corvid
/ˈkɔːvɪd
/noun Ornithology
A bird of the crow family (Corvidae); a crow.The crow intervened not to protect its fellow corvid but solely because a crow cannot resist the temptation to bully a small raptor....
- I responded to Dave that mobbing behavior, when smaller birds team up to harry a larger one, is common in many bird species, from corvids to raptors to songbirds.
- Postmortem specimens were collected from 40 corvids (9 American crows and 31 blue jays) that had died from no obvious cause.
Origin
Mid 20th century: from modern Latin Corvidae (plural), from Latin corvus 'raven'.
- not a dicky bird
- not a dog's chance
- not a few
- not a hair out of place
- not a hope (in hell)
- notaire
- notal
- no-talent
- notalgia paraesthetica
- notalgia paresthetica
- Notalian
- not a little
- not all that ——
- notam
- not a moment too soon
- NOT AND
- notandum
- not a patch on
- notaphilic
- notaphilist
- notaphily
- not a pretty sight
- not a proposition
- Notar
- notarial