Clockwise left to right: a jackdaw, a Eurasian magpie, a rook and a hooded crow.
This is an index for tropes about birds in the corvid family (including crows, ravens and magpies).
Tropes
- Clever Crows
Crows and ravens are intelligent and resourceful birds. - Creepy Crows
Crows are creepy animals, and associated with unpleasant things. - Eyeball-Plucking Birds
Ravens and other scavenging birds will ALWAYS go for the eyeball of both living and dead animals. - Idiot Crows
When someone does or says something stupid, a crow flies by cawing at them. - Magpies as Portents
Magpies' behavior can be used to predict the future. - Scary Scarecrows
Scarecrows that scare more than just crows. - Tengu
A type of Youkai resembling either humanoid crows or red-faced humans with wings.. - Thieving Magpie
Magpies are attracted to, and will steal, shiny objects.
