A moody treatment of a Eurasian Jackdaw, Corvus monedula, aka Western Jackdaw, perched on a branch.
Often when seeing Jackdaws, which are common around here, I remember when I was at Primary school, reading the satirical poem, The Jackdaw of Rheims, written by an Anglican cleric, Richard Harris Barham, to poke fun of the pomp of the church, primary school. At that age, I apparently didn’t register the satire, because what I remember most is that after the Jackdaw was discovered to be the thief of the Cardinal’s ring …
“Heedless of grammar, they all cried, “That’s him!”, and it took me quite a while, in those pre-internet days, to discover that the correct grammar, never said, is “That’s he!”
The Jackdaw, like its relative the Magpie (both members of the Crow family) does have a long-standing reputation for stealing shiny things. It’s scientific species name, mondula, given by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, comes from the Latin word ‘monet’, from which we also derived the word ‘money’.
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