rooks

Now, scientists report that some relatives of crows called rooks used the same stone-dropping strategy to get at a floating worm.

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Now, scientists report that some relatives of crows called rooks used the same stone-dropping strategy to get at a floating worm.

One Of Aesop's Fables May Be Rooted In Fact 2009

All was as still in the Close as a cathedral-green can be between the Sunday services, and the incessant cawing of the rooks was the only sound.

Life's Little Ironies 2006

The feasting ground of the rooks is the next field, and here they come to eat their walnuts.

Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

Year after year they held their parliaments and cawed and chattered and fussed; year after year they built their nests and hatched their eggs; year after year, I suppose, the old ones gradually died off and the young ones took their place, though, but for knowing this must be so, no one would have suspected it, for to all appearance the rooks were always the same – ever and always the same.

The Cuckoo Clock 1893

"The rooks are a very powerful tribe, and the magpies and cuckoos and blackbirds are liable to side with them, if they seem to be stronger than we are."

Policeman Bluejay 1887

All was as still in the Close as a cathedral-green can be between the Sunday services, and the incessant cawing of the rooks was the only sound.

Life's Little Ironies Thomas Hardy 1884

They are not yet ripe as a crop; the rooks are a good guide in that respect, and they have not yet set steadily to work upon this their favourite autumn food.

Hodge and His Masters Richard Jefferies 1867

'Endeavour, Madam,' said he, 'to procure him knowledge; for really ignorance to a rich man is like fat to a sick sheep, it only serves to call the rooks about him.'

Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781

The rook study, for example, dubbed the rooks’ behavior as both “insightful,” and “creative.”

Invoking the Magic of the Mind - by Joe Kloc William Harryman 2009