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Common Raven Corvus corax

6/11/2023 Irvine Regional Park, Irvine

Shiny crow

Munin was suspicious of the little car, and wanted to perch on top...

Once she was in it she liked the cave aspect though.

One person-who-shall-not-be-named suggested we remove the roof and fly her like a kite out the top of the convertible. We did NOT do that.

(Munin is my African raven.)

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Another photo of Breadsticks that almost looks like a game or propaganda poster. Click here to check out my online shop!

Right now it is not easy to meet my crows as they are all moulting and like to hide, especially when the moult their flight feathers. This is one of my crow pairs that I usually see every time I take a walk in the neighborhood but I haven't seen them for over a week and was already worried. So I was quite happy to see them and I still find them beautiful even if they look a bit plucked.

The molting has reached new levels and Grumpy Crow is sick of the juvenile’s shit.

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(This is Munin, my African raven.)

A gift for you

A typical scene that I witnessed very often with "my" pairs of crows. I encounter a pair and I give them both snacks and sometimes one of them hides the snack near by. In this instance, the crow in the picture hid the snacks in the foliage in the back and then came back to me. What you see as a dark blob in the background is the other crow of the pair stealing the hidden snacks. What I find strange is the fact, that it is known that crows very well know that if they are watched while hiding food that there is a risk that another crow will steal it. So research has shown that sometimes crows only pretend to hide something or they fly off to a place where they are not watched to hide their food.

But what I see among pairs is that there seem to be a different kind of behavior. Snacks are sometimes hidden in full view of the partner and as soon as the crow leaves the hiding spot the partner gets the snacks out of the stash in full view of the crow that has hidden the snack. And they let it happen. In these pictures the crow looks a bit resigned, but maybe that is a very human misinterpretation. Maybe the hiding and finding of food is a kind of game between them. Maybe the crow in the front pretends to not see what their partner is doing. Maybe they want the partner to get the snack.

Moments like these are really interesting. It is one of the joys of befriending crows, to watch them interact, to think about why they do what they do.

Painting with the blood of her enemies.

from the deep #24041: ceramic crow by Tracy Wright

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Blue jay

July 29th, 2024

My yard, Minnesota

i recently went on holiday to dorset and managed to spot a pair of ravens!

i had never seen ravens before this point, but i was able to recognise their distinctive croaks and took a walk to find them

the photos aren't the best as they were hiding in the top of a tall pine tree, but i was lucky enough to get some photos when they took flight!

Crow and the Moon, Kawanabe Kyōsai, 1887

Now that she's fully healed up, we have been taking Ren to one of our local parks on the weekends.

I live in a city where the crows have won the corvid turf war, so definitively that they printed it in the regional bird book.

so I've never seen a raven here, but I swear I heard one at this park. I'm still thinking about it because I am enamoured with the idea that there are a few ravens hiding out right in the middle of the city.

The fledgelings are trying to stock up, probably before Munin takes all the peanuts

Yesterday was a hot one, so we got some puffy crow action. Also a goth kiwi bird imitation.

Baby crow slowly growing up. If you look closely you can see that the iris is turning brown as there is already a small brownish ring on the very inside of the iris.

Torresian Crows, Little Crows and Australian Ravens

Note: the Torresian Crows can be distinguished from their near-identical cousins by the barely noticeable white base of the feathers on their heads and necks. (See No. 4)

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Munin looks totally stunned when she's overheated. She holds her wings away from her body, her beak hangs open, and she keeps blinking. We were all melting in the heat yesterday, but ravens take it to the next level.

The juvenile crow is quite capable of feeding itself without yelling and flapping when there are no adults around. Still figuring out the whole physics thing though (and aren’t we all?).

In this video it decided to try standing on the rim of the bowl, which went about as well as you might expect.

Crow - Portrait shot.