#jackdaw in japan

[corvid-language-library]

Observations about Japanese children and their English handwriting

Even the older kids who've been learning for years still mix up b and d (which makes me feel better about messing up さ and ち)

The younger ones also confuse n/u and m/w a lot (the older kids too on occasion)

They frequently write r to look like n or even h

I see backwards Ss a lot, which I'm pretty sure is also common in kids whose native language uses Latin alphabet

Despite their writing notebooks clearly showing that 'o' is written starting at the top, almost every kid starts at the bottom and I have no idea why

I also frequently see them write 'b' as a backwards c and then add the vertical line afterwards for reasons I'm yet to uncover

Because Japanese allows you to split single words across two lines, most kids under 10 will just continue words on a new line if they run out of space

They also typically need to be reminded that English words need space between them

Many of them write the dot of the i/j and cross of the t/f before the rest of the letter, probably because kanji stroke order rules are typically top-to-bottom and horizontal strokes first

#jackdaw in japan #treepie teacher time

[beardedmrbean]

You taking 22 hours to answer that anon is fine. Hell I would be fine if it took 10 years as you had a family matter to attend to

Now another black thing https://x.com/monstereagle91/status/1782124996111847729?s=46

Okay let me use my assassin Yasuke ideas vs the usual modern black characters are written

Actually it came from early access games when they did colonial thus slavery. In ac black flag your first quartermaster is a runaway slave turn pirate named Adewale who you meet when before you escape the doomed treasure fleet

Oh yeah the ship in the game is supposed to be the theorize ship that escape the storm.

Now Adewale enjoyed the pirate life, but as stated that he never had the same joy as the other golden age pirates and during the story he does stumble upon the assassins and templar because of his captain Edward did as well….well more because he stumbled upon a traitorous master assassin and accidentally gave away the West Indies brotherhood bases.

Ugh sorry adhd. But Edward and Adewale had a fallout, Edward eventually stop his foolish chase to become rich after most of his pirates friends did and properly join the brotherhood like Adewale did.

Now there are standalone dlc called freedom cry where Adewale ends up on Saint Domingo and oh boy they NO problem showing the cruelty of slavery as much they could in a 2013 game even in the database. But there was no Templars involved in the running colony. As that did not matter for freedom cry story show that the assassin brotherhood main cause is to fight for the freedom for all humans.

So yes Adwale played the seeds of the Haitian revolution. Though it was established in the psp game ac liberation that the Saint Domingo assassins were radical and François Mackandal was a extremist that took a twisted view on the brotherhood which lead to the 1751 port au prince earthquake

Sorry for the set up, earlier in the game Edward asked Adewale if there was any place he wanted to go back to. Because at the end of the day Edward was to have enough wealth to tell his father in law to piss off.

Who he later learned was a Templar who let his daughter/Edward first wife die from a fever. No wonder Eddy took care of him after going back to Britain

Ah, I feel like I’m a Tolkien lore detour. But Adewale mention he had no place to go back to and the jackdaw for the time being was his home.

Now to Yasuke, it stated that the devs did change his past a bit. Where he was the only survivor on a slave ship where everyone, including his lover, was killed. And in he eventually ends up under Oda and began a samurai apprenticeship

Iirc, he did have his own house and had a servant. So I think it very likely he would have become the first foreign samurai if not for the hojo incident

What I have a nunace approach with him.

But given he was in Japan for 3 years prior to him disappearing from records. I think they are going with a “foreigner who want to protect his new home” as the basic for his desire to unify Japan in red story.

Also him being an unknown factor to the Templars, as Akechi told then to send Yasuke to goa India, for a bit.

