120+ Crow Riddles with Answers
Crows make good riddles because they keep doing things birds aren't supposed to do: they hold funerals, recognize faces, work out that your scarecrow is a bag of straw, and travel in a group with the most dramatic collective noun in English. Some of these riddles want that word. Others just want you to name the mirror, the roost, or the hawk-shaped kite flapping over a field. And a fair number are only there for the pun.
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Three Crow riddles, answers included
- What do you call a group of crows?
- Answer: A murder
- Why did the crow sit on the telephone wire?
- Answer: To make a long-distance call
- Why is a raven like a writing desk?
- Answer: Because Poe wrote on both
Crow Riddles
- What do you call a group of crows?A murder
- Why did the crow sit on the telephone wire?To make a long-distance call
- Why is a raven like a writing desk?Because Poe wrote on both
- How do crows greet each other on the phone?They caw each other
- What do you call a crow that's afraid of everything?A chicken
- Why don't crows ever pay for their phone calls?They caw collect
- I dropped stones into a jar just to raise the water and take a drink. Which fable-famous bird am I?The crow from Aesop's fable
- What old phrase means 'in the most direct line, straight over hills and rivers'?As the crow flies
- I stand in fields with straw for bones, built to frighten but never scaring the smart ones for long. What am I?A scarecrow
- Sailors climb into me to watch the horizon, though no bird ever built me. What am I?A crow's nest
- What do you call the wrinkles that fan out beside your eyes when you smile?Crow's feet
- You serve me when someone has to swallow their pride and admit they were wrong. What am I?Eating crow
- I'm a bar with a curved end, named after a black bird, and I pry open what's nailed shut. What am I?A crowbar
- In Poe's famous poem, what one word does the black bird keep repeating?Nevermore
- I perch above a chamber door and answer every question with the same gloomy word. What am I?The Raven
- I'm a black bird and also a castle-shaped piece on a chessboard. What am I?A rook
- Show me to a crow and it might puff up its feathers, thinking a rival has shown up. What am I?A mirror
- What species of crow bends wire into hooks to fish snacks out of narrow tubes?The New Caledonian crow
- Storybook witches often perch me on their shoulder as a companion instead of a black cat. What am I?A crow
- What word means both a glossy black bird and boasting loudly about a win?Crow
- My feathers look plain black until sunlight hits them, my brain rivals a chimpanzee's, and my call is a single harsh syllable. What am I?A crow
- Every dawn, two of us fly across the world for Odin, then return to whisper what we've seen and remembered. What are we?Huginn and Muninn
- Legend says if six particular birds ever leave a certain London tower, the kingdom will fall. What are they?The ravens of the Tower of London
- In Chinese and Korean mythology, what three-legged creature is said to live inside the sun?The three-legged crow
- In several Pacific Northwest Indigenous stories, which clever black bird steals daylight to share with the world?Raven, the trickster
- In the story of Noah's Ark, which black bird was sent out to search for land before the dove?A raven
- What can an angry crow do years later, even if you've changed your clothes and hairstyle?Recognize and scold you
- Some crows leave small gifts, like buttons, bottle caps, or shiny bits, for one kind of person. Which kind?People who feed them
- In one famous experiment, crows learned to trade what for a peanut from a special machine?Coins
- On snowy roofs, some crows have been filmed doing this again and again purely for fun, using a lid as a sled.Sledding down the roof
