Thursday, April 10, 2008

Jackdaw

The jackdaw typically takes food from the ground but does get some food in trees. It eats insects and other invertebrates, weed seeds and particle, scraps of human food in towns, trapped fish on the shore, and will more eagerly take food from bird tables than other Corvus species.The Jackdaw is a small, black, gray-naped Eurasian crow. The 1984 records were among the first of a number of occurrences in eastern North America, obviously representing a natural, transoceanic vagrancy (Smith 1985).

In some cultures, a jackdaw on the top is said to expect a new arrival; otherwise, a jackdaw settling on the roof of a house is an omen of death and coming across one is measured a bad premonition.

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