"order to destroy the cross-border vampiric threat. Riley and Sam cannot count on back-up from their normal team, as high-level string pulling has pushed them off the case officially. The four discover there is more than just seemingly random vampire murders when more than one supernatural threat shows up and local hospitals begin filling with the sick and the dying. Crows are also prevalent as well. Many are mysteriously dying. Living crows seem to be warning the foursome of future threats based on an old poem. The poem goes like this: ""One crow sorrow/Two crows mirth/Three crows a wedding/Four crows"
"except South America, and several islands. The crow genus makes up a third of the species in the family Corvidae. The members appear to have evolved in Asia from the corvid stock, which had evolved in Australia. The collective name for a group of crows is a ""flock"" or a ""murder"". The genus name is Latin for ""raven"". Recent research has found some crow species capable of not only tool use, but also tool construction. Crows are now considered to be among the world's most intelligent animals with an encephalization quotient equal to that of many non-human primates. ""Corvus"" species"
"the genus ""Corvus"", derived from the Latin word for ""raven"". The specific epithet, ""corax""/κοραξ, is the Ancient Greek word for ""raven"" or ""crow"". The modern English word ""raven"" has cognates in all other Germanic languages, including Old Norse (and subsequently modern Icelandic) ""hrafn"" and Old High German ""(h)raban"", all which descend from Proto-Germanic ""*khrabanas"". An old Scottish word ""corby"" or ""corbie"", akin to the French ""corbeau"", has been used for both this bird and the carrion crow. Obsolete collective nouns for a group of ravens (or at least the common raven) include ""unkindness"" and ""conspiracy"". In practice, most English-speakers use"
"a similarity with the American version of ""umble"", since the ""Oxford English Dictionary"" defines crow (sb3) as meaning ""intestine or mesentery of an animal"" and cites usages from the 17th century into the 19th century (e.g., Farley, ""Lond Art of Cookery"": ""the harslet, which consists of the liver, crow, kidneys, and skirts)."" A popular Australian demonym for South Australian people is ""Croweater"". The earliest known usage dates to 1881 in the book ""To Mount Browne and Back"" by J. C. F. Johnson who writes: ""I was met with the startling information that all Adelaide men were croweaters… because it was"
"to be larger than females. The most usual call is ""CaaW!-CaaW!-CaaW!"". The American crow is all black, with iridescent feathers. It looks much like other all-black corvids. They can be distinguished from the common raven (""C. corax"") because American crows are smaller, from the fish crow (""C. ossifragus"") because American crows do not hunch and fluff their throat feathers when they call and from the carrion crow (""C. corone"") by the enunciation of their calls. American crows are common, widespread, and susceptible to the West Nile virus, making them useful as a bioindicator to track the virus's spread. Direct transmission"
"Collective noun In linguistics, a collective noun refers to a collection of things taken as a whole. Most collective nouns in everyday speech are mundane and ""not"" specific to just one kind, such as the word ""group"", which is applied to ""people"" in the phrase ""a group of people"", but is also applied to ""dogs"" in the phrase ""a group of dogs"". Other collective nouns ""are specific"" to one kind, especially terms of venery, which identify specific groups of animals. For example, ""pride"" as a term of venery always refers to lions, never to dogs or cows. Similarly, a group"
"""Kangaroo"", meaning ""I don't understand you"", which Cook took to be the name of the creature. This myth was debunked in the 1970s by linguist John B. Haviland in his research with the Guugu Yimithirr people. Kangaroos are often colloquially referred to as ""roos"". Male kangaroos are called bucks, boomers, jacks, or old men; females are does, flyers, or jills; and the young ones are joeys. The collective noun for kangaroos is a mob, troop, or court. There are four species that are commonly referred to as kangaroos: In addition, there are about 50 smaller macropods closely related to the"
"head, neck and shoulders are particularly dense and silky. The legs and feet are generally black and the bill grey-black. Rooks are distinguished from similar members of the crow family by the bare grey-white skin around the base of the adult's bill in front of the eyes. The feathering around the legs also looks shaggier and laxer than the congeneric carrion crow. The juvenile is superficially more similar to the crow because it lacks the bare patch at the base of the bill, but it has a thinner bill and loses the facial feathers after about six months. Collective nouns"
