cawed; cawing; caws
: to utter the harsh raucous natural call of the crow or a similar cry
caw
noun
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Crater Lake National Park Oregon Climbing the Watchman Peak, part of a 1.7-mile out-and-back trail with panoramic views of Crater Lake, my family stopped to figure out where the long cawing sound was coming from.
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Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 21 May 2025
Morning came, and with it the sounds of seabirds cawing and boats slicing through the water outside.
—Cinelle Barnes, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2025
Mobbing will sound like cawing or angry chirps, distinct from typical birdsong.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
Mikaal Sulaiman’s straightforward sound design gives us crows cawing, children at play, and kyries between scenes.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
Additionally, the crows paused before cawing correctly, showing longer reaction times before producing higher totals of vocalizations.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2024
Using a portable tape player and loudspeaker, Berger plays sounds of wolves howling or ravens cawing.
—Mark Wheeler, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Besides the bodily functions of Wake, the constant rhythm of waves crashing, seagulls cawing and machines humming on this isolated rock are some of the constants that carry from the dead of night to daybreak.
—Garrett Mitchell, azcentral, 24 Oct. 2019
The severity of the framing can seem at first like a distortion of reality, much like the wild, teeming soundscape, alive with buzzing insects, cawing birds, giggling children and distant gunshots.
—Justin Chang, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
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Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 21 May 2025
Morning came, and with it the sounds of seabirds cawing and boats slicing through the water outside.
—Cinelle Barnes, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2025
Mobbing will sound like cawing or angry chirps, distinct from typical birdsong.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
Mikaal Sulaiman’s straightforward sound design gives us crows cawing, children at play, and kyries between scenes.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
Additionally, the crows paused before cawing correctly, showing longer reaction times before producing higher totals of vocalizations.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2024
Using a portable tape player and loudspeaker, Berger plays sounds of wolves howling or ravens cawing.
—Mark Wheeler, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Besides the bodily functions of Wake, the constant rhythm of waves crashing, seagulls cawing and machines humming on this isolated rock are some of the constants that carry from the dead of night to daybreak.
—Garrett Mitchell, azcentral, 24 Oct. 2019
The severity of the framing can seem at first like a distortion of reality, much like the wild, teeming soundscape, alive with buzzing insects, cawing birds, giggling children and distant gunshots.
—Justin Chang, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
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“Caw.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/caw. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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