This little plush Crow is made by Wild
Republic and is part of their Audubon
Bird series. The American Crow (Corvus Brachyrhynchos) needs
little description. I
t is a large (17 to 21-inch), completely black
bird. It has a purplish gleam in strong sunlight. The tail is
fan-shaped, the bill and feet strong and black.The only other
large black bird is the Raven.
This sociable bird is found among deciduous
growth along rivers and streams; orchards and city parks. It
will also frequent mixed and coniferous woods, but avoids closed
coniferous forests and desert expanses. Its voice, a loud caw
caw or cah cah, is easily imitated.
The Crow breeds from 
British Columbia, central interior Canada and Newfoundland
south to Southern California, the Gulf Coast and Florida. It
winters north to southern Canada.
The nest is a well-made bowl of sticks
lined with feathers, grass and rootlets built in a tree. There
it lays 4-6 greenish eggs that are spotted with dark brown.
The Crows diet is varied: seeds, garbage,
insects and mice. It is well-known for its nest-plundering, but
in orchards and fields it destroys many injurious insects. Crows
do destroy many eggs and nestlings of woodland and meadow birds,
but they also weed out the weak and feeble, and they alert the
animals in a neighborhood when danger approaches.
This is Caw a Beanie Baby made by
Ty Inc. Caw was introduced in June of 1995 and retired the next
year.