"Hooded crow The hooded crow (""Corvus cornix"") (also called hoodie) is a Eurasian bird species in the ""Corvus"" genus. Widely distributed, it is also known locally as Scotch crow and Danish crow. In Ireland, it is called ""caróg liath"" or grey crow, just as in the Slavic languages and in Danish. In German, it is called ""mist crow"" (""Nebelkrähe""). Found across Northern, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, as well as parts of the Middle East, it is an ashy grey bird with black head, throat, wings, tail, and thigh feathers, as well as a black bill, eyes, and feet. Like other"
"epithet ""orru"" is not known but may be derived from a Papuan name. There are three subspecies: The Bismarck crow (""Corvus insularis"") on the Bismarck Archipelago was formerly considered a subspecies. In Central Australia southwest of Alice Springs, the Pitjantjatjara term for race ""ceciliae"" is ""kaanka"". The term ""wati kaanka"" refers to a light-fingered man or someone who hangs around suspiciously. The Torresian crow is a large corvid, about the same size (48–53 cm in length) as the Eurasian carrion crow but with a more robust bill and slightly longer legs. The plumage of the Torresian Crow is glossy black"
"raccoons, raptors and ravens. The crows often gather in large groups to mob these predators. Generally solitary, but sometimes built in association with a few other individuals in small, loose colonies in trees or sometimes large bushes. Very rarely, it will nest on cliffs in a recess or even on the ground in a remote area if overhung by a rock for shelter. It is a typical crow nest with 4-5 eggs usually laid. The voice is very varied, and many types of call are made, but the most common are usually described as a high pitched """"caw"""" and the"
"Northern Hemisphere. The modern English word ""raven"" has cognates in all other Germanic languages, including Old Norse (and subsequently modern Icelandic) ""hrafn"" and Old High German ""(h)raban"", all of which descend from Proto-Germanic ""*hrabanaz"". Collective nouns for a group of ravens (or at least the common raven) include ""unkindness"", ""treachery"", and ""conspiracy"". In practice, most people use the more generic ""flock"". Raven A raven is one of several larger-bodied species of the genus ""Corvus"". These species do not form a single taxonomic group within the genus. There is no consistent distinction between ""crows"" and ""ravens"", and these appellations have been"
"raids amongst the Gaels. The usual Gaelic word for cattle is ""crodh"", often Anglicised in place-names as ""crow"", although the words ""cro"", ""crocharsach"", and ""crò"" are all connected with sheep, sheep enclosures or meadows. An alternate etymology of ""creach"" is related to ""craig"", and ""creag"", and the English word ""crag"", refers to a rock (with which word it rhymes), or the bare rock crest of a hill (related words are ""cruach"", for a mountain, pinnacle, or a rounded hill that stands apart...or for any type of pile, or heap, and 'cnoc', for a hill or eminence); and 'maol', which is"
"House crow The house crow (""Corvus splendens""), also known as the Indian, greynecked, Ceylon or Colombo crow, is a common bird of the crow family that is of Asian origin but now found in many parts of the world, where they arrived assisted by shipping. It is between the jackdaw and the carrion crow in size ( in length) but is slimmer than either. The forehead, crown, throat and upper breast are a richly glossed black, whilst the neck and breast are a lighter grey-brown in colour. The wings, tail and legs are black. There are regional variations in the"
"they make. In English, for example, there is the universal fastener which is named for the sound it makes: the zip (in the UK) or zipper (in the U.S.) Many birds are named after their calls, such as the bobwhite quail, the weero, the morepork, the killdeer, chickadees and jays, the cuckoo, the chiffchaff, the whooping crane, the whip-poor-will, and the kookaburra. In Tamil and Malayalam, the word for crow is ""kaakaa"". This practice is especially common in certain languages such as Māori, and so in names of animals borrowed from these languages. Although a particular sound is heard similarly"
"crow."" referring to the fact that the most common call of the American crow is a distinct ""caw caw"", while that of the fish crow is a nasal ""nyuh unh"". This species occurs on the eastern seaboard of the United States from Rhode Island south to Key West, and west along the northern coastline of the Gulf of Mexico and follows many river systems inland for quite some distance. Coastal marshes and beaches, rivers, inland lakes and marshes, river banks, and the land immediately surrounding all are frequented. Food is taken mainly from the ground or shallow water where the"
"as a harsh """"ar-ar-ar-ar"""" or """"karh-karh-karh"""" and lacks the whispering note of the White-necked raven. The pied crow was first described in 1776 by Statius Muller. Its specific name is the Latin adjective ""albus"", meaning ""white"". Recent findings indicate that based on mitochondrial DNA, common ravens (""C. corax"") from the north of the United States are more closely related to those in Europe and Asia than to those in the California clade, and that common ravens in the California clade (""C. corax sinuatus"") are more closely related to the Chihuahuan raven (""C. cryptoleucus"") than to those in the Holarctic clade."
