Playground perchers in "The Birds"

Usage examples of crows.

The crows swarmed around it, twenty or thirty of them, squabbling over the right to perch upon its shoulders.

While I was seated up top contemplating the nighttime river, wondering about crows, he was up forward mounting his monster purchase as a figurehead.

I spent a day roaming that haunted memorial to a dead god, alone except for crows, always wondering about the sort of men who had gone before me.

As if crows killing bats in a basement at midnight, around his head, was something that happened all the time.

I fell asleep, though I did not realize it till the conversation of crows awakened me.

When I reached the crest there was nothing to be seen but a few random crows circling no particular point.

See, I was laying there in the mud looking at these guys, trying to figure what I had in the trick bag that I could smack them with, and all of a sudden there’s about twenty crows swooping around.

In the town I saw nothing but a few crows fluttering from roof to roof.

I went walking through the camp, attended by crows as always, speaking to a man here, a man there, listening to an anecdote about a favorite wife or toddler.

There were crows sitting on the roofs of all the buildings, perching on the windowsills, and squatting on the steps and on the sidewalks.

crows were covering the lampposts and flagpoles, and there were crows lying down in the gutters and resting between fence posts.

There were even six crows crowded together on the sign that read "Town Hall," with an arrow leading down a crow-covered street.

The crows weren't squawking or cawing, which is what crows often do, or playing the trumpet, which crows practically never do, but the town was far from silent.

The air was filled with the sounds the crows made as they moved around.

Occasionally, several crows would flutter their wings, as if they were stiff from sitting together on a bench and wanted to stretch a little bit.