as seen in fall crafting projects like cross stitch samplers and today I saw some feathered replicas in Michaels craft store featured near foam pumpkins.. What do these black birds historically symbolize?

It’s the whole scarecrow/blackbird-crow thing: symbolizing the scarecrow scaring off the blackbirds so that the crop can flourish and be harvested in the Autumn!

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• At 2010.03.09 10:14, Flea© said:
  

  They’re crows– they eat the leftover corn from the harvest.
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• At 2010.03.09 10:52, Mahira said:
  

  I agree.
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• At 2010.03.09 11:19, Sherry K said:
  

  It’s the whole scarecrow/blackbird-crow thing: symbolizing the scarecrow scaring off the blackbirds so that the crop can flourish and be harvested in the Autumn!
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• At 2010.03.09 12:03, couchP56 said:
  

  i have no idea I think the crows look stupid. I would rather just see fall leaves or a cornecorpia or turkeys and pumpkins for a fall craft project.
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