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  • McDiarmid, Hugh,
    1
  • McGill University,
    1
  • McGowan, Kevin,
    1
    ,
    2
  • magnetite,
    1
  • magpies (
    Pica pica
    ),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    • aggression in,
      1
      ,
      2
    • ancestors of,
      1
    • appearance,
      1
    • caching,
      1
      ,
      2
    • colours,
      1
      ,
      2
    • distributions,
      1
      ,
      2
    • domestication of,
      1
    • in Lakota culture,
      1
    • lifespan,
      1
    • and mimicry,
      1
    • names for,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • nests,
      1
    • numbers of,
      1
    • and play,
      1
    • in Scotland,
      1
      ,
      2
    • self-recognition,
      1
    • and songbird populations,
      1
    • in superstition and myth,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
    • talking,
      1
    • see also
      Spike
  • Marley (sun conure),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  • martins,
    1
    • house martins,
      1
    • sand martins,
      1
  • Mary Queen of Scots,
    1
  • Marzluff, John, and Tony Angell,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Max (starling),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
  • Mearns, the,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Medicine Grizzly Bear,
    1
  • memory,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    • and caching,
      1
      ,
      2
  • Mesozoic era,
    1
  • Messaien, Olivier,
    1
  • Michael, Anne,
    1
  • Microraptor gui
    ,
    1
  • Mind of the Raven
    (Heinrich),
    1
    ,
    2
  • Miocene epoch,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Miocorvus larteti
    ,
    1
  • Miopica
    ,
    1
  • Monet, Claude,
    1
  • Morgan, Edwin,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Munch, Edvard,
    1
  • Na Gruagaichean,
    1
  • Napoleonic Wars,
    1
  • Native American culture,
    1
  • neurogenesis,
    1
    ,
    2
  • New Yorker
    ,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Nicholson, E. M.,
    1
    ,
    2
  • nightingales,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Noah’s Ark,
    1
  • North America,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • North Star,
    1
  • Odin of the Nine Worlds,
    1
  • Oligocene epoch,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Oliver, Mary,
    1
  • On the Origin of Species
    (Darwin),
    1
  • One Thousand T’ang Poems
    ,
    1
  • oscines (true songbirds),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Ostrom, John,
    1
  • Ovid,
    1
  • owls,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    • snowy owls,
      1
    • songs of,
      1
    • wings of,
      1
  • oystercatchers,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • palaeoneurology,
    1
  • Paleocene epoch,
    1
  • Palmers pet shop,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Panerai,
    1
  • parasites,
    1
    ,
    2
  • parrots,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    • African grey parrots,
      1
      ,
      2
    • aggression in,
      1
    • Blumenau’s parakeets,
      1
    • brains of,
      1
    • cockatiels (
      Nymphicus hollandicus
      ),
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
    • cockatoos,
      1
    • domestication of,
      1
    • eastern rosellas (
      Platycercus
    • eximius
      ),
      1
    • and French moult,
      1
    • intelligence in,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
  • parrots –
    continued
    • macaws,
      1
      ,
      2
    • parakeets,
      1
      ,
      2
    • preening,
      1
    • sun conures,
      1
    • songs of,
      1
    • talking,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • wariness of,
      1
  • passerines,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  • Pennan,
    1
  • pesticides,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Peter Grimes
    (Britten),
    1
  • Peterhead,
    1
    ,
    2
  • petrels,
    1
    ,
    2
  • pheasants,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • phoenix,
    1
  • phylogenetic systematics (cladistics),
    1
    ,
    2
  • Picardy,
    1
  • Picasso, Pablo,
    1
    ,
    2
  • pigeon fanciers,
    1
    ,
    2
  • pigeons,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    • homing,
      1
    • intelligence in,
      1
    • racing pigeons,
      1
    • sense of smell,
      1
    • wild,
      1
    • wood pigeons,
      1
  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
    (Dillard),
    1
  • Pleistocene epoch,
    1
  • Pliny,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Poe, Edgar Allan,
    1
  • Pogues,
    1
  • primates,
    1
  • Psittacidae,
    1
  • puffins,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Rackham, Arthur,
    1
  • Raeburn, Henry,
    1
  • raptors,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • rats (
    Rattus