- Why do crows sometimes gang up loudly on a hawk or owl, chasing and diving at it in broad daylight?They're mobbing a predator
- In some crow families, last year's chicks stick around the nest to do what for their new baby siblings?Help raise them
- Every evening, thousands of crows fly in to fill me for the night, then scatter again at dawn. What am I?A communal roost
- Which is closer to a wild crow's lifespan: 3 years, or 20?20 years
- Pound for pound, a crow's brain-to-body ratio is often compared to which surprisingly different smart animal?The chimpanzee
- Feed me a French fry, a beetle, or roadkill, I'm not picky about any of it. What kind of eater am I?An omnivore
- Under direct sunlight, a crow's 'plain black' feathers actually flash what two colors?Purple and blue
- In the city, I might get woven into a crow's nest instead of coiled on a spool. What am I?Wire
- I sound almost like 'crow,' but I'm really the pouch in a bird's throat where food waits before digesting. What am I?A craw
- What's the traditional collective noun for a group of ravens, not crows?An unkindness
- What unusual collective noun, borrowed from a construction site, traditionally describes a group of rooks?A building
- Which small, grey-naped relative of the crow is known for its strikingly pale, almost white eyes?A jackdaw
- In flight, how can you tell a raven from a crow just by looking at the shape of the tail?The raven's tail is wedge-shaped
- Which corvid is bigger with a deeper, croakier voice, the crow, or its larger cousin?The raven, bigger and deeper-voiced
- Every summer I ripen gold in the field, hoping the scarecrow keeps the black-winged thieves away. What am I?Corn
- By eating roadkill and garbage, what important job do crows quietly do for their ecosystem?They're nature's clean-up crew
- Some prey animals have learned to listen for a crow's sharp alarm call to know what's coming. What is it?An approaching predator
- Just like people from different regions, crows are said to have different what, in the way they caw?Accents
- When a crow dies, nearby crows sometimes gather loudly around the body. What do scientists nickname this gathering?A crow funeral
- What did the crow say to the scarecrow?You're stuffed!
- Why don't crows ever get lost on a road trip?They always know the crow-dinates
- What do you call a witty crow who always has a joke ready?A wise-crow
- Why did the crow join the church choir?It already had perfect caw-caw-phony
- What kind of tradesperson does a crow become when it repairs its own nest?A caw-penter
- What's a crow's favorite subject in school?Caw-culus
- What do you call a crow detective?Sherlock Caws
- What music genre would a crow band probably play?Caw and roll
- Why was the crow kicked out of the poker game?Too many caw-ds up its sleeve
- What would you call a crow that predicts the weather?A four-caw-ster
- What kind of workout keeps a crow in shape?Caw-dio
- What's the sweet word for two crows falling in love?A crow-mance
- What did one crow say to the other as the storm rolled in?Let's caw it a day!
- What's a crow's favorite way to spend a party?Caw-aoke
- What's the name for a crow band playing music together?A caw-chestra
- What trophy does the best-dressed crow take home?A Caw-scar
- Why can't you trust a crow with a secret?It always caws it out
- How does a crow prefer to commute with its friends?By caw-pool
- What word describes an extra-careful crow?Caw-tious
- What job title fits a crow who studies the night sky?An astro-caw-mer
- What's a good nickname for a crow with real artistic talent?A caw-tist
- What's the word for a crow that breaks the law?An out-caw
- How does a crow feel after finishing a marathon?Ex-caw-sted
- What happens to a crow that's stuck in rush-hour traffic?It's caw-ght in a jam
- What would a crow say right after winning a debate?I was caw-rect!