"lighthearted, humorous or facetious collective nouns. Collective noun In linguistics, a collective noun refers to a collection of things taken as a whole. Most collective nouns in everyday speech are mundane and ""not"" specific to just one kind, such as the word ""group"", which is applied to ""people"" in the phrase ""a group of people"", but is also applied to ""dogs"" in the phrase ""a group of dogs"". Other collective nouns ""are specific"" to one kind, especially terms of venery, which identify specific groups of animals. For example, ""pride"" as a term of venery always refers to lions, never to"
"American crow The American crow (""Corvus brachyrhynchos"") is a large passerine bird species of the family Corvidae. It is a common bird found throughout much of North America. American crows are the New World counterpart to the carrion crow and the hooded crow. Although the American crow and the hooded crow are very similar in size, structure and behavior, their calls are different. The American crow, nevertheless, occupies the same role that the hooded crow does in Eurasia. From beak to tail, an American crow measures , almost half of which is tail. Mass varies from about . Males tend"
"Eating crow Eating crow is a colloquial idiom, used in some English-speaking countries, that means humiliation by admitting having been proven wrong after taking a strong position. Crow is presumably foul-tasting in the same way that being proven wrong might be emotionally hard to swallow. The exact origin of the idiom is unknown, but it probably began with an American story published around 1850 about a dim-witted New York farmer. ""Eating crow"" is of a family of idioms having to do with eating and being proven incorrect, such as to ""eat dirt"" and to ""eat your hat"" (or shoe), all"
"Three crows Three crows are a symbol or metaphor in several traditions. Crows, and especially ravens, often feature in European legends or mythology as portents or harbingers of doom or death, because of their dark plumage, unnerving calls, and tendency to eat carrion. According to Druid tradition they're also believed to bring upon new changes (death to one phase of your life and the birth to another) A version of the ""three crows"" is probably based on the ""three ravens"" folk tale where three crows plot to devour the corpse of a dead knight. Then they are thwarted by the"
"called simply ""crows"", or ""iron crows""; William Shakespeare used the term ""iron crow"" in many places, including his play ""Romeo and Juliet"", Act 5, Scene 2: ""Get me an iron crow and bring it straight unto my cell."" In Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe, the protagonist uses crowbars as pickaxes but refers to these tools as iron crows: ""As for the pickaxe, I made use of the iron crows, which were proper enough, though heavy."" Crowbar (tool) A crowbar, also called a wrecking bar, pry bar or prybar, pinch-bar, or occasionally a prise bar or prisebar, colloquially, in Britain"
"word ""crag"", refers to a rock (with which word it rhymes), or the bare rock crest of a hill (related words are ""cruach"", for a mountain, pinnacle, or a rounded hill that stands apart...or for any type of pile, or heap, and 'cnoc', for a hill or eminence). An alternate etymology of ""creach"" is ""plunder"", presumably in reference to herds of cattle, which were often targets of thefts and cattle raids amongst the Gaels. The usual Gaelic word for cattle is ""crodh"", often Anglicised in place-names as ""crow"", although the words ""cro"", ""crocharsach"", and ""crò"" are all connected with sheep,"
"selling pressure on the stock market. There are those who recommended, however, that investors should not be alarmed since an identical three crow pattern in a primary uptrend will likely break out downward but reverse in a few days. Three crows Three crows are a symbol or metaphor in several traditions. Crows, and especially ravens, often feature in European legends or mythology as portents or harbingers of doom or death, because of their dark plumage, unnerving calls, and tendency to eat carrion. According to Druid tradition they're also believed to bring upon new changes (death to one phase of your"
"Large-billed crow The large-billed crow (""Corvus macrorhynchos""), formerly widely referred to as the jungle crow, is a widespread Asian species of crow. It is very adaptable and is able to survive on a wide range of food sources, making it capable of colonizing new areas, due to which it is often considered a nuisance, especially on islands. It has a large bill which is the source of its scientific name ""macrorhynchos"" (Ancient Greek for ""large beak""), and it is sometimes known by the common name thick-billed crow. It can also be mistaken for a raven. Johann Georg Wagler first described"