And ac like to do parallels, so it very likely the Japanese brotherhood will be fractured just like how Japan went back to civil war and it up naeo and Yasuke busy rebuilt it

But if I was a head writer on red, I wouldn’t Yasuke as a black ™️ character. I would writer an immigrant who want to protect his new home. Of course I would tackle the whole no ganjin law the Tokugawa set up (though I have a HUGE hunch William Adam is going to join or be ally of the brotherhood to go between Japan and other countries)

But I using universal themes, like coming from nowhere, adapting to a new place. Calling it your new home

The issues when modern black ™️ characters is that activists presume that no one else had slavery ancestry, being oppressed or fucked over by the government

I mean just about everyone did, but no one cling onto the past. Or lionizing their og oppressors or what black Americans did why the Dahomey because they have the same skintone

Wait I heard Indians did with the Mughals….but they been fighting against the lionization the Mughals recently

Sorry I just point out how modern writers treat black people like aliens vs humans

I know you're good I still like to be prompt if I can, had to pop out real quick last night so this one is delayed too now, lol.

ya this is gonna confuse people.

story starting Oh yeah the ship in the game is supposed to be the theorize ship that escape the storm.

Kinda how it worked IRL for William Addams

Now Adewale enjoyed the pirate life, but as stated that he never had the same joy as the other golden age pirates and during the story he does stumble upon the assassins and templar because of his captain Edward did as well….well more because he stumbled upon a traitorous master assassin and accidentally gave away the West Indies brotherhood bases.

Oopsie

Ugh sorry adhd. But Edward and Adewale had a fallout, Edward eventually stop his foolish chase to become rich after most of his pirates friends did and properly join the brotherhood like Adewale did.

FMA time, hopefully without Nina and Alexander this time

So yes Adwale played the seeds of the Haitian revolution. Though it was established in the psp game ac liberation that the Saint Domingo assassins were radical and François Mackandal was a extremist that took a twisted view on the brotherhood which lead to the 1751 port au prince earthquake

I need to not do this tired because I saw "François Mackandal" and I was gonna say there's something fishy about him because I thought his last name was Mackerel

Sorry for the set up, earlier in the game Edward asked Adewale if there was any place he wanted to go back to. Because at the end of the day Edward was to have enough wealth to tell his father in law to piss off.

That does not say "Alphonse" I'm dumb, dyslexia and tired reading don't mix so I'll do the rest in the morning, but leave all that so everyone can have a hearty laugh.

But given he was in Japan for 3 years prior to him disappearing from records. I think they are going with a “foreigner who want to protect his new home” as the basic for his desire to unify Japan in red story. Also him being an unknown factor to the Templars, as Akechi told then to send Yasuke to goa India, for a bit. And ac like to do parallels, so it very likely the Japanese brotherhood will be fractured just like how Japan went back to civil war and it up naeo and Yasuke busy rebuilt it

I like this and the stuff before too, nice thing about historical fiction, even with real people, is you can fiddle with details.

But if I was a head writer on red, I wouldn’t Yasuke as a black ™️ character. I would writer an immigrant who want to protect his new home. Of course I would tackle the whole no ganjin law the Tokugawa set up (though I have a HUGE hunch William Adam is going to join or be ally of the brotherhood to go between Japan and other countries) But I using universal themes, like coming from nowhere, adapting to a new place. Calling it your new home

I could see people getting ticked off if he's not tokenized, lot of anti-racists get mad if you don't play to stereotypes for some reason.

The issues when modern black ™️ characters is that activists presume that no one else had slavery ancestry, being oppressed or fucked over by the government I mean just about everyone did, but no one cling onto the past. Or lionizing their og oppressors or what black Americans did why the Dahomey because they have the same skintone Wait I heard Indians did with the Mughals….but they been fighting against the lionization the Mughals recently

Ya pretty much everyone did in one form or another, slavery is a pretty solid historical thing right up till the 1800's when some people decided that should stop.

Sorry I just point out how modern writers treat black people like aliens vs humans

Part of that is concern over being "canceled" for writing just the wrong thing, which is one of the big reasons it's all gotten to where it is now.

And the audience is also berated if they opt to not consume something because the only reason could be that they're racist.

Racism is killing creativity, but not the kind of racism people want to talk about.

#zoomer huey anon

[drzewobojczyni]

You know how some corvids* use cars as really big, unnecessarily dangerous nutcrackers?