- What does a crow reach for first thing every morning?Its morning caw-fee
- What's it called when a line of crows patiently waits its turn?A caw-queue
- What kind of crow corrects your punctuation?A caw-mma expert
- What's the job title for a crow working in secret intelligence?A caw-vert operative
- What word describes a crow that's very persuasive?Caw-nvincing
- I flit across the lawn just ahead of the bird that casts me, dark and silent. What am I?A crow's shadow
- Perched on a bare branch at dusk, I'm just a black cutout against the sky. What am I?A crow's silhouette
- Every year I shed my old feathers one by one and grow shiny new ones underneath. What's happening to me?Molting
- Speckled and pale blue-green, I wait in a stick nest high in the trees before I ever learn to caw. What am I?A crow's egg
- Bald, loud, and always starving, I open my beak the second any shadow crosses my nest. What am I?A baby crow
- I'm louder than any alarm clock, and I go off outside your window every single morning for free. What am I?A crow's dawn call
- I get tipped over and rifled through by clever black beaks looking for breakfast. What am I?A trash can
- Squirrels aren't the only ones who raid me, a smart black bird figures out my tricks too. What am I?A bird feeder
- Stretched between poles, I give tired wings a place to rest and gossip in a row. What am I?A telephone wire
- I have four points on my face, yet a crow never needs me to fly in a straight line. What am I?A compass
- Scientists hide a treat inside me behind several steps, and the smartest crows figure me out fast. What am I?A puzzle box
- Researchers strap me to a branch to catch clever crows in the act of using tools. What am I?A trail camera
- Nobody wants me once I'm gone, but I make a fine free breakfast for a passing crow. What am I?Roadkill
- Built from twigs and lined with soft moss, I hold blue-green eggs safe in a treetop fork each spring. What am I?A nest
- Toss me onto the sidewalk and watch a crow abandon whatever else it was doing. What am I?A peanut
- According to folklore, I'm not really a bird at all, I'm anything sparkly a crow supposedly can't resist. What am I?A shiny trinket
- By day, I'm the one a gang of angry crows loves to harass and chase from tree to tree. What am I?An owl
- Shaped like a fierce hawk and tied to a string, I flap above the field to keep crows from landing. What am I?A hawk-shaped kite
- What dark pigment gives a crow's feathers their deep black color?Melanin
- Besides food, what will an opportunistic crow sometimes steal straight from another bird's nest?Eggs
- I hop into puddles after the rain, flapping and splashing just to clean my feathers. What am I doing?Bathing
- On a cool morning, I spread my wings wide and just stand there soaking up the sun like a lizard. What am I doing?Sunning
- Do most American crows fly far south for winter, or mostly just stick around and flock up in bigger numbers?They stay and flock up
- In flight, does a crow mostly soar like its raven cousin, or flap almost continuously?It flaps continuously
- I'm the sharp, single-syllable shout a crow gives from the top of a bare tree. What am I?A caw
- Why do farmers need to keep moving or upgrading their scarecrows every few days?Crows quickly realize they're harmless
- What old British exclamation of surprise literally names a black bird being pelted with rocks?Stone the crows!
- Which English poet published a stark, mythic 1970 poetry collection named simply after this black bird?Ted Hughes ('Crow')
- In a 1994 gothic revenge film, a murdered musician returns from the dead guided by which black bird?The Crow (1994 film)
- In old Western slang, what unflattering nickname for a broken-down, skinny horse invokes this scavenger bird?Crow bait
- What black-bird-named Kentucky bourbon has been distilled since the 1800s?Old Crow
- Which Native American nation, based today largely in Montana, shares its common English name with this bird?The Crow Nation (Apsaalooke)
- What Latin word, the scientific genus for crows and ravens, is also the name of a small constellation?Corvus
- Which Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, known for 'All I Wanna Do,' shares her surname with this bird?Sheryl Crow
- Which Oscar-winning actor's surname is this bird's name plus a silent 'e' at the end?Russell Crowe
- What architectural term describes a stepped, staircase-shaped roofline common in old Dutch and Scottish buildings?A crow-stepped gable
- In baseball, what's the hopping foot movement fielders use to add power before a big throw, named after a bird's gait?A crow hop
- Which giant king of Welsh mythology, whose name literally means 'raven,' had his head buried to protect Britain from invasion?Bran the Blessed
- In some cognitive tests, crows' problem-solving has been compared to that of a human child around what age?About 7 years old
- Why did medieval English speakers apparently settle on 'a murder' as the collective noun for crows?Their grim link to battlefield carrion
- What other idiom, involving a pastry, means almost exactly the same thing as 'eating crow'?Eating humble pie
- Besides a bird's call, what does it mean when a delighted baby 'crows'?Makes a happy, gurgling sound
- What simple simile, comparing something's color to this bird, is as common as 'white as snow'?Black as a crow
- Crows have razor-sharp eyesight, but which of the five senses is famously underdeveloped in most birds, including them?Smell
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What Crow Riddles Are Really Testing
Three different things, and it helps to know which one you're holding. The first group tests vocabulary that only exists for these birds: a group of crows is a murder, a group of rooks is a building, and the loud gathering around a dead crow has been nicknamed a funeral by the researchers who study it. If a riddle sounds like it's fishing for one strange word, it is.
