الطيور السوداء ليست نذير شؤم — فالغراب أطعم نبياً

The black bird of Scripture is the raven, and it is not an omen. It is the bird God feeds, and the bird that fed a prophet. That is close to the opposite of what most pages about black birds say. The raven leaves the ark and does not come back Its first appearance is easy to miss, because the dove gets the attention. After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark and sent out…