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Feather bases are not normally visible when observing birds in the field, but can sometimes be seen on a windy day if the feathers are ruffled. [18] The three species of raven are more heavily set with a broader chest than the two crow species, with the forest raven the stockiest of all. [ 19 ]
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The Crow Exposed by Melchior d' Hondecoeter (ca. 1680), oil on canvas, 170.2 × 211.5 cm., Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The Bird in Borrowed Feathers is a fable of Classical Greek origin usually ascribed to Aesop.
Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles is a trilogy of young adult fantasy novels written by Canadian playwright and screenwriter Clem Martini. All of the main characters are crows , which are not so much anthropomorphic as simply animals of human intelligence who have their own culture, religion, and folktales based on Native American mythology.
Pellets from a long-eared owl. The alimentary canal of a bird. Long-eared owl pellets and rodent bones obtained from dissected pellets (1 bar = 1 cm). A pellet, in ornithology, is the mass of undigested parts of a bird's food that some bird species occasionally regurgitate.
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The Australian raven can be distinguished from the two species of crow occurring in Australia by the grey base of the feathers, which is white in the latter species. The demarcation between pale and black regions on the feather is gradual in the ravens and sharply delineated in the crows.
The greater coucal or crow pheasant (Centropus sinensis), is a large non-parasitic member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes. A widespread resident in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia, it is divided into several subspecies, some being treated as full species. They are large, crow-like with a long tail and coppery brown ...