The second group is straight observation. Show a crow a mirror and it puffs up at the rival. Thousands of them pour into the same trees at dusk and scatter at dawn. Move the scarecrow every few days or they work out it's harmless. These answer to what the bird actually does, not to wordplay.
The third group is the caw puns, and they resist thinking entirely. Caw and roll. A Caw-scar. Caught in a jam. Say the answer out loud and you'll either get it in a second or never - there's no middle ground with these.
Where a Crow Riddle Lands Well
Anywhere the bird is already in the room. Birders and corvid enthusiasts enjoy the ones with real science underneath - the roost, the funeral, the face recognition - because the answer is a fact they can go and verify rather than a trick they were talked into.
Teachers get more out of them than most: crows are the standard classroom example of animal intelligence, and a riddle about a scarecrow that stops working teaches the point faster than a paragraph does. The Halloween window helps too, when the murder-of-crows question suddenly feels seasonal.
For a mixed group, filter to Funny and deal the caw puns first. They warm a room up, and nobody feels stupid for missing one.
More Crow Riddles by Type
Crow Riddles for Kids
37 kid-friendly crow riddles with simple words, safe themes, and answers that make young solvers feel clever.
Example Crow Riddles for Kids
- What do you call a group of crows? A murder
- How do crows greet each other on the phone? They caw each other
- What do you call a crow that's afraid of everything? A chicken
- I dropped stones into a jar just to raise the water and take a drink. Which fable-famous bird am I? The crow from Aesop's fable
Hard Crow Riddles
For solvers who like a fight: 30 hard crow riddles that resist the first guess, and often the second.
Example Hard Crow Riddles
- Why is a raven like a writing desk? Because Poe wrote on both
- What species of crow bends wire into hooks to fish snacks out of narrow tubes? The New Caledonian crow
- My feathers look plain black until sunlight hits them, my brain rivals a chimpanzee's, and my call is a single harsh syllable. What am I? A crow
- Every dawn, two of us fly across the world for Odin, then return to whisper what we've seen and remembered. What are we? Huginn and Muninn
Crow Riddles for Adults
34 crow riddles with grown-up wit: subtler wordplay and references, zero crudeness, all challenge.
Example Crow Riddles for Adults
- What do you call the wrinkles that fan out beside your eyes when you smile? Crow's feet
- You serve me when someone has to swallow their pride and admit they were wrong. What am I? Eating crow
- In Poe's famous poem, what one word does the black bird keep repeating? Nevermore
- I perch above a chamber door and answer every question with the same gloomy word. What am I? The Raven
Funny Crow Riddles
The punchline crowd: 39 crow riddles built for a laugh, with puns, twists and groan-worthy wordplay included.
Example Funny Crow Riddles
- Why did the crow sit on the telephone wire? To make a long-distance call
- Why don't crows ever pay for their phone calls? They caw collect
- Storybook witches often perch me on their shoulder as a companion instead of a black cat. What am I? A crow
- On snowy roofs, some crows have been filmed doing this again and again purely for fun, using a lid as a sled. Sledding down the roof
Easy Crow Riddles
Warm up with 34 easy crow riddles for quick wins to build momentum before the tricky ones.
Example Easy Crow Riddles
- I stand in fields with straw for bones, built to frighten but never scaring the smart ones for long. What am I? A scarecrow
- I'm a bar with a curved end, named after a black bird, and I pry open what's nailed shut. What am I? A crowbar
- Every summer I ripen gold in the field, hoping the scarecrow keeps the black-winged thieves away. What am I? Corn
- What did the crow say to the scarecrow? You're stuffed!
Tricky Crow Riddles
30 tricky crow riddles that bait the obvious answer, so read slowly, the trap is in the wording.
