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Or the animals that were squawking there first?

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2022

They were squawking in French among themselves about it.

From Washington Times • Jun. 29, 2015

And now the birthday girl was bawling, her friends were squawking and screeching.

From Newsweek • Jul. 30, 2012

“Magpies were squawking in the cottonwoods, and a little black-haired boy was throwing rocks at an oil can,” Byron says.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2010

The live occupants of the coop were squawking their unhappiness to the world as they traveled along.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson