Meaning of jackdaw in English
(Definition of jackdaw from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Preliminary field trials have shown that it is possible to catch rooks, jackdaws and feral pigeons with narcotised baits.
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Among the greatest enemies and destroyers of bird life are the jays, the magpies, the jackdaws and the sparrow hawks.
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It is scarcely reasonable to encourage people to keep jackdaws, as they so often exhibit a dishonest streak.
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If the rook is removed, it may be logical to remove the jay and the jackdaw as well.
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The amendments would remove the jackdaw, the jay and the barn owl from part 1 of schedule 3.
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Are we to be allowed to use jackdaw traps, for instance?
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In reasonable numbers jackdaws are, on balance, beneficial to agriculture, but when very numerous they may cause an appreciable amount of damage to crops.
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One of the difficulties of dealing with the case is that liberated jackdaws will return to the place of their confinement.
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We have jackdaws and all kinds of birds nesting in these ruins.
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There are certain woods in this country where rooks and jackdaws go quite indiscriminately.
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I, like the jackdaw, do not feel a penny the worse for his terrible curse.
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It is not uncommon to find a jackdaw extremely happy in a cage.
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There are certain birds detrimental to human interest—the rook and the jackdaw.
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Those of us who live on the land are aware that that is the only possible way to catch a jackdaw.
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The jay and the jackdaw are members of the same family.
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