First; the inevatable;
How did I get a crow skull?
No, I did not find it.
I have a huge garden, and we do everything we can to keep crows out. Spinners, whirlies, flapping platic stips, everything.
There is one tribe that had a vicious bold leader who would pull everything in sight.
(NOT from the tribe Bob, our crow buddy, is in!)
So, with the trouble-inducing leader gone, life if safe in the garden. And I have another skull in my collection.
Understand, there are three distinct 'tribes' that border on one another here, and we work to live with them.
We even have an old pet crow.
More skull and bone stock-
Living crow reference/stock-
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Recently, the illustrator John Howe wrote this short observation on the matter;
Intrigued by the term “a murder of crows”, looked up origins of same. Most cited: “a mursher of crowys”, Egerton Ms, c.1450. Then through “murther” to “morther” (already extant in 1379), but nowhere can “mursher” be found to signify “murder”. All the rest is speculation. Most unsatisfactory etymologically. Hapax legome...non? Homonymy? Nonce word? But then, ravens come in unkindnesses. Language and birds, never simple.
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Thanks a lot