Cawvit

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Cawvits are large black birds who scavenge on human detritus both in towns and farmyards. They are also tolerant to viridplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVirid

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pests, eating borers, tube worms and other virid pests.

The name either derives from the sound of their call, or a corruption of one of the ancient languages.

There are four species of cawvit, the seavit and the common being the most numerous, but all have a mainly black body and beak, with white or grey underbelly. Some sub-species have plumes of various colours and differing wing profiles.

Although they are useful to farmers they are often considered creatures of ill omen, since cawvits a particularly fond of eating the flesh of dead mammals, including human corpses. Flocks of cawvits are often seen as an indication of death, or impending death.