carrion-crows

A thousand birds of prey, hawks, kites, carrion-crows, and ravens, disturbed from the lodgings which they had just taken up for the evening, rose at the report of the gun, and mingled their hoarse and discordant notes with the echoes which replied to it, and with the roar of the mountain cataracts.

Waverley 2004

Crows — carrion-crows — I will turn them into owls without

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

In their habits they well supply the place of our carrion-crows, magpies, and ravens; a tribe of birds widely distributed over the rest of the world, but entirely absent in South America.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

In their habits they well supply the place of our carrion-crows, magpies, and ravens; a tribe of birds widely distributed over the rest of the world, but entirely absent in South America.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

This wasn't something she could rout as easily as she could a flock of carrion-crows.

The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002

There was something vile looking about these carrion-crows.

Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch Annie Roe Carr

"Nearly well," he answered; "but those cursed carrion-crows are set upon killing me -- damn their souls!"

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

As in all this country, and in all the height of the colony we find numbers of buffaloes, elk, deer, and other game; so we find numbers of wolves, some tigers, Cat-a-mounts, (Pichous) and carrion-crows, all of them carnivorous animals, which I shall hereafter describe.

History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz

And over me the carrion-crows were retching as they flew.

Ballads of a Bohemian 1916

Three black horses abreast he drives -- Dishonour, Disappointment, and Disgrace -- and the more audacious of the carrion-crows fly croaking ominously alongside.

Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers Louis Raemaekers 1912