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A European bird (Coloeus monedula) of the crow family, often nesting in church towers and ruins.
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A Daurian jackdaw, a closely related Asian bird (Coloeus dauuricus).
Examples of jackdaw in a Sentence
Then soars prospecting and swoops on a young jackdaw, flies with it to a grassy diner top of the cliff.
Jac to Bach (The little jackdaw) promises a healthy future for roots music in Wales.
Of birds very few are indigenous; the jackdaw, blue solitary thrush, spectacled warbler, the robin, kestrel and the herring-gull.
As the large jackdaw sized bird flew toward the pond I could make out its appearance as a Green Woodpecker.
With birds and mammals, however, there is no doubt that complete albino individuals do occur; and among species which, like the jackdaw, certain deer and rabbits, are normally deeply pigmented.
According to a common Indian belief a wealthy man who dies without an heir returns to guard his wealth in the form of a serpent, and Italian superstition supposed that to find a serpent's skin brought good luck (Leland) .2 No singular preference for jewels on the part of serpents will explain the belief, and creatures like the jackdaw which have this weakness do not enjoy this prominence in folk-lore.