Crows = Scary
They are. They're probably the biggest bird around here that struts around on the ground, since hawks and eagles and buzzards usually perch in trees. And man the racket. A bunch of them were going off really early this morning, like 6am, and it sounded so ominous and weird. And here's your word lesson for the day:
http://www.rinkworks.com/words/collective.shtml
While other animals get cute names for their group like "pod" or "shoal" or "gaggle," the croaking crow gets a couple very odd ones (the literary one I hadn't heard of before, but it makes sense, like they're perceived to be telling each other something mysterious).
http://www.rinkworks.com/words/collective.shtml
While other animals get cute names for their group like "pod" or "shoal" or "gaggle," the croaking crow gets a couple very odd ones (the literary one I hadn't heard of before, but it makes sense, like they're perceived to be telling each other something mysterious).
posted by KPaffenroth at
10:48 AM
2 Comments:
It just doesn't get better than "a murder of crows." And I don't mean the Tom Berenger/Cuba Gooding Jr. movie.
I always wondered what the difference between a raven and a crow was, and recently an orinthologist friend of mind clarified it for me: a raven has SIX pinions on its wing, whereas a crow only has FIVE.
So there you have it--the difference between a raven and a crow is a matter of a pinion.
:)
Ahem. Puns aside (as they should be), ravens are MUCH larger. If I saw an unkindness of them (another good one) in my yard, I think I'd get really scared.
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