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Brandon-

climber

The Granite State.

Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 25, 2014 - 08:34am PT

Super intelligent birds. There is a family living in my hood, we call back and forth. It's nice to see them around 5:30 every morning when I'm out walking my dogs.

Anyone else a fan of ravens?

climber

Jun 25, 2014 - 08:40am PT

Yep. Cool birds. I'm even a fan of crows though not when they come through my yard at 5am in the summer.

Their call would make a great ring tone for your phone.

Dingus Milktoast

Gym climber

Maestro, Ecosystem Ministry, Fatcrackistan

Jun 25, 2014 - 08:42am PT

DMT

locker

climber

STFU n00b!!!

Jun 25, 2014 - 08:54am PT

"Anyone else a fan of ravens?"...

Many years back I had one as a "Pet"...

They are very intelligent birds...

Considered the most intelligent of the North American birds (If memory serves me correctly), with crows coming in second...

Mine used to talk, play catch, and lived cageless in my then apartment...

Not being a legal situation, my neighbor called it in and they took the bird from me, caged him, and he became the "Mascot" at some Fish and Game place or wherever...

climber

Jun 25, 2014 - 08:58am PT

Cool looking book DMT. Thanks for the headsup on it.

Brandon-

climber

The Granite State.

Topic Author's Reply - Jun 25, 2014 - 09:02am PT

Thanks, DMT, I'll check it out.

Dingus Milktoast

Gym climber

Maestro, Ecosystem Ministry, Fatcrackistan

Jun 25, 2014 - 09:04am PT

Brandon a big two thumbs up on that book.

The place setting is New Hampshire, in principle. I think you will like it a lot and there are numerous surprises therein.

DMT

Brandon-

climber

The Granite State.

Topic Author's Reply - Jun 25, 2014 - 09:08am PT

Drinking coffee and walking my dogs on Monday morning, I watched a very large raven flee from an aggressive jay. His wingspan was damn close to my own.

And Ron, nature is a fierce thing, you of all people should know that.

Dingus Milktoast

Gym climber

Maestro, Ecosystem Ministry, Fatcrackistan

Jun 25, 2014 - 09:20am PT

They are wolf birds. They eat other birds, yep. And carrion. They followed the Euro-wars around and pecked out the dead eyes of Euro-cadavers. They follow hunters like Inuits and wolves and such, as well.

I can readily see the explosion of cities in the arid West like Reno and Sparks, that there is attendant explosion of raven population. I can see they would eat turtles.

But damn those birds for killing a duck before you could Ron! ;D

DMT

Rollover

climber

Gross Vegas

Jun 25, 2014 - 09:21am PT


	Ron? Credit: Rollover

Brandon-

climber

The Granite State.

Topic Author's Reply - Jun 25, 2014 - 09:31am PT

I just ordered the book, Dingus. Looking forward to it.

Chewybacca

Trad climber

Montana, Whitefish

Jun 25, 2014 - 09:31am PT

I'm a fan of ravens. They help me in my quest to watch grizzly bears. They have learned that where there are bears there are food scraps.

They are surprisingly large birds as well. For perspective here is one flying next to an eagle.

StahlBro

Trad climber

San Diego, CA

Jun 25, 2014 - 09:43am PT

Ravens and Crows are not the same thing. They call a flock of crows a "murder" for a reason.

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Crow_vs_Raven

Corvids will eventually take over after humans get done killing themselves off.

johntp

Trad climber

socal

Jun 25, 2014 - 09:59am PT

I hate ravens and crows. Freaking noisy as hell.

locker

climber

STFU n00b!!!

Jun 25, 2014 - 10:01am PT

"Locker, my parrot could train ravens..They ARE intelligent boids,, but they ARE murderous bastids to all the other boids... "...

On command my Raven would have pecked your Parrots eyes out and then drank it's milkshake...

;-)