*documented in carrion crows living in Japan, but if you consider “Dude, trust me” a valid source, I saw rooks and jackdaws do this as well.

DeviantArt

#artists on tumblr #traditional comic #corvus frugilegus #corvids #walnut ink #traditional art #original art #original comic #shit by me

[scarefox]

The sound of cicadas and jackdaws in japanese movies and series is such a specific and chill japan vibe. I love that.

#that one time I was in japan and heard their daws cawing was damn surreal #we don't have this kind here #for japanese people it's surely nothing special #but if you only hear those sounds through media it's different

[pkmn-lillie]

oh fuck i should talk abot Rei and his flock of birds (family) theyre all Corvidae btw. had a lot of fun picking corvids that are or could be in Japan.

(I will preface that this is a semi-supernatural setting so these birds are Smart like People. it takes a village to raise a child, or in this case 13 birds)

- Poppet (F) Rook

- Wire (F) Rook

- Cloth (F) Rook

- Effigy (Fig) (M) Carrion Crow

- Tempest (F) Carrion Crow

- Elytra (M) Carrion Crow

- Parley (F) Jungle Crow

- Ghost (M) albino Jungle Crow

- Orb (M) Jungle Crow

- Polaroid (M) Common Raven

- Rat (F) Common Raven

- Marble (M) Daurian Jackdaw

- Coin (F) Oriental Magpie

Rat is the one who is the most patient around other people, so is most often with Rei when in public. will gladly accept pets and skritches even from strangers.

Coin and Marble are pranksters. when they get bored they WILL steal anything shiny that isn't bolted down or attached to a human. Rei has a bunch of fidget toys on hand for them.

Ghost acts like he's a prince. turns up his nose at anyone besides Rei. gaining his approval requires many, many hours of scrutiny.

Poppet, Wire, and Cloth are the eyes in the sky. always keeping an eye out for weird happenings

ok its bedtime i may or may not continue this post. tl;dr local preteen has been raised by birds

#oc: rei

[fenneykindlefire]

My Countryballs Animals

Poland- Hedgehog Germany- German Shepard Russia- Bear USA- Bald Eagle Argentina- Pampas Cat China- Giant Panda North Korea- Siberian Musk Deer South Korea- Korean Water Deer Japan- Japanese Bobtail Cat Australia- Kangaroo Mexico- Xoloitzcuintli Vietnam- Clouded Leopard Finland- Wolverine Estonia- European Lynx France- Rooster Ukraine- Nightingale Canada- Beaver UK- European Badger Scotland- Scottish Terrier Sweden- Eurasian Elk Brazil- Brazilian Tapir Chile- Pudu Philippines- Philippine Tarsier Indonesia- Komodo Dragon Netherlands- Stoat Jamaica- Tree Frog Venezuela- Venezuelan Troupial Ecuador- Peccary Colombia - Harpy Eagle Mongolia- Bactrian Camel Nepal- Crocodile New Zealand- Kiwi Bird Puerto Rico- Puerto Rican Woodpecker Norway- Norwegian Forest Cat England- European Rabbit Egypt- Jackal Israel- Hoopoe Peru- Vicuña Thailand- Asian Elephant Greece- Chamois Taiwan- Red Panda (even though they aren't native to Taiwan) Spain- Bull Wales- Red Kite Syria- Syrian Wildcat Romania- Long-Eared Bat Italy- Italian Wolf Switzerland- Alpine Ibex Greenland- Polar Bear Antarctica- Penguin Iceland- Arctic Fox Bolivia- Chinchilla Austria- Mountain Jackdaw Hungary- Partridge India- Tiger Pakistan- Snow Leopard Honduras- White-Tailed Deer Guinea- Guinea Pig (even though they aren't native to Guinea) Guinea Bissau- African Palm Civet New Guinea- Tree Kangaroo Myanmar/Burma- Burmese Python Iran- Persian Cat Ireland- Irish Setter

