corvine bird

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corvine bird - birds of the crow family

oscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus

Corvidae, family Corvidae - crow; raven; rook; jackdaw; chough; magpie; jay

crow - black birds having a raucous call

Corvus corax, raven - large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail

Corvus frugilegus, rook - common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow

Corvus monedula, daw, jackdaw - common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery

chough - a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage

jay - crested largely blue bird

nutcracker - speckled birds that feed on nuts

magpie - long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous chattering call

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If the bada truly is some kind of crow, then the MBh has three regularly occurring terms for 'crow' in contexts where animals are feeding upon the flesh of the dead (kaka, vayasa, and the bala/bada/vada complex), in addition to another corvine bird, the kakola, generally glossed as 'raven'.

Some storks and eagles eat carrion; herons and ospreys do not: kankas and kuraras (and badas) in the Mahabharata

This includes large numbers of stoats, weasels and corvine birds. In addition, thousands of tons of highly toxic lead shot are showered on to the countryside every year.