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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354331" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Common Crow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Common Crow, &quot;Caw-Caw&quot;—with its familiar sound<br>Is a harmless bird very adaptable on land<br>Almost all over the world it is invariably found<br>Except in South America, Antarctica and New Zealand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is of average size—in color—grey and black<br>And abounds, teems and thrives in many numbers<br>Where other birds' survival is considerably slack<br>As it is the most intelligent of its bird family members.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Ravens, Magpies, Rooks, the Black-birds<br>And the Jays—all belong to the family of the crow<br>They are all hunting migratory birds<br>Who forage together like the crow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It has shining black feathers, is clever and curious<br>It is omnivorous and the diet is very diverse<br>It eats grains, rodents, insects and is mischievous<br>And swoops down to grasp things from man's source.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It roosts in large trees high up<br>Each mating pair has its own nest<br>Which usually takes one to two weeks to build up<br>Gathering leaves, feathers, sticks and twigs best.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Baby crows stay in the nest<br>For up to two months before leaving<br>The mother crow guards them with zest<br>And the father crow feeds the family striving.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The young are flesh-colored and born blind<br> Their eyes open for the first time after five days<br>The young ones- the family together mind<br>The elder fledglings tend to help in their own ways.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Hinduism it is customary to offer food<br>To the crow before taking the meal<br>And it is supposed during ‘Shraddha ‘expired ones would<br>Take food and offerings through the crow's feel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The crow often lives together in large families<br>An assembly of crows called a ‘flock of murder'<br>Forge together and defend their territories<br>Even high up in the air and down under.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It caws and calls the other crows to its station<br>To take part of the food that is found<br>It shows signs of planning communication<br>Which man must consider and himself bound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bird's propensity to raid crops of grain bead<br>And storing tidbits in trees and crevices in bark<br>Is the reason ‘Scare crows' are put up to mislead<br>The crows flock of flights on the crops to embark.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many crows are surprisingly monogamous<br>They mate for life and are throughout a pair<br>The crow belongs to the species Corvus<br>And up to twenty years it may live with care.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Chandra+Thiagarajan">Chandra Thiagarajan</a><div class=q>
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Is a harmless bird very adaptable on land
Almost all over the world it is invariably found
Except in South America, Antarctica and New Zealand.

It is of average size—in color—grey..."></div>
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