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Here’s another summer memory – a photo of a hooded crow. His or her feathers look a bit funny because they are wet. The crow had probably just taken a bath.
This type of crow is very common here, and people don’t pay much attention to it, but it turns out that it has a particular significance in certain cultures. In the Scottish highlands and Ireland, the hooded crow is associated with fairies.
In Faroese folklore, young women who were not married would go out on Candlemas morn and throw a stone, then a bone, then a clump of turf at a hooded crow – if the bird flew over the sea, her husband would be a foreigner; if it landed on a farm or house, she would marry a man from there, but if it stayed put, she would remain unmarried.
It is also one of the 37 birds depicted in the Bird Room of the Royal Palace in Oslo.
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Are there hooded crows in your area?
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Yes
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No
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Not sure
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I find them cute too.
It happens sometimes, haha
I do not think I have ever seen a crow in my village. I do not know. Crows are beautiful, they are very artistic, they look good. Are not black crows a bad omen????
Many carnivorous birds are traditionally considered a bad omen, but I don’t pay attention to such believes. Crows are very intelligent birds.
Great shot. We have black crows ourselves. I’ve never seen these crows.
We have them both here, but we don’t see the black ones as often.
i love the naming of birds! this one looks like a hood on a crow!!!
I have been wondering why it’s called like that in English for a long time, I think I finally see it.
do you like Mark Twain the american comedy writer>?
I used to when I was younger, but I haven’t re-read him in a long time.
he wrote a short story called “Adam and Eve” that was all about how all the plants and animals in the world got their names!
What a wonderful photo I love the look of that crow. I have never heard of one of these crows before
They are very common here, sometimes noisy.
I am quite fascinated with crows. They are the most intelligent.
They are very smart indeed!
We have such birds in the area. They are very smart birds!
They are very smart indeed!
We also have a lot of crows living here …. probably one of them, but I’m not sure
Most probably you have them in your area.
They are probably true because there are many
Never seen this one before, I looked it up and it is a Eurasian bird. Great photo.
That’s true, I should have included a bit more information about the bird. Thank you!