jackdaw

IPA: dʒˈækdɑ

A European bird (Coloeus monedula) of the crow family, often nesting in church towers and ruins.
A Daurian jackdaw, a closely related Asian bird (Coloeus dauuricus).

Examples of "jackdaw" in Sentences

These are the crows corvidae, such as the raven, carrion crow, rook, and jackdaw.
Are you so weak in natural history or have you forgotten that the jackdaw is a most respectable family bird!
Are you so weak in natural history, or have you forgotten that the jackdaw is a most respectable family bird?
A few weeks ago at the Tate Modern, my notes say “body parts on a baking tray” and “jackdaw and hooded crow skewered by arrows”.
It proved to be a kind of jackdaw, of huge stature, which scuttled out of the opening, and disappeared into the summit of Will Tree.
The jackdaw is a big-brained, extremely alert, very educable, loquacious bird.] [Illustration: _From Ingersoll's "The Wit of the Wild."
Occasionally a jackdaw would rise up briefly to sit on a sheep's back, but the most persistent of these interactions involved a magpie.