cawing
Harsh bird calls
Cawing is the harsh, grating cry of crows and similar birds.
The sound is repetitive and carries far: The cawing of crows filled the morning air.
Cawing often evokes rural or wild settings, and in literature suggests something ominous or desolate.
Large black carrion bird
- rookChess piece or corvid
- jackdawSmall Eurasian crow
- magpieChattering corvid, loves shinies
- blackbirdDark-plumaged thrush species
murder · rookery · flock · perch · nest · roost · feathers · beak
Loud and disorderly
- stridentHarsh and piercing
- gratingCrossed bars or harsh
- harshUnpleasantly severe or rough
- discordantLacking musical agreement
hoarse · rasping · guttural · cacophonous · shrill · piercing · squawking · croaking
Suggesting something bad approaches
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- eerieDisturbingly strange
- menacingConveying threat or danger
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
haunting · macabre · gloomy · desolate · bleak · lonely · gothic · graveyard
raven
Large black carrion bird
blackbird · murder · rookery · flock · perch · nest · roost · feathers · beak · wingspan
raucous
Loud and disorderly
discordant · hoarse · rasping · guttural · cacophonous · shrill · piercing · squawking · croaking · screeching
ominous
Suggesting something bad approaches
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- eerieDisturbingly strange
- menacingConveying threat or danger
sinister · haunting · macabre · gloomy · desolate · bleak · lonely · gothic · graveyard · battlefield
morning
Day's early hours
early · chorus · birdsong · rooftop · treetop · first light · stirring · routine · daily · persistent
alarm
Urgent warning signal
- alertWarning or watchfulness
- mobbingCollective harassment behavior
- intruderUnauthorized person present
predator · territorial · sentry · lookout · agitated · frantic · circling · diving · defensive · distress
- animal signalsbody language, bird songs, tail wagging, mating calls, whale song
- bird soundschirp, birdcall, tweet, bird songs, cheep
- bird traitsfeathered, plumed, plumage, plumaged, beaky
- vocalizationsspeak, speaking, talking, whisper, shout