In honor of the Japanese crow story in today's Links Dump, here's a filler post with a picture of a Japanese crow:
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Caw!
Category: Japan • Pictures
Posted on: May 8, 2008 8:14 AM, by Chad Orzel
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# 1 | Brian | May 8, 2008 8:38 AM
What your picture doesn't show is scale. When we lived in Yokohama, we used to call these "mutant crows" because they were so big.
# 2 | Captain Button | May 8, 2008 9:12 AM
I, for one, welcome our coming corvid overlords.
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# 3 | Kate Nepveu | May 8, 2008 10:01 AM
Brian, I also found them startlingly large.
Also, I was watching _Princess Tutu_ at the time, so large black birds that said "caw" were . . . attention-getting.