Archive for 'jackdaws'
Corvid Sculptures by Terence Coventry
I came across these beautiful corvid sculptures by Terence Coventry and thought I would share them. According to kingsplace.co.uk,
In each of these animal and human figures Coventry masters an amazing balance between anatomy and sculptural form. He distills and refines everyday subjects into powerful and monumental images that have a connection in all of us.
Posted: August 21st, 2010 under art, corvid, Culture, jackdaw, jackdaws, sculptures, Terence Coventry.
Tags: artist, corvid, corvid sculpture, jackdaw, jackdaw sculpture, sculpture, Terence Coventry
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Jackie – Avebury’s Albino Jackdaw
A kind man named Andrew brought to my attention Jackie, an albino jackdaw, who lives in the trees of Avesbury (in the UK), the largest stone circle in the world, in SW England.
Avebury Stone Circle, originally uploaded by Quentin C.
As majestic as the place is the albino jackdaw, locally named ‘Jackie’, who lives in the [...]
Posted: August 6th, 2010 under Albino, Albino Jackdaw, Crow, jackdaw, jackdaws, Jackie, Stone circle of Avesbury, UK.
Tags: albino and jackdaw, albino corvid, albino jackdaw, albino jackdaw in avesbury, Avesbury, jackdaw, jackdaw and albino, Jackie the albino jackdaw, stone circle in Avesbury, UK
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Corvid Bookends
I found these fantastic crow bookends, raven bookends and rook bookends all over the internet…
Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” bookends
Handcrafted Wooden Raven bookends
Antique Wooden Crow bookends
Posted: June 28th, 2010 under art, bookends, corvid, Corvidae, Corvids, Crow, crows, jackdaw, jackdaws, Raven, ravens, ravens in literature, Rook.
Tags: book ends, crow bookends, jackdaw bookends, raven bookends, rook bookends
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Jackdaw
The beauty of the internet… I love the jackdaw and I couldn’t describe it better than the wonderful editors who contributed to the Wikipedia entry…so I will share that with you…it is well worth the read…
The Jackdaw (Corvus monedula), sometimes known as the Eurasian Jackdaw, European Jackdaw, Western Jackdaw, or formerly simply the daw, is [...]
Posted: June 10th, 2010 under corvid, Corvidae, Corvidae Family, Corvids, Corvus monedula, Daw, Eurasian Jackdaw, European Jackdaw, jackdaw, jackdaws, Western Jackdaw.
Tags: Corvidae, Corvids, corvus, Corvus monedula, Daw, Eurasian Jackdaw, European Jackdaw, Western Jackdaw
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Corvid Abnormalities
Abnormalities can be found in all life forms–corvids included. Here are some interesting photos I found of corvids with two abnormalities deformed beaks and partial albino-ism–leucistic or albino corvids.
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Read about THE MYSTERY OF THE LONG-BEAK SYNDROME here. Or you can read Passerines with Deformed Bills by Julie A. Craves (an article) here.
There seems to be [...]
Posted: May 9th, 2009 under abnormalities, Albino, beak, bill, deformed beak, deformities, jackdaw, jackdaws, jays, Leucistic, Partially-albino, Raven, ravens, Stellar's Jay, Steller's Jay.
Tags: abnormal blue jay, abnormal crow, abnormal raven, abnormal Stellar's Jay, abnormal Steller's Jay, abnormalities in corvids, albino stellar's jay, albino stellars jays, Albino steller's jay, corvid abnormalities, crow abnormalities, Crow with deformed beak, deformed beaks, leucistic crow, leucistic jackdaw, leucistic magpie, partially albino crow, partially albino jackdaw, partially-albino magpie, raven abnormality, raven with deformed beak, raven with deformed bill, Stellar's Jay with deformed beak, Steller's Jay with deformed beak
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Jackdaw Quotes
The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal’s chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,– In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a [...]
Posted: April 17th, 2009 under jackdaw, jackdaws, quotations, quotes.
Tags: jackdaw quotes, quotes about jackdaws
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