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the sound of a bird that holds grudges and remembers your face for years
means The harsh, croaking cry of a crow, raven, rook, or similar bird.
from An imitative word — English simply tried to spell out the rough racket a crow makes, the same way 'moo' and 'baa' copy the animals that utter them. Such echoic coinages crop up across many languages independently, since everyone hearing a crow reaches for the same scraping consonants. English has used 'caw' in this onomatopoeic sense since at least the 16th century.
- face memory
- Crows recognize and recall human faces for years
- warning system
- A single caw can alert an entire flock
- dialects
- Crow calls vary by region like accents
- funerals
- Crows gather and caw around their dead
- toolmaker
- Cawing corvids craft and use hooked tools
for instance
american crow — corvus brachyrhynchos, makes distinctive caw calls across north america
carrion crow — corvus corone, european species known for loud cawing in uk and continental europe