#countryballs #polandball

[sugiichi]

Corvus dauuricus [コクマルガラス,Daurian jackdaw]

Corvus frugilegus [ミヤマガラス,Rook]

数年ぶりに、 淡色型のコクマルガラスに会えましたヽ(*^^*)ノ

1枚目の中央付近にいる白黒の子です。

ミヤマガラスの群れに混じっていましたが、全く近寄れず…(^^;;

黒色型はすぐ近くで撮れたんですけどね～～(=^_^=)

#photographers on tumblr #Corvus dauuricus #コクマルガラス #Daurian jackdaw #Corvus frugilegus #ミヤマガラス #Rook #野鳥 #鳥 #Bird #Birds #Japan #birdwatching

[bastardtrait]

look who came by for a surprise visit! a very odd combination of Jackdaw and Jayson.

Raven: so, my least favourite sibling and my brother-in-law who I have spoken to a total of once. how was the flight to Japan?

Jackdaw/Jayson: pretty good.

#sims 4 #simblr #nova legacy #nlgen3 #raven nova #delilah nova #june rodrigo #jackdaw nova #jayson peters

[thecabaggewoman]

Mha fic rec #5 Special villain deku

We all Fall Down by KitKateC

There wasn’t much to say. On a hot summer night, underneath a bridge in Hosu, twelve-year-old, quirkless Midoriya Izuku disappeared. Though tragic, it wasn’t anything that the public paid attention to for long. He had no friends to speak of, no teachers who felt a particular attachment to the child. Midoriya Izuku disappeared without a trace, leaving only a grieving mother behind. And the world moved on.

Three years later a new villain makes himself known to Japan. He is Ambush: a violent and clever character with no name and no story -- only a burning desire to bring Japan to its knees. In the shadows a threat manifests, and more and more important figures are found cut to ribbons or burned to near-unrecognizable crisps. A storm is brewing in the dark alleys and back streets of Japan, and when the clouds break and the rain comes crashing down, Ambush will wash all of hero society away in the floodwater. 50/50 chapters. Has a sequel complete in 13 chapters. Tododeku with a lot of angst but happy ending

Mirror World by Azurith

A desperate attempt to save one world, may have doomed another. The villains known as Akumu and Backdraft are thrust across time and space, to a world very different than their own. A world where they're known as Heroes. Izuku Midoriya and Shouto Todoroki won't let this travesty stand. They'll dismantle this world just as they had their own, with a smile on their face. Or: Villain Deku and Todoroki are brought by a mysterious quirk to the world in which their Hero counterparts reside. Showing what the difference in your life key moments and decisions can make. Tags will be added as needed.

47 published with (almost) daily update. Tododeku and Kiribaku

Grandmaster of Miscalculation by silver jackdaw (cizzi)

There were many things in Izuku's life that had created the insecurities he kept inside: the years of bullying, his father's last harsh words to him, the guilt he felt over All Might's retirement, the scorn of the man's former sidekick that Izuku was working for. It was a mixture of things that eventually led to his own downfall and let the good doctor get into his head. Izuku Midoriya never makes it to his internship one morning. Nighteye brushes it off, thinking he's chickened out of coming to work, until he gets a worried call from the boy's mother saying he never came home. And then Mirio receives a package with a pill inside. Izuku Midoriya disappears and One For All is passed on. Mirai only truly realizes the grave miscalculation he's made when he sees Toshinori buckled over, crying for his boy, a boy who was so much more than just his successor. Their grief is shattered with the realization that Izuku Midoriya is not only alive and not well, but a villain; one that is rather comfortable where he is, because the League of Villains seems rather attached to him. (Izuku's descent into villainy, his crawl up into vigilantism, and his eventual push back into being a true hero.)

13 chapters. Hasn't been updated since years but that's really great s please go read it.

