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[va-richmond-general] Re: Raven Via Crow?

From: Deannamail@xxxxxxx
To: va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 04:16:51 EST

In a message dated 11/1/2004 8:24:22 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
nancy.kitchens@xxxxxxx writes:
> know that Crows can do just about anything they want  BUT can they give a 
> perfect imitation of a Raven?  I have heard the Raven's croak out west and I 
> would swear that for a couple of days last week I heard one (just one) in the 
> woods surrounding my house.  Both times there were also crows chattering near 
> by.
> Is this a Corvid Halloween Hoax?  Has anyone recorded Ravens here recently?
> 

Yes to both.  In the past 15  years, we've recorded ravens 4 or 5 times near 
our house in Eastern Hanover, although not recently.  And that's with a 
positive visual ID based on considerable past experience of observing them in 
California and other western locales. That head is unmistakeable.  On the other 
hand, crows can certainly imitate the croak of a raven; we've watched them do 
it 
many times.  So I wouldn't record a raven unless I could see it clearly.

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[va-richmond-general] Re: Raven Via Crow?

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