Example Tricky Crow Riddles
- What can an angry crow do years later, even if you've changed your clothes and hairstyle? Recognize and scold you
- I sound almost like 'crow,' but I'm really the pouch in a bird's throat where food waits before digesting. What am I? A craw
- Which small, grey-naped relative of the crow is known for its strikingly pale, almost white eyes? A jackdaw
- Just like people from different regions, crows are said to have different what, in the way they caw? Accents
What Am I Crow Riddles
The classic guessing game: 37 what-am-I crow riddles that describe themselves clue by clue. Read, commit to a guess, then reveal.
Example What Am I Crow Riddles
- Sailors climb into me to watch the horizon, though no bird ever built me. What am I? A crow's nest
- I'm a black bird and also a castle-shaped piece on a chessboard. What am I? A rook
- Show me to a crow and it might puff up its feathers, thinking a rival has shown up. What am I? A mirror
- Every evening, thousands of crows fly in to fill me for the night, then scatter again at dawn. What am I? A communal roost
Clever Crow Riddles
54 crow riddles built on a genuinely neat idea rather than a trap: fair on the first read, satisfying on the reveal.
Example Clever Crow Riddles
- What old phrase means 'in the most direct line, straight over hills and rivers'? As the crow flies
- What word means both a glossy black bird and boasting loudly about a win? Crow
- Legend says if six particular birds ever leave a certain London tower, the kingdom will fall. What are they? The ravens of the Tower of London
- In Chinese and Korean mythology, what three-legged creature is said to live inside the sun? The three-legged crow
Long Crow Riddles
61 crow riddles with a full setup and room for real misdirection, the ones worth reading out loud.
Example Long Crow Riddles
- In several Pacific Northwest Indigenous stories, which clever black bird steals daylight to share with the world? Raven, the trickster
- In the story of Noah's Ark, which black bird was sent out to search for land before the dove? A raven
- Some crows leave small gifts, like buttons, bottle caps, or shiny bits, for one kind of person. Which kind? People who feed them
- Why do crows sometimes gang up loudly on a hawk or owl, chasing and diving at it in broad daylight? They're mobbing a predator
Crow Riddles to Ask Your Friends
30 crow riddles built to stump someone: text one without the answer, watch them squirm, then enjoy the reveal.
Example Crow Riddles to Ask Your Friends
- What's the traditional collective noun for a group of ravens, not crows? An unkindness
- What unusual collective noun, borrowed from a construction site, traditionally describes a group of rooks? A building
- When a crow dies, nearby crows sometimes gather loudly around the body. What do scientists nickname this gathering? A crow funeral
- Why don't crows ever get lost on a road trip? They always know the crow-dinates
Short Crow Riddles
In a hurry? 62 bite-size crow riddles that get to the point in one line, perfect to text a friend.
Example Short Crow Riddles
- In one famous experiment, crows learned to trade what for a peanut from a special machine? Coins
- Which is closer to a wild crow's lifespan: 3 years, or 20? 20 years
- Under direct sunlight, a crow's 'plain black' feathers actually flash what two colors? Purple and blue
- In the city, I might get woven into a crow's nest instead of coiled on a spool. What am I? Wire
