ornithomancy
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thumb|Etruscan wall painting from Tomba degli Auguri (c. 530 BC) showing two augurs
Ornithomancy is the practice of reading omens from the actions of birds followed in many ancient cultures including the Greeks, and is equivalent to the augury employed by the ancient Romans.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ornithomancy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.