What bird is that? Ravens & Crows
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- What bird is that?
In the leadup to this year’s Aussie Backyard Bird Count, our very own National Public Affairs Manager Sean Dooley is talking us through how to tell the difference between commonly confused backyard birds.
In this video, we’re learning all about Crows and Ravens - and the easiest ways to tell Australia’s 5 species apart according to their location and calls.
Find out more: birdlife.org.au
THANK YOU so much for this video! I've struggled to find any information at all on Australian corvids that isn't confounded by northern hemisphere species. (Nor info on currawongs, for that matter, though I know they're a separate family.)
Yep, Eurocentrism for you.
1:48 - Australian Raven
2:10 - Little Raven
2:20 - Forest Raven
2:37 - Torresian Crow
2:53 - Little Crow
Thank you! I have finally got a definitive answer to who I witnessed picking and eating my mandarines. Happy to share with my little raven family. Such interesting birds.
Thanks for the awesome video. We have heaps of these guys in my street in Sydney and boy do they make a mess of the garbage! But they’re very curious and friendly. I was eating a croissant this morning and one was eyeing me so I reached out with a little piece in my hand and he took it. Honestly it made my day!
Wow! I'm in England and the differences between crows and ravens here is much more marked. Ravens are much bigger and their calls are quite different from your ravens. Ours make a very low pitched rattle and their throat feathers fluff out when they do it. Crows sound quite like yours. I love finding out about Australian birds - you sure have a big variety of beautiful ones. Some seem remarkably tame too. Liked your video a lot. Thanks!
Nothing sounds like the Australian bush quite like the call of the Raven/Crow. Its very distinctive. I much prefer the sounds of the Pied Butcher Bird. Very melodic.
@@johnseabrook1029 Agree! The pied butcher bird calls are very melodic and gentle.
Also notice the white eyes of Australian species, more like a jackdaw than your crows and ravens. We also have 'choughs' that look a little bit like northern hemisphere choughs but they are not corvids.
I’m in Adelaide and this is the best explanation I was hoping for !!! Thank you so much wow
Thaaaaank yoooou for clarifying that. SO THIS WHOLE TIME THEY'VE BEEN RAVENS!!! in Perth
Thank you for the video, I never realised we had so many species, subbed!
Great info. I honestly though they were all the same and the difference was that the crows in the bush were more chilled out (Australian ravens) and the ones in the city were stressed out trying to yell (little raven/crows)
Had no idea there were so many different varieties, in addition to the appearances of the varieties, their locations, and the sounds they make.
Thank you for that.
Fairly certain I'll still have a reasonable amount of difficulty distinguishing between them, but at least I now know they aren't all the same.
We never stop learning (unlike the way some people view things), and topics such as the noises made by animals can seem rather trivial, despite this whole subject being incredibly interesting (from my perspective.)
Greatly appreciated.
Thats was really helpful, Thanks. So the corvids in our Melbourne backyard are most likely Little Ravens.
We have the Australian Raven but i swear the length of the last caw is twice as long, slightly wobbly, and fades out. Brings me joy every time i hear it.
Mornington Peninsula, Vic.
*we also have the Little Raven but interestingly, no Forest Raven, which im surprised about, being so close to Tassie.
Australia raven sounds like cat getting strangled lol
Brilliant explanation thank you :)
It's funny that Ravens are called Crows in South Australia (even to the point of naming an AFL team after them).
I want to know why SA's Pied Currowongs have calls that sound nothing like the ones in QLD.
OMG...living in perth seeing so many what i thought were crows but now hearing these calls i now know they are Ravens and not crows.
Thank you so much for this information.
American crows & ravens sound so different to the Australian ones. You should make a video comparing their calls
Must tell the peeps on Crap Bird Photography page about this very useful information. Thank you! ❤️ 🙋♀️
Thank you so much for this video!!! American here, and I was wondering what bird was making sounds I heard regularly on the show "Prisoner", and the film "Long Weekend". Turns out it is the Little Raven. Mystery solved!
You are amazing! Your knowledge and descriptions are very detailed. Thank you.
Thank you for this. I’ve always understood that the difference between a raven & a crow is that the Australian raven is larger than the crow, has loose throat feathers & congregates in family groups, while crows congregate in large flocks & are smaller & have a hierarchical structure to their flock.
I'm outside editing some Red-Capped Parrot footage I've been filming at home & the famous summer 'crow' call squawked out through the speakers of the laptop.
Wanting to describe their call, I came here for the education...again 🤦♂️
In my experience of living in Perth, they were always called crows(wrongly it seems lol).