1/2/3 special Shigaraki/4

#fic rec #bnha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #mha #dabi #tomura shigaraki #shigaraki tomura #izuku midoriya #class 1a #villain deku #deku #villain izuku midoriya #tododeku #kiribaku #bakugo katsuki #kirishima eijiro #shoto todoroki #villain todoroki shoto #todoroki shouto #all for one #All might #bnha deku #Himiko Toga #Twice #bnha Twice #mha Twice #katsuki bakugo #league of villains #my post

[nippon-com]

In ancient times, karasu, the crows and ravens of Japan, were not maligned as garbage-strewing pests, but revered as messengers of the gods and bringers of good fortune. In Japanese mythology, the three-legged Yatagarasu guided legendary first emperor Jinmu, and many Shintō shrines still hold obisha matsuri around the lunar New Year in which parishioners pray to an archery target  bearing the image of karasu.

The Japanese language lumps five distinct species of corvids together under the term karasu, the most common of these being the hashiboso garasu (”narrow-beaked crow”) and hashibuto garasu (”broad-beaked crow”). The migratory miyama garasu (rook), kokumaru garasu (jackdaw), and watari garasu (northern raven) are less dispersed, but can be spotted in some areas during certain times of the year.

The Clever “Karasu”: Wise Old Birds Living Side by Side with Humans

#caw caw caw

[leatherbookmarking]

pointless bird-related infodump ドンマイドンマイ

i was akways wondering whether the black corvids eating from the trash heaps/ripping the trash bags open in tokyo and other japanese cities are crows or ravens, because i’ve seen both names used. and then i actually looked it up! and found out that our common raven doesn’t really inhabit japan. its japanese name is watarigarasu, passing/migrating raven, and if anything, he can be seen in hokkaido (north of japan) but that’s it. instead, the crows that can be found (oh, they can be found) in japan are the carrion crow and the thick-billed crow, and i love that their japanese names are respectively thin-billed crow and thick-billed crow. MAKES SENSE. anyway, since the thick-billed crow’s beak is MASSIVE and it’s only a bit smaller than an actual raven (compare body length of 57 cm to a raven’s 60; a carrion crow’s body length is around 45-50cm), it’s not a surprise that people would mistake them for ravens.

that, and also the fact that both have “karasu” in their name. big + black + caw caw = fuck, that’s one dude. which is kind of hmmm-inducing, since the japanese wiki lists “karasu” as a some sort of... group, aside from the corvidae family (which in japanese is karasu-ka). which is different from karasu-zoku (corvus). so if you have a common raven, corvus corax, it’s in the corvidae family (karasu-ka) and the corvus genus (karasu-zoku), but aside from that, it is also amongst karasu, which is 階級なし (technically not a rank as we consider it). basically, it seems to be crows + friends, although the species with “karasu” in their name include choughs (pyrrhocorax), stresemann’s bushcrow (zavattarniornis), ground jays (podoces), nutcrackers (nucifraga) and jackdaws (coloeus).

eurasian magpies, despite being from the kasasagi family and being called kasasagi in japanese, are honorary karasu because they can be also called kachigarasu -- because the noise they make is kachikachikachi, but ALSO it’s spelled with the kanji 勝 which means to win. fuck yea girls -- or kouraigarasu, or korean/goryeo crow, because magpies are a common symbol of korean identity, i think. but it has to be said that a korean/oriental magpie, pica serica, isn’t the same as pica pica; they’re slightly larger and stockier than our magpies apparently. but i mean, (gestures at the karasituation).

but also, the korean name for magpie is also 까치 kkachi. cute.

anyway, because of their trash-eating tendencies as well as dominating the territories and kindasorta scaring away other birds AS WELL as their sheer fucking Presence (there is. so many of them), crows are considered a fuckening pest in japan. still, i’d love to see them in japan!! they must look cool.

#shut up shrimp

[corvid-language-library]

This week I got to educate my Japanese colleagues about pancake day and also introduce them to toblerones and I think I blew their minds

#jackdaw in japan #they gave me chocolate on valentine's day bc apparently you do that with your friends here #and i was like ffff i have no chocolate #so the next day i brought in the giant bag of toblerone pieces i got from duty free in london #idk why but it didn't occur to me there are ppl who've never had toblerone #but like ofc they hadn't! why would they have even seen a toblerone before?! #anyway they were delighted #and then i told them about pancake day and they had so many questions and were fascinated by the concept! #having the opportunity to share my culture with people who are actually interested is so cool honestly!

