Archive for 'Rook'
Rook — BBC Nature
The BBC has a lovely webpage with lots of information about the Rook. It has videos too. =)
Posted: November 15th, 2011 under Corvus Frugilegus, Rook.
Tags: bbc, Corvus Frugilegus, Rook, Rooks
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The Crow Girls
After the fantastic response to my audio recording of Charles de Lint’s Make a Joyful Noise (listen to it here), I decided to make a concerted effort to find all the literary references to these two magical characters, the Crow Girls. I have read them in various stories and books of Charles de Lint’s. I [...]
Posted: January 10th, 2011 under art, Charles de Lint, corvid, Corvid Art, Corvidae, Corvidae Family, Crow, Crow art, crows, folklore, Literature, mythology, Rook, The Crow Girls.
Tags: Charles De Lint, Crow girls, Mary Ann Harris, Newford series, The crow girls, The Crow Girls Christmas
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The Crow and the Pitcher more than fable?
The Crow and the Pitcher, originally uploaded by AnnaleeBlysse.
Scientists believe the fable of the crow and the pitcher might have been fairly accurate given the new research showing rooks using rocks to raise the level of water where a worm resided… to bring the worm up to their level.1
They are such incredibly intelligent birds. The [...]
Posted: December 21st, 2010 under Aesop, corvid, corvid brain, Corvid Cognition, Corvidae, Corvidae Family, Corvids, Crow, crows, Crows in literature, Fables, feeding, folklore, Food, intelligence, Literature, lore, research, Rook, Tool Use.
Tags: Aesop's fable, crow and the pitcher, crow intelligence, fluid mechanics, intelligence, the crow and the pitcher, Tool Use
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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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The Rook
The Rook
Originally uploaded by ufopilot
A rook is thought to bring prosperity if it nested near your house…
Posted: October 3rd, 2009 under Crow, crows, Rook.
Tags: Rook, rook fable, rook wives tale, wive's tale about rooks, wives tale
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Sketch of a Rook
We found this beautiful sketch at One Pink Goose.
Posted: August 14th, 2009 under art, One Pink Goose, Rook, sketch.
Tags: crow art, Crow sketch, One Pink Goose, rook art, rook sketch
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Rooks and tools
Researchers in the Britain may have stumbled upon something interesting about rooks that Aesop observed some two-thousand-five-hundred years before. Rooks use different size stones to raise water levels in a tube that contains a worm. Is this really a recent ‘discovery’…read Aesop’s fable The Crow and the Pitcher:
A Crow, half-dead with thirst, came upon a [...]
Posted: August 7th, 2009 under Aesop, Corvidae, Corvids, Corvus Frugilegus, intelligence, research, Rook, Tool Use, video.
Tags: Aesop, Aesop's fable, britain, corvid fable, corvid myth, corvid story, fables, pebbles, research, rook myth, rook story, stones, the crow and the pitcher, the pitcher and the crow, Tool Use, tool use and crows, tool-use and birds, tool-use and rooks, water level, worm
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Rooks, Easter Lore and More
Like many in the corvid family Rooks are attached to many legends, myths, lore and superstitions. In Shropshire, it was believed that rooks never carried sticks to their nests on Sundays or Ascension Day, but simply sat quietly on trees and did not work. It was also believed to be futile to wear new clothes [...]
Posted: April 13th, 2009 under Easter Lore, etymology, folklore, legend, lore, myth, mythology, name origin, Rook, stealing, suspicious.
Tags: corvid legend, corvids and legends, corvids and myths, frugilegus, Rook, Rook origin, rookery, Rooks, rooks and easter folklore, rooks and easter legends, Rooks and easter lore, rooks and easter myths, the meaning of the word rook, the rook and easter folklore, the rook and easter legend, the rook and easter lore, the rook and easter myths, the rook and england, Where the name rook came from?
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Corvus frugilegus (The Rook)
Communique
Originally uploaded by Mark Cummins
Another excellent photograph found on flickr. This one is by Mark Cummins. If you click on the photograph it will take you to the URL where it is originally posted.
I am not 100% certain what particular bird this is in the corvidae family. However, I think it might be a rook [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2008 under Corvidae, Corvids, Corvus Frugilegus, Flickr, Habitat, omnivorous, Photograph, Pictures, Range, Rook, story.
Tags: corvid, Corvidae, corvus, Corvus Frugilegus, Crow, Europe, Great Britain, Habitat, Rook, Rook diet, Rook habitat, Rook nesting, Rook poem, Rooks, story
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Here Comes The Rural Rook
Here Comes The Rural Rook
Originally uploaded by Mark Cummins
Ok, I know! I am going hogwild with the flickr photos today but really, aren’t they worth looking at? This is a beautiful photo by Mark Cummins (on Flickr) of a Rural Rook.
They are so interesting to look at, they are thinkers. I can appreciate that quality [...]
Posted: October 29th, 2008 under Corvidae, Corvids, Corvus Frugilegus, Mark Cummins, Photograph, Rook.
Tags: common rook, corvid, Corvidae, corvus, Corvus Frugilegus, food gathering, Mark Cummins, Rook, Rural rook
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