Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-107.130.236.19-20160224003834/@comment-5049481-20160501032815

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Erm. The group of crows that flew off when Ruby was talking to her mothers grave has never been mentioned as being shape shifters. In fact, that is very specifically a homage to Monty, as it's actually his signature. His signature is a bunch of crows in front of a sun that spell out his name if you look at it the right way. They mention that the reason they added it to the scene is as homage to Monty.

Those particular crows have nothing to do with anyone other than Monty.

I strongly doubt It was just an important homage to Monty, I believe this was also a scene where Raven, Qrow, and others involved with a secret order they are a part of reuniting and checking in on the girls before they head off to beacon academy.