[tracle0]

hey hello hi SO here's the deal I legit adore all your bird facts and your tag rambles n whenever I see them I'm like "!!!!!!" so I wanted to ask you a Bird Question so I get to hear more rambles but I don't know enough about birds to ask anything that sounds smart SO if this is not a weird request maybe could I please have some words about... 1) a Weird Bird, 2) a Cool Bird and 3) a bird you would most like to be bros with. sorry if this is a super weird ask ahaha ok cya later have a good day

HI HELLO you actually read those??? omg that very much makes me v happy to hear I just like to throw up knowledge into the tags and then assume no-one is gonna ever observe it. 

Wowza. Secret fan right here :D

Okay okay birds. Biiiirds. I gotchya man. Lots of my college project has been looking into birds. I know birds. 

However, I do live in England where there aren’t many weird birds. Our birds are kinda tame. I guess the tiny birds are kinda weird. I’ll give you some tiny bird facts. 

European robins are very shy little birds, very wary and cautious around people in most of Europe. Here is one of them;

Little fat lad. In most of Europe, v shy. However! In England, they are super bold. Very daring. Very commonly seen in gardens and allotments, waiting for gardeners to finish digging at a patch to go rummaging for bugs and other things they can eat. This is because in England, it’s considered bad luck to kill robins (don’t ask why I couldn’t find out) so they’re v safe here. 

They were called Robin Red Breast for a while, due to... red. Postmen in Victorian England also wore red around winter time, as part of their uniform, so a popular nickname for postmen in winter was Robin Red Breast. It became a sign of Christmas coming, hence why robins are so strongly associated with Christmas despite being year-round visitors. The last bit of their name was dropped but the sentiment remains. 

Other small bird facts; Goldfinches! V pretty birds. Here’s a picture

Wow look at that bird, so pretty! So, the deal with goldfinches was that they have super sweet song. I can hear one outside right now, actually, v tuneful, v recognisable songbirds. As a result, for a lot of history, goldfinches have been caught to keep as cage birds, to sing away and make rich lords and ladies houses sound nice. Rude practise. 

People think their population has been declining and blame the magpie. You’re Australian so maybe you’re like ‘reeee magpie’ (although my brain is telling me you don’t hate them and think they’re bros correct me if I’m wrong) but here magpies are mostly disliked because of their habit of taking from nests - a behaviour common to many corvids (more on that later). However! There have been lots of studies into this, and it was found that areas with higher magpie populations had no correlation to the number of songbird deaths in the area. Almost like... industrialisation and farming are driving them out of their area. 

These are long rambles. There are two info-splurges on tiny birds. Let’s move on to a cool bird, the swift! The common swift. Just to be clear.

I fucking adore swifts. Every year I wait eagerly for May to roll around so they return to England again. They are delightful birds, even if their screams are a bit unnerving. In Medieval times, people used to think their screams were the screams of damned souls in hell, and that when swifts vanished during the winter, they were buried in the mud to sleep, a belief held due to their nest-building habits of dried mud being the main item used to build nests.

Swifts barely ever land!! The only exception to this is to feed their chicks. When they’re little chicks, they do press-ups with their wings to build up wing muscles, Once they leave the nest, they keep flying for most of their life, only stopping when THEY have chicks!!! They eat, sleep and mate on the wing!!! Wild man!! 

As said before in the tags that I think you read, they rarely fly in the rain when in England/Europe - they fly to eat the bugs, and the bugs hide when it rains, so they just.... fly around the storm. They’re the only bird to actually do this. Unrelated but also neat, they’re one of the oldest species of birds, and whilst they look like swallows and house martins, they’re most closesly related to the hummingbird!!!

