Ave Bestiary
of Crow Indicies
(Latin) Corvus
(Family) Corvidae (Crow Family)
In the European Folk or White Cultures including Anglo and Celt, they are also known/referred to as;
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(French) - Corneille
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(Irish Gaelic) - Préachán (Mas) Caróg (Fem) Caróg liath (Hooded Crow) |
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and culture of Europe for Ethnic Europeans/English, at the end of this page.
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Crow Varietys
(Currently ovrt 30 species at the moment)
(Currently ovrt 30 species at the moment)
Chicks
Health and Care
Aging
Diet
Feathers and Grooming
In my Magickal Wyrdcraft and Druidry practice
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Related History and Etimology
Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers. In common English, they are known as the crow family, or, more technically, corvids. Over 120 species are described.
The genus Corvus, including the jackdaws, crows, rooks, and ravens, makes up over a third of the entire family. Corvids are the largest passerines. Crow (n.) general common name of birds of the genus Corvus (the larger sort being sometimes called ravens), Old English crawe, which is held to be imitative of the bird's cry. Compare Old Saxon kraia, Dutch kraai, Old High German chraja, German Kräke. Noted for sagacity and sociability. The British and North American species are very similar. Corbel (n.) "piece of stone, wood, etc., projecting from the vertical face of a wall to support some object," mid-14c., from Old French corbel, diminutive of corb "raven," from Latin corvus (see corvine); so called from its beaked shape. Corbel-step is attested from 1819. Corvine (adj.) "pertaining to or having the character of crows and ravens," 1650s, from Latin corvinus "of or pertaining to the raven," from corvus "a raven," related to corax (Greek korax), all imitative of its harsh sound (see raven (n.)). According to fable, originally white but changed to black as a punishment for treachery, but the bird also was consecrated to Apollo for its supposed power of prophecy. |
Raven (n.)
Old English hræfn (Mercian), hrefn; hræfn (Northumbrian, West Saxon), from Proto-Germanic *khrabanaz (source also of Old Norse hrafn, Danish ravn, Dutch raaf, Old High German hraban, German Rabe "raven," Old English hroc "rook"), from PIE root *ker, imitative of harsh sounds (source also of Latin crepare "to creak, clatter," cornix "crow," corvus "raven;" Greek korax "raven," korōnē "crow;" Old Church Slavonic kruku "raven;" Lithuanian krauklys "crow"). Raven mythology shows considerable homogeneity throughout the whole area [northern regions of the northern hemisphere] in spite of differences in detail. The Raven peeps forth from the mists of time and the thickets of mythology, as a bird of slaughter, a storm bird, a sun and fire bird, a messenger, an oracular figure and a craftsman or culture hero. [Edward A. Armstrong, "The Folklore of Birds," 1958] Old English also used hræmn, hremm. The raven standard was the flag of the Danish Vikings. The vikings, were said to have used the raven to discover land. "When uncertain of their course they let one loose, and steered the vessel in his track, deeming that the land lay in the direction of his flight; if he returned to the ship, it was supposed to be at a distance" [Charles Swainson, "The Folk Lore and Provincial Names of British Birds," London, 1886]. Elford Leach (Top Right) Born at Hoe Gate, Plymouth, the son of anattorney. At the age of twelve he began a medical apprenticeshipat the Devonshire and Exeter Hospital, studying anatomy and chemistry. By this time he was already collecting marine animalsfrom Plymouth Sound and along the Devonn coast. At seventeen hebegan studying medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London,finishing his training at the University of Edinburgh beforegraduating MD from the University of St Andrews (where he hadnever studied). |
Continued... From 1813 Leach concentrated on his zoological interests and wasemployed as an 'Assistant Librarian' in the Natural History Department
of the BritishMuseum , where he had responsibility for the zoological collections. Here he threw himself into thetask of reorganising and modernising these collections, many of which had been neglected since HansSloane left them to the nation. In 1815, he published the first bibliography of entomology in Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopedia. He also worked and published onother invertebrates, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds. Carl Linnaeus
(23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778) Also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy" Many of his writings were in Latin, and his name is rendered in Latin as Carolus Linnæus (after 1761 Carolus a Linné). Linnaeus has been called Princeps botanicorum (Prince of Botanists) and "The Pliny of the North". He is also considered as one of the founders of modern ecology |
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