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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.
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.
Crow, who had been waiting for this, gathered the coals up and hid them in a kangaroo skin bag. The women soon discovered the theft and chased him, but the bird simply flew out of their reach and perched at the top of a high tree. [1] Bunjil the Eaglehawk, who had seen all of this, asked Crow for some of the coals so that he could cook a possum ...
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.
Today Crow religion includes more than traditional Crow beliefs. Over the past 100 years, several Christian sects have established themselves amongst the Crow people. The origins of Christianity among the Crows can be traced to the reservation era, when the Crow were confined to a relatively small tract and carefully supervised by white ...
The carrion crow is noisy, perching on a vantage point such as a building or the top of a tree and calling three or four times in quick succession, with a slight pause between each series of croaks. During each series of calls, a crow may perform an accompanying gesture, raising its shoulders and bowing its head and neck downwards with each caw.
The hooded crow (Corvus cornix), also called the scald-crow or hoodie, [1] is a Eurasian bird species in the genus Corvus. Widely distributed, it is 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 ...
First English-language edition publ. Farrar Straus & Giroux A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories is a 1973 book of short stories written by Isaac Bashevis Singer.It shared the 1974 National Book Award for Fiction with Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. [1]