Swifts have the fastest level flying speed of 69mph. This means that it has the fastest speed it achieves by itself - the fastest bird of all is the peregrine falcon with its dive breaking speeds of 240mph!! That’s wild. They also keep flying for the longest, as said, and fly the furthest, from Africa to Europe and back again every year. One swift was recorded flying 4 million miles in its life - the same as travelling to the moon and back 8 times!!! Crazy. Insane. I love swifts. 

Bird I would most like to be bros with is the crow 100% because. Hello. Have we met. I love crows. Carrion crows, because they’re the crow we have here the most. 

There they are!!! V pretty. I love them. So much. 

So! Carrion crows often get a bad wrap for a variety of reasons, mostly history based, which is what I was actually exploring in the funky crow comic I’ve been doing for college work. I will say I blame Christianity and Alfred Fucking Hitchcock for their demonisation the most. They’re actually bros, being able to recognise human faces, reward those who are nice to it and punish those who are cruel. They can also tell other crows which humans are good and bad.

As said previously, a lot of corvids attack nests and eat eggs or young of other birds. I can’t defend this much - it’s what corvids do. Hell, the local crow in our area recently attacked the jackdaw nest across the road. It happens. C’est la vie. They do this because they’re scavengers, opportunistic, eating anything and everything they can, which is most likely how they’ve adapted so well to the huge industrial boom and in so many different places around the world!

In Japan, the Kanji for ‘crow’ is the same as the Kanji for ‘bird’, except the bit that symbolises the eye is removed. This is because crows, being all black with beady black eyes, look like they don’t have eyes from a distance. I learnt that from Persona 5. 

Their brains are huge!! Smart boyos!!! Hell, in terms of brain to body mass, their brains are bigger than apes!!! They’re insanely good at problem solving, with wild crows who were kept in captivity for short periods for testing being able to solve multi-step problems (some problems being 8 steps long!) for food!!! They’ve also been seen playing around with each other and the environment, something that had only been seen in apes and other high-intelligence and social creatures. They recognise their reflection. They have been observed making tools in the wild. They are very smart. 

Crows have really interesting routines and behaviours they follow regarding death - when finding a dead crow, they sound the alarm, and all swarm around the body, working together to try and figure out how it died and if it’s a threat to all of them. Sometimes they lay things on the dead crow, which some believe is similar to burying. If you’re interested in this, Kaeli Swift is a good name to look into - she specialises in corvid behaviour. 

My head is now going blank with crow facts but I think there are more. Support your local corvid nerd. Support your local bird nerd! Didn’t know I had so many facts rattling in my head. 

This uhhhh got long. If you got to the end, thumbs up 10/10 appreciate. Hope you have a top tier day :D

#albatris #bird facts #crow #robin #goldfinch #swift #'hey trade you like birds please ramble about birds' #no-one has ever asked me that it was an HONOUR #wish we had more weird and quirky birds in england tbh #here's a bonus fun fact #the area I live in has the highest population of barn owls around #and also a lot of just cool birds #so a lot of bird watchers come here to watch birds #my grandad is 99% the reason I probably like birds so much he's a big bird watcher #the other percentage of blame goes to andy who is 100% the reason I love crows so much #'hmmm this ominous character needs ominous symbolism - oh I know! crows!' #that's how it alllllll started

[ainawgsd]

The Daurian jackdaw (Coloeus dauuricus) is a bird in the crow family, Corvidae. It is closely related to the western jackdaw. The name derives from the Dauria region of eastern Russia. It is a sociable species often found in association with rooks.

It is about the same size as or slightly smaller (12.5 inches in length) than the western jackdaw, with the same proportions and identical habits. The principal difference lies in the plumage; many but not all adults have large areas of creamy white on the lower parts extending up around the neck as a broad collar. The head, throat, wings, and tail are glossy black and the ear coverts are grizzled grey. Darker adults and young birds resemble western jackdaws, though Daurian jackdaws have black irises, unlike the distinctive grey-white irises of the Eurasian jackdaw. The only other pied corvid species inhabiting the same region is the Chinese collared crow but as this is a much larger bird confusion is unlikely to occur.

