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YES! I kept wondering why the crows where I moved to sound like they are saying "uh-oh" instead of regular crowing. They are fish crows. Slightly smaller than the American Crow.
I love both crows and ravens. Old traditions in several cultures see them as messengers that travel between our world and the "other".
I feed the ones where I am currently staying in Ontario chicken wieners. They love them. The same family has been coming back each Spring for three or four years now. They take up their spot in a neighbor's birch tree and caw to us.
That messaging is said of vultures. The old myth about crows and ravens is that they portend human death.
Crows are super intelligent, and I assume ravens must be also. Crows can actually identify human faces and tell one human from another. If you feed them, they learn to recognize you. I had a neighbor once that had trained a neighborhood crow to come when she called his name, and to sit on her hand and shoulder.
I would love to get to that point! And yes, I do believe they recognize us.
Yup. All through there and through British Columbia, Yukon, North West Territories and Alaska, and on the Pacific coastline and the islands, the ravens can get really huge. Much bigger than the Ravens further south on the continent, some can get almost as big as bald eagles and they have deeper, more raucous voices too with a vast range of sounds.
I love that dripping water in an echoing barrel sound they make that Parnassia mentioned. There is no mistaking that sound for anything but a raven.
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Wow, I've never seen any that big. Most of those I've seen have been in Ontario, and while they are larger than crows, they are smaller than red-tailed hawks. A very distinctive voice.
When I lived in this one house in Seattle years ago, there was this one crow who had a thing against me. I don't know why it didn't like me, but at some point it dive-bombed me a couple times, after which point I threw a stick at it. I might have done that a couple times (don't worry I never hit the bird). For like, 2 or 3 years afterwards, whenever I went out of my house to walk to the supermarket when that particular bird was around, it would follow me for several blocks, dive-bombing me. Got really annoying. And I don't think it did that to any of my roommates, just me.
Memory skills go hand in hand with higher intelligence. Memory is essential for learning. By throwing a "weapon" at that particular crow, you demonstrated that you presented more of an active threat than some other humans it saw routinely. Not only would the bird recognize you every time it saw you, it would also remember what you did.
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