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.