The Daurian jackdaw ranges from the southern part of eastern Siberia, south to Mongolia and throughout much of China. In the north of its range it migrates further south during the winter. It is a scarce winter visitor to Korea, a rare annual winter visitor to Japan, and a vagrant to Taiwan. There are a few records from Western Europe. It inhabits open woodland, river valleys, and open hills and mountains.

The species will nest in trees where suitable cavities cannot be found, though tree hollows, rock openings and ruined buildings are still favored. The food is similar to that of the western jackdaw and includes cultivated grains, insects, berries, eggs, carrion, and feces.

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28/4/2020

The next era I’m going to uterlise in my animation is the Celtic era, which had crows originlly seen as quite intelligent, merciful and useful birds - acting as allies to fallen souls and messengers for the gods. However, after the Christian takeover and altering of culture, they were twisted into being evil, servants of the devil and omens of death and bad luck. I think using this will be a good way to transition from olden ideology to the Christian take-over in the middle ages. 

After that, I started looking into Christianity, which I think I’ll represent through stained glass windows - I’m not going to make an entire stained glass window, but I will try and draw something that uterlises that style a lot. I think it’ll look really cool!

I also discovered that Japan has a lot of crow symbolism that date back to before Greek times, and assosiate the crow with the sun, which is a very, very useful piece of infomation - it’s an ideal transition from the start to Greek times. 

I am toying with the idea of representing other cultures in this animation - Native American folklore has really interesting symbolism with crows, as does Islam and Judaism. The main issue with doing these would be that I am not part of these cultures; I could either do extensive research, ensuring my sources align properly and are only from people who are from these cultures, or I could leave it, sticking primarily to cultures I am more aware of, or cultures that aren’t around as much anymore. 

On one hand - adding other cultures would give way for more content, which would be a great way to split up the HUGE bulk of ‘crow is evil’ in the Middle Ages. But again, I’m worried about mis-representing these cultures. I think for now, the best course of action would be to research it, see what I find out, get in contact with people who are part of these cultures for their opinoin (as part of a focus group) and then see how I feel. These are a lot of art style to incorporate as well. I may also consider which stories fit well with the flow that I currently have. 

In real-life bird news, the jackdaw nest across the street was attacked by a crow today. I’m not sure what damage has been done, but they were swooping it (four jackdaws at once!) and it was in the chimney pot where their nest was, so I’m worried it’s eaten their eggs. The same thing happened last year with the magpie pair around here. I can only hope for the best at this point, and keep an eye on the nest. 

Here are the jackdaws swooping at the intruder, after it’s gotten out of the chimney and has perched on the antenner instead.

Crows are distinct from jackdaws in a number of ways - pure black, rather than silvery around the head, bigger, often solitary and with brown eyes rather than light grey. Another distinct difference is the way they fly - jackdaws are often more sporaddic in their wing movements, almost frantic, but crows are very measured and methodical witht heir flaps. 

Either way, look at those wings. Wow. 

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What you said made me imagine a newborn Jackdaw being protected by big brother Ishtal. It's just too CUTE! (Little kids are my weakness...) I see that you've reblogged a post with pictures of a lolita coord (short for coordinate) from me. I'm super into that style of fashion from Japan. There's so many types of lolitas! Ranging from sweet to military to pirate and anything in-between. Using the Tumblr search function won't yield any results though. (Google it.) I hope you don't mind my rambling.

I know right? I always picture a little muppet crow baby just nesting in Ishtals tail who likes to bite anyone who comes too close to his baby brother with ill intent.And yus! I enjoy seeing Lolita style clothing. It gives me a lot of inspiration, especially steampunk styles. And I just think it looks so pretty and aesthetically pleasing. If I had the body confidence and the money (and room being the main issue), I would love to put together my own coord one day. Plus that one I reblogged went straight in to my Avi tag because reasons. >.>'