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have been cawing
  • present perfect progressive of caw.

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A chickadee was calling in the woods yesterday,—the only small bird I have taken note of yet; but, crows have been cawing in the woods for a week past, though not in very great numbers.

From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. by Hawthorne, Nathaniel