    ),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  • Rautavaara, Einojuhani,
    1
  • ravens (
    Corvus corax
    ),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    • and allopreening,
      1
    • anthropomorphism and,
      1
    • appearance,
      1
    • behaviour,
      1
      ,
      2
    • and Beltane,
      1
    • benefits of,
      1
    • and extreme climates,
      1
    • ingenuity of,
      1
    • lifespan,
      1
    • and literature,
      1
    • names for,
      1
    • in Native American culture,
      1
    • nests,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • pellets,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • persecution of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • and play,
      1
    • in superstition and myth,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • Truman Capote’s,
      1
    • voices,
      1
    • and wolves,
      1
  • Ravens in Winter
    (Heinrich),
    1
  • Ravensong (Feher-Elston),
    1
  • robins,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • rooks (
    Corvus frugilegus
    ),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    • appearance,
      1
    • beaks,
      1
    • behaviour,
      1
      ,
      2
    • benefits of,
      1
    • caching,
      1
    • distributions,
      1
      ,
      2
    • egg-laying,
      1
    • grey cere,
      1
    • in Lithuania,
      1
    • migrations,
      1
      ,
      2
    • moulting,
      1
    • names for,
      1
    • nests,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • persecution of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • and play,
      1
    • rookeries,
      1
    • sociability,
      1
      ,
      2
    • social organisation,
      1
      ,
      2
    • sunning,
      1
    • in superstition and myth,
      1
    • voices songs,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • see also
      Chicken
  • St Brigit of Kildare,
    1
  • San Diego Zoo,
    1
  • Savage, Candace,
    1
  • Schieffelin, Eugene,
    1
  • Schubert, Franz,
    1
  • Scotland,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    • architectural styles,
      1
    • cities,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • corvid distributions,
      1
      ,
      2
    • Highland clearances,
      1
    • Highlands,
      1
      ,
      2
    • James I’s return to,
      1
    • magpies in,
      1
      ,
      2
    • north-east,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
    • persecution of corvids,
      1
      ,
      2
    • ravens in,
      1
    • shooting in,
      1
      ,
      2
    • and starlings,
      1
    • and superstition,
      1
      ,
      2
    • wolves in,
      1
  • sea-birds,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Second World War,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Sgoran Dubh,
    1
  • shags,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Shakespeare, William,
    1
  • sheep,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
    1
  • shibui
    ,
    1
  • shooting and hunting,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Sicily,
    1
  • Silent Spring
    (Carson),
    1
  • sinosauropteryx,
    1
  • Solnhofen,
    1
    ,
    2
  • songbirds,
    see
    oscines
  • sparrows,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
  • Spike (magpie),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    • aggression,
      1
    • and archaeopteryx,
      1
    • and bedtime,
      1
    • caching,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
    • death of,
      1
    • and empathy,
      1
    • eyes,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • fearlessness,
      1
    • fears,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
    • infancy of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • intelligence,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • and life with humans,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
    • moulting,
      1
    • pellets,
      1
    • and play,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • preening,
      1
    • self-recognition,
      1
    • tail feathers,
      1
    • talking,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
    • tastes in food,
      1
    • wildness of,
      1
    • wing-clipping,
      1
    • and Ziki,
      1
      ,
      2
  • Spring in Washington
    (Halle),
    1
  • starlings (
    Sturnus vulgaris
    ),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    • evening song,
      1
    • imitative powers,
      1
    • navigation,
      1
    • social organisation,
      1
    • in United States,
      1
  • Stob Coire a’ Chearcaill,
    1
  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
    1
  • sub-oscines (tyranni),
    1
  • Sumerian myth,
    1
  • superstition and myth,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  • swallows,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • swifts,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • syrinx,
    1

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