A jackdaw
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
a jackdaw · jackdaw
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Wasps
A bird used as a simile for Philocleon's crafty escape method.
but he, like a jackdaw, knocked in pegs for himself along the wall, and then leapt out.
Characters
A pet bird for which the petty-ambitious man commissions a miniature ladder and shield purely for display.