All 123 Crow Riddles with Answers
1. What do you call a group of crows?
Answer: A murder
2. Why did the crow sit on the telephone wire?
Answer: To make a long-distance call
3. Why is a raven like a writing desk?
Answer: Because Poe wrote on both
4. How do crows greet each other on the phone?
Answer: They caw each other
5. What do you call a crow that's afraid of everything?
Answer: A chicken
6. Why don't crows ever pay for their phone calls?
Answer: They caw collect
7. I dropped stones into a jar just to raise the water and take a drink. Which fable-famous bird am I?
Answer: The crow from Aesop's fable
8. What old phrase means 'in the most direct line, straight over hills and rivers'?
Answer: As the crow flies
9. I stand in fields with straw for bones, built to frighten but never scaring the smart ones for long. What am I?
Answer: A scarecrow
10. Sailors climb into me to watch the horizon, though no bird ever built me. What am I?
Answer: A crow's nest
11. What do you call the wrinkles that fan out beside your eyes when you smile?
Answer: Crow's feet
12. You serve me when someone has to swallow their pride and admit they were wrong. What am I?
Answer: Eating crow
13. I'm a bar with a curved end, named after a black bird, and I pry open what's nailed shut. What am I?
Answer: A crowbar
14. In Poe's famous poem, what one word does the black bird keep repeating?
Answer: Nevermore
15. I perch above a chamber door and answer every question with the same gloomy word. What am I?
Answer: The Raven
16. I'm a black bird and also a castle-shaped piece on a chessboard. What am I?
Answer: A rook
17. Show me to a crow and it might puff up its feathers, thinking a rival has shown up. What am I?
Answer: A mirror
18. What species of crow bends wire into hooks to fish snacks out of narrow tubes?
Answer: The New Caledonian crow
19. Storybook witches often perch me on their shoulder as a companion instead of a black cat. What am I?
Answer: A crow
20. What word means both a glossy black bird and boasting loudly about a win?
Answer: Crow
21. My feathers look plain black until sunlight hits them, my brain rivals a chimpanzee's, and my call is a single harsh syllable. What am I?
Answer: A crow
22. Every dawn, two of us fly across the world for Odin, then return to whisper what we've seen and remembered. What are we?
Answer: Huginn and Muninn
23. Legend says if six particular birds ever leave a certain London tower, the kingdom will fall. What are they?
Answer: The ravens of the Tower of London
24. In Chinese and Korean mythology, what three-legged creature is said to live inside the sun?
Answer: The three-legged crow
25. In several Pacific Northwest Indigenous stories, which clever black bird steals daylight to share with the world?
Answer: Raven, the trickster
26. In the story of Noah's Ark, which black bird was sent out to search for land before the dove?
Answer: A raven
27. What can an angry crow do years later, even if you've changed your clothes and hairstyle?
Answer: Recognize and scold you
28. Some crows leave small gifts, like buttons, bottle caps, or shiny bits, for one kind of person. Which kind?
Answer: People who feed them
29. In one famous experiment, crows learned to trade what for a peanut from a special machine?
Answer: Coins
30. On snowy roofs, some crows have been filmed doing this again and again purely for fun, using a lid as a sled.
Answer: Sledding down the roof
31. Why do crows sometimes gang up loudly on a hawk or owl, chasing and diving at it in broad daylight?
Answer: They're mobbing a predator
32. In some crow families, last year's chicks stick around the nest to do what for their new baby siblings?
Answer: Help raise them
33. Every evening, thousands of crows fly in to fill me for the night, then scatter again at dawn. What am I?
Answer: A communal roost
34. Which is closer to a wild crow's lifespan: 3 years, or 20?
Answer: 20 years
35. Pound for pound, a crow's brain-to-body ratio is often compared to which surprisingly different smart animal?
Answer: The chimpanzee
36. Feed me a French fry, a beetle, or roadkill, I'm not picky about any of it. What kind of eater am I?
Answer: An omnivore
37. Under direct sunlight, a crow's 'plain black' feathers actually flash what two colors?
Answer: Purple and blue
38. In the city, I might get woven into a crow's nest instead of coiled on a spool. What am I?
Answer: Wire
39. I sound almost like 'crow,' but I'm really the pouch in a bird's throat where food waits before digesting. What am I?
Answer: A craw
40. What's the traditional collective noun for a group of ravens, not crows?
Answer: An unkindness
41. What unusual collective noun, borrowed from a construction site, traditionally describes a group of rooks?
Answer: A building
42. Which small, grey-naped relative of the crow is known for its strikingly pale, almost white eyes?
Answer: A jackdaw
43. In flight, how can you tell a raven from a crow just by looking at the shape of the tail?
Answer: The raven's tail is wedge-shaped
44. Which corvid is bigger with a deeper, croakier voice, the crow, or its larger cousin?
Answer: The raven, bigger and deeper-voiced
45. Every summer I ripen gold in the field, hoping the scarecrow keeps the black-winged thieves away. What am I?
Answer: Corn
46. By eating roadkill and garbage, what important job do crows quietly do for their ecosystem?
Answer: They're nature's clean-up crew
47. Some prey animals have learned to listen for a crow's sharp alarm call to know what's coming. What is it?
Answer: An approaching predator
48. Just like people from different regions, crows are said to have different what, in the way they caw?
Answer: Accents
49. When a crow dies, nearby crows sometimes gather loudly around the body. What do scientists nickname this gathering?
Answer: A crow funeral
50. What did the crow say to the scarecrow?
Answer: You're stuffed!
