addressing the Apsaalooke as the Crow. Orientation Identification and Location « The historical homeland...
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Crow, Sheryl
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990
SHERYL CROW Born: Kennett, Missouri, 11 February 1962...Everyday Is a Winding Road" Sheryl Crow's debut album came out in 1993, at the...professional. By the early 2000s, Sheryl Crow had established herself as one of the leading...
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Trammell Crow Company
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
Trammell Crow Company 3500 Trammell Crow Center 2001 Ross Avenue Dallas, Texas 75201 U.S.A. (214...Estate Agencies and Services; 6711 Holding Companies Trammell Crow Company, the largest real estate company in the world, built...
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Jim Crow
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Jim Crow Jim Crow was the colloquial term for forms of systematic discrimination employed...expression insinuates the legal components of the color line (e.g., Jim Crow laws), but also encompasses the cultural and symbolic conventions of...
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Crow Dog, Ex Parte
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
Crow Dog, Ex Parte, 109 U.S. 557 (1883...vote of 9 to 0; Matthews for the court. Crow Dog, a Brule Sioux, was tried, convicted...States ). Sioux tribal law required that Crow Dog, as punishment for murder, must support...
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