Caw!

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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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.

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.