Jay Griffiths

Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.

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Use 'caw' to describe specific bird sounds, primarily crows and ravens, not all bird noises.

Bird Calls

'Caw' often evokes a specific mood or atmosphere in literature, especially mystery or eeriness.

Atmospheric Imagery

'Caw' is an example of onomatopoeia, where the word imitates the actual sound.

Onomatopoeic Word

Use 'cawed' when describing a crow or raven making their distinctive sound.

Action of Birds

The verb form 'cawed' can indicate the presence or movement of these birds without visual description.

Indicative of Presence

'Cawed' can describe a single sound or a series of calls done repeatedly.

Single or Repetitive

 they were doing an experiment where they captured some crows on campus. Some students went out, netted some crows, brought them in, weighed and measured them, and let them back out again. And they were entertained to discover that for the rest of the week, whenever these particular students walked around campus, these crows would caw at them and run around, and make their life kind of miserable.

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 or you are going to make your cat wait and that's going to be probably detrimental to some form of your body you it's going to get cold at some point so let us know how it goes and if there is any cawing that takes place send us a photo it will be quite funny to see

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 You hear the gentle lap of waves, the distant cawing of a seagull. But then an annoying whine interrupts the peace,

Caw

Bird Calls

Atmospheric Imagery

Onomatopoeic Word

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