Ja, it's wikipedia and supposed Navy information. Obscurish. Still a challenge to find a real source for the word. (sorry, the birds are sticky.)

This page takes it back to the Vikings,always good for anything Navy-Vikings

And a crow surely outspeeded those ships. They would have lost the bird within a few minutes, specially when the sight was already bad (The reason for using them). Foggy tale.

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