Scarecrow wiki:
[raditionally a mannequin) that is used to discourage birds like crows from disturbing crops.Not only do crows feed on recently cast seed, they also gather nightly, starting with groups of a half dozen which then unite to form a group of 20 to 30 and so on until the flock is quite large and noisy. It is their habit to return to the same place each night. Thus, it is in the interest of farmers, gardeners, and homeowners to move them along (to make them someone else's problem).
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bird wiki:
>For other uses, see Bird (disambiguation). Many - see section below. Birds are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates characterized primarily by feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, and hollow bones. Birds range in size from the tiny hummingbirds to the huge Ostrich and Emu. Depending on taxonomic viewpoint, there are about 8,800â10,200 living bird species (plus about 120â130 that have become extinct in the span of human history) in the world, making them the most diverse class of terrestrial vertebrates.
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