- jackdaw Corvus monedula. The jackdaw, like many scavengers, is often associated with misfortune:
The gret kirk of Sanctandros... was brynt... be ane ka... bering ane spark of fire to hir nest;
(JOHN BELLENDEN The Chronicles of Scotland, compiled by Hector Boece 1531)
They were even associated with witchcraft, as in this strange confession recorded in Pitcairn's Ancient Criminal Trials in Scotland (1662):
I [Isobel Gowdie] went in, in the likenes of a kea and the said Elspet Chisolm wes in the shape of a catt.