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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From a distance, their posture on a ridge is that of a crow on carrion .
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Huge carrion birds gorged on the flesh.
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Humans don't necessarily get sick from eating carrion .
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Most of its prey are ducks and seabirds, fish and carrion .
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The black birds struggled out, a thousand of them, bright-beaked, anxious to find carrion .
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Unlike most other fabled beasts it preferred to scavenge carrion from the forest floor rather than kill for fresh meat.