51. Why don't crows ever get lost on a road trip?
Answer: They always know the crow-dinates
52. What do you call a witty crow who always has a joke ready?
Answer: A wise-crow
53. Why did the crow join the church choir?
Answer: It already had perfect caw-caw-phony
54. What kind of tradesperson does a crow become when it repairs its own nest?
Answer: A caw-penter
55. What's a crow's favorite subject in school?
Answer: Caw-culus
56. What do you call a crow detective?
Answer: Sherlock Caws
57. What music genre would a crow band probably play?
Answer: Caw and roll
58. Why was the crow kicked out of the poker game?
Answer: Too many caw-ds up its sleeve
59. What would you call a crow that predicts the weather?
Answer: A four-caw-ster
60. What kind of workout keeps a crow in shape?
Answer: Caw-dio
61. What's the sweet word for two crows falling in love?
Answer: A crow-mance
62. What did one crow say to the other as the storm rolled in?
Answer: Let's caw it a day!
63. What's a crow's favorite way to spend a party?
Answer: Caw-aoke
64. What's the name for a crow band playing music together?
Answer: A caw-chestra
65. What trophy does the best-dressed crow take home?
Answer: A Caw-scar
66. Why can't you trust a crow with a secret?
Answer: It always caws it out
67. How does a crow prefer to commute with its friends?
Answer: By caw-pool
68. What word describes an extra-careful crow?
Answer: Caw-tious
69. What job title fits a crow who studies the night sky?
Answer: An astro-caw-mer
70. What's a good nickname for a crow with real artistic talent?
Answer: A caw-tist
71. What's the word for a crow that breaks the law?
Answer: An out-caw
72. How does a crow feel after finishing a marathon?
Answer: Ex-caw-sted
73. What happens to a crow that's stuck in rush-hour traffic?
Answer: It's caw-ght in a jam
74. What would a crow say right after winning a debate?
Answer: I was caw-rect!
