CORVIDAE and UPUPIDAE

Today, again, i was trying to find the name in Tibetan for hoopoe. But again i was unsuccessful... which means that i'll have to ask a professor, who once said that in class of Tibetan language. However, i was lucky in the sense that i found something precious for me. First i found some website about crow augury, in other words, how to fortell future events from the behaviour of crows, taking into account different moments of the day. I read that such method is used in Tibet (Bya-rog-gi skad brtag-par bya-ba...i can't paste tibetan script here, so just Wylie) and has its origins in India. I'm keen on ornithology and i like crows, so that website, http://www.jcrows.com/crolang.html , was really interesting to me. There's also information on crows, for those with no interest on divination and such arts.

On some other website, http://7thcrow.com/crows.html , i found more things on legends, myths regarding crows. That time what i read was about counting crows, nothing to do with their behaviour. There were some verses talking about events related to different numbers of crows. Here i reproduce 2 groups of verses:
1) Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable is:
One's sorrow, two's mirth,
Three's a wedding, four's a birth,
Five's a christening, six a dearth,
Seven's heaven, eight is hell,
And nine's the devil his old self.

2) Counting Rhyme (from The Folklore of Birds, by Laura C. Martin, 1993)
One for sorrow, two for mirth,
Three for a wedding, four for a birth,
Five for silver, six for gold,
Seven for a secret not to be told.
Eight for heaven, nine for hell,
And ten for the devil's own sel'.

It's not easy to spot crows around here, unlike what i've been told about Singapore and Tokyo...but i think that i'll pay attention to their number. I did like the rhyme (i read somewhere else that it was a nursery rhyme). I hope you too (or a few of you) liked this. Maybe some of you have already heard about this kind of things. ah.....if i hadn't heard the word in tibetan for hoopoe and, afterwards, having forgotten it, i wouldn't have had the chance to come across crow divination and the rhymes above. I'd not have looked for such word by myself, spontaneously since i wouldn't either have thought spontaneously about hoopoes. I'm thankful to that professor...