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Gemma Elizabeth Whelan [citation needed] was born in Leeds in 1981 [1] and grew up in the Midlands. [2]She attended The King's High School for Girls in Warwick [3] and the London Studio Centre.
Clark's nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana), sometimes referred to as Clark's crow or woodpecker crow, is a passerine bird in the family Corvidae, native to the mountains of western North America. The nutcracker is an omnivore, but subsists mainly on pine nuts , burying seeds in the ground in the summer and then retrieving them in the winter by ...
Toshiyuki Morikawa (森川 智之, Morikawa Toshiyuki, born January 26, 1967) is a Japanese voice actor, narrator and singer who is the head of Axlone, a voice acting company he founded in April 2011. [1]
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.
Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, magpies, jackdaws, jays, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers. [1] [2] [3] In colloquial English, they are known as the crow family or corvids.
The feathers on the bird's chin are fine and can form a small tuft when erected. [4] The bushcrow's breast and flanks are pale grey, fading into white on the rear flanks, belly, and undertail. [ 9 ] On the wings, the lesser and median upper-wing coverts are grey, while the rest of the wing is a slightly glossy blue-black.
The book is narrated from rapidly alternating perspectives: the Dad, the Boys, and Crow—a human-sized bird that can speak, "equal parts babysitter, philosopher and therapist" to the family. [5] [6] The title refers to a poem by Emily Dickinson, ""Hope" is the thing with feathers". [7] Crow is the Crow from Ted Hughes' 1970 poetry book. [8]
Australian crow and raven species have white eyes and lack the white rump, and the similar-sized Australian magpie has red eyes and prominent black and white plumage. [38] The larger grey currawong is readily distinguished by its lighter grey overall plumage and lack of white feathers at the base of the tail. [40]