75. What does a crow reach for first thing every morning?
Answer: Its morning caw-fee
76. What's it called when a line of crows patiently waits its turn?
Answer: A caw-queue
77. What kind of crow corrects your punctuation?
Answer: A caw-mma expert
78. What's the job title for a crow working in secret intelligence?
Answer: A caw-vert operative
79. What word describes a crow that's very persuasive?
Answer: Caw-nvincing
80. I flit across the lawn just ahead of the bird that casts me, dark and silent. What am I?
Answer: A crow's shadow
81. Perched on a bare branch at dusk, I'm just a black cutout against the sky. What am I?
Answer: A crow's silhouette
82. Every year I shed my old feathers one by one and grow shiny new ones underneath. What's happening to me?
Answer: Molting
83. Speckled and pale blue-green, I wait in a stick nest high in the trees before I ever learn to caw. What am I?
Answer: A crow's egg
84. Bald, loud, and always starving, I open my beak the second any shadow crosses my nest. What am I?
Answer: A baby crow
85. I'm louder than any alarm clock, and I go off outside your window every single morning for free. What am I?
Answer: A crow's dawn call
86. I get tipped over and rifled through by clever black beaks looking for breakfast. What am I?
Answer: A trash can
87. Squirrels aren't the only ones who raid me, a smart black bird figures out my tricks too. What am I?
Answer: A bird feeder
88. Stretched between poles, I give tired wings a place to rest and gossip in a row. What am I?
Answer: A telephone wire
89. I have four points on my face, yet a crow never needs me to fly in a straight line. What am I?
Answer: A compass
90. Scientists hide a treat inside me behind several steps, and the smartest crows figure me out fast. What am I?
Answer: A puzzle box
91. Researchers strap me to a branch to catch clever crows in the act of using tools. What am I?
Answer: A trail camera
92. Nobody wants me once I'm gone, but I make a fine free breakfast for a passing crow. What am I?
Answer: Roadkill
93. Built from twigs and lined with soft moss, I hold blue-green eggs safe in a treetop fork each spring. What am I?
Answer: A nest
94. Toss me onto the sidewalk and watch a crow abandon whatever else it was doing. What am I?
Answer: A peanut
95. According to folklore, I'm not really a bird at all, I'm anything sparkly a crow supposedly can't resist. What am I?
Answer: A shiny trinket
96. By day, I'm the one a gang of angry crows loves to harass and chase from tree to tree. What am I?
Answer: An owl
97. Shaped like a fierce hawk and tied to a string, I flap above the field to keep crows from landing. What am I?
Answer: A hawk-shaped kite
98. What dark pigment gives a crow's feathers their deep black color?
Answer: Melanin
99. Besides food, what will an opportunistic crow sometimes steal straight from another bird's nest?
Answer: Eggs
100. I hop into puddles after the rain, flapping and splashing just to clean my feathers. What am I doing?
Answer: Bathing
101. On a cool morning, I spread my wings wide and just stand there soaking up the sun like a lizard. What am I doing?
Answer: Sunning
102. Do most American crows fly far south for winter, or mostly just stick around and flock up in bigger numbers?
Answer: They stay and flock up
103. In flight, does a crow mostly soar like its raven cousin, or flap almost continuously?
Answer: It flaps continuously
104. I'm the sharp, single-syllable shout a crow gives from the top of a bare tree. What am I?
Answer: A caw
105. Why do farmers need to keep moving or upgrading their scarecrows every few days?
Answer: Crows quickly realize they're harmless
106. What old British exclamation of surprise literally names a black bird being pelted with rocks?
Answer: Stone the crows!
107. Which English poet published a stark, mythic 1970 poetry collection named simply after this black bird?
Answer: Ted Hughes ('Crow')
108. In a 1994 gothic revenge film, a murdered musician returns from the dead guided by which black bird?
Answer: The Crow (1994 film)
109. In old Western slang, what unflattering nickname for a broken-down, skinny horse invokes this scavenger bird?
Answer: Crow bait
110. What black-bird-named Kentucky bourbon has been distilled since the 1800s?
Answer: Old Crow
111. Which Native American nation, based today largely in Montana, shares its common English name with this bird?
Answer: The Crow Nation (Apsaalooke)
112. What Latin word, the scientific genus for crows and ravens, is also the name of a small constellation?
Answer: Corvus
113. Which Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, known for 'All I Wanna Do,' shares her surname with this bird?
Answer: Sheryl Crow
114. Which Oscar-winning actor's surname is this bird's name plus a silent 'e' at the end?
Answer: Russell Crowe
115. What architectural term describes a stepped, staircase-shaped roofline common in old Dutch and Scottish buildings?
Answer: A crow-stepped gable
116. In baseball, what's the hopping foot movement fielders use to add power before a big throw, named after a bird's gait?
Answer: A crow hop
117. Which giant king of Welsh mythology, whose name literally means 'raven,' had his head buried to protect Britain from invasion?
Answer: Bran the Blessed
118. In some cognitive tests, crows' problem-solving has been compared to that of a human child around what age?
Answer: About 7 years old
119. Why did medieval English speakers apparently settle on 'a murder' as the collective noun for crows?
Answer: Their grim link to battlefield carrion
120. What other idiom, involving a pastry, means almost exactly the same thing as 'eating crow'?
Answer: Eating humble pie
121. Besides a bird's call, what does it mean when a delighted baby 'crows'?
Answer: Makes a happy, gurgling sound
122. What simple simile, comparing something's color to this bird, is as common as 'white as snow'?
Answer: Black as a crow
123. Crows have razor-sharp eyesight, but which of the five senses is famously underdeveloped in most birds, including them?
Answer: Smell
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