"Crow language Crow (native name: ""Apsáalooke"" ) is a Missouri Valley Siouan language spoken primarily by the Crow Nation in present-day southeastern Montana. The word, ""Apsáalooke,"" translates to ""children of the large beaked bird."" It is one of the larger populations of American Indian languages with 4,280 speakers according to the 1990 US Census. Crow is closely related to Hidatsa spoken by the Hidatsa tribe of the Dakotas; the two languages are the only members of the Missouri Valley Siouan family. Despite their similarities, Crow and Hidatsa are not entirely mutually intelligible. According to Ethnologue with figures from 1998, 77%"
"ashy crowned finchlark, rufous tailed finchlark, crested lark, dusky crag martin, wire-tailed swallow, red-rumped swallow, gray shrike, bay-backed shrike, rufous backed shrike, golden oriole, black drongo (king crow), white-bellied drongo, brahminy myna, rody paster, common myna, bank myna, Indian tree pie, house crow, jungle crow, black-headed cuckooshrike, scarlet minivet, common iora, red-vented bulbul, common babbler, yellow-eyed babbler, large grey babbler, gray headed flycatcher, red-breasted flycatcher, white browed fantail flycatcher, paradise flycatcher, Franklin's ween warbler, tailorbird, lesser whitethroat, Indian robin, crested bunting, magpie robin, brown rock chat, collared bush chat, pied bush chat, large cuckooshrike, wood shrike, grey tit, yellow-cheeked tit,"
"a wide variety of calls or vocalizations. Crows have also been observed to respond to calls of other species; presumably, this behavior is learned because it varies regionally. Crows' vocalizations are complex and poorly understood. Some of the many vocalizations that crows make are a ""koww"", usually echoed back and forth between birds, a series of ""kowws"" in discrete units, a long caw followed by a series of short caws (usually made when a bird takes off from a perch), an echo-like ""eh-aw"" sound, and more. These vocalizations vary by species, and within each species they vary regionally. In many"
"in English, including “stone curlews”, so the choice of the name “thick-knees” is not easy to defend but is a clear illustration of the hazards of the facile coinage of terminology. For collective nouns for various subjects see a list of collective nouns (e.g. a flock of sheep, pack of wolves) Some organizations have created official lists of common names, or guidelines for creating common names, hoping to standardize the use of common names. For example, the Australian Fish Names List or AFNS was compiled through a process involving work by taxonomic and seafood industry experts, drafted using the CAAB"
"respectfully. The origin of ""counting crows"" as augury is British; however, the British version rather is to ""count magpies"" — their black and white pied colouring alluding to the realms of the living and dead. In some Native American mythologies, especially those in the Pacific Northwest, the raven is seen as both the Creator of the World and, separately, a trickster god. In medieval times, crows were thought to live abnormally long lives. They were also thought to be monogamous throughout their long lives. They were thought to predict the future, to predict rain and reveal ambushes. Crows were also"
"is and the tail is . The body mass can vary from . Males tend to be larger than females. The most usual call is a loud, short, and rapid ""caaw-caaw-caaw"". Usually, the birds thrust their heads up and down as they utter this call. American crows can also produce a wide variety of sounds and sometimes mimic noises made by other animals, including other birds. Visual differentiation from the fish crow (""C. ossifragus"") is extremely difficult and often inaccurate. Nonetheless, differences apart from size do exist. Fish crows tend to have more slender bills and feet. There may also"
"thought to lead flocks of storks while they crossed the sea to Asia. Corvus Corvus is a widely distributed genus of medium-sized to large birds in the family Corvidae. The genus includes species commonly known as crows, ravens, rooks and jackdaws; there is no consistent distinction between ""crows"" and ""ravens"", and these appellations have been assigned to different species chiefly on the basis of their size, crows generally being smaller than ravens. Ranging in size from the relatively small pigeon-sized jackdaws (Eurasian and Daurian) to the common raven of the Holarctic region and thick-billed raven of the highlands of Ethiopia,"
"used to imply that the referent is being introduced into the discourse for the first time. However, the nominal head is almost always marked by the indefinite determiner /""-m""/. [[Category:Crow tribe]] [[Category:Endangered languages of the United States]] [[Category:Indigenous languages of the North American Plains]] [[Category:Native American language revitalization]] [[Category:Western Siouan languages]] Crow language Crow (native name: ""Apsáalooke"" ) is a Missouri Valley Siouan language spoken primarily by the Crow Nation in present-day southeastern Montana. The word, ""Apsáalooke,"" translates to ""children of the large beaked bird."" It is one of the larger populations of American Indian languages with 4,280 speakers according"