Though at 59, I'll probably still call them crows. ..because of habit 🙃
Great video👍👍✌️
Can I just say we had a game of “ID the species” with a room full of ornithologists. When it got to trying to pick ravens and crows apart from just pictures there was MAYHEM 😂😂
fantastic video, thanks so much
Thankyou, we have a couple different ones going from those calls. Here in North East Victoria.
Good info. I can attest that the variable quack of a torresian crow is replete with language so it's infinitely variable. A neighbouring nesting pair has a proper noun for me.
Great content, thanks for that!
Love this video. Thank you so much, I live in Perth, and I am fascinated with these animals. ❤
Excellent! Thank you!
Thank you for doing this video! I now know the difference between ravens and crows!
Great video, thanks :)
Thank you for clearing up my corvid confusion!
This is really wonderful to know about the beautiful Australian Ravens & Crows - thank you so much it has really helped inform me to identify the beauties who visit my garden - Bird Blessings to You 🐦
What’s strange is that I can recall the last one when I was in Coober Pedy I’m pretty sure. But I hear the Australian raven sound even though you said we have the little raven in Adelaide
According to eBird, the corvids in Coober Pedy are mostly Little Crows, and some Australian Ravens. There's also rare reports of Little Ravens.
That was hugely helpful. Thankyou!
Thankyou, talking to people in a group named The crow Group, in the USA. Is very difficult since their cows and Ravens are, as I am finding out so very different to ours here in Australia, 🪶🦅😊
Thanks mate. They annoy the crap out of me, but I respect their place in the world and I know they're bloody smart. This clip will be handy to ID the noisy buggers.
There is a big raven going bonkers outside my window right now. Extremely loud bird.
Very informative, thank you!😊
brilliant now i can tell by the white under feather if its a raven or crow. ravens being brown. I found a crow. its eyes were so blue, i carried an injured crow to animal rescue, its under feathers were so white, i thought it was a heat reflecting thing.
Hello Bianca did it survive
@@rockycoleman2638 oh yes. this was years ago. Animal (native) rescue is pretty good here. (Broken Hill NSW Oz) I've handed in a ground quail even. and a water holding frog. both in my lounge room.
Here in the Pacific Northwest, it's easy to tell a crow from a raven. The raven is much larger and has a deeper call than the two species of crows we have here. Ravens aren't as common and also frequent areas away from civilization, preferring to live in wooded areas, while crows make their living among people in the suburbs thank you very much (they crap on cars).
Hi. I have herd the Australian Raven in Brisbane it’s distinctive.
Are you sure? An Australian Raven even near Brisbane would be extremely rare.
@@cleverbobby Well it certainly sounds like it. But next time I hear it I’ll see if I can tape it. But as you say it would be unlikely.
Awesome video. Thanks mate!!
This video is fantastic thank you so much. I love ravens and magpies. So funny and entertaining if you sit and observe them doing their thing.
I’ve noticed the little raven that hangs around my place has one white feather in his/her tail. Does anyone know what’s going on with that? 🐦⬛
thank you!
Thankyou, loved this. I've often wondered & now I know
Thank you so interesting! Always wondered about this 🖤
For the longest time I was taught Australia only had Crows and it was other countries that had Ravens, I’m really glad to be proven wrong as diversity is always a good thing! 👍
The Australian Raven is the last of the great scavengers and opportunists, very clever, smart and highly intelligent. They may not be well liked, but you must admit, they are a great bird, I seen a You Tube video of one in Sydney opening a sealed plastic container to get at left over food inside and another of an Australian Raven waiting for traffic lights to change so it could skip casually to the middle of two lanes and grab a half eaten KFC chicken leg tossed from a passing car.
I'm in Canberra and have to tell everyone they are Australian Ravens. I think we get little Ravens too
Thank you so much, it's a shame I've been interchangeably mixing the two. At least I know it's an Australian Raven, I miss when overseas and it makes me homesick.
I’ve definitely heard the Australian Raven call in Brisbane
Somebody else saying this here, yet according to official records (and my own experience) that would be extremely rare if ever.
Wow. Grew up thinking they were crows eating roadkill down south. And seeing ravens in America, with their lumped, kinda hooked beaks, it just reinforced my incorrect belief. Thanks!
I was hoping you would identify which Australian corvid species made the deep guttural clicking sound (starting very deep, gradually getting higher pitch, then sometimes dropping at the end). Similar to the American Crow rattle sound.
torresian crows do this, like the Predator, a rattling croak.
Thank you! Now I know they’re torresian crows making a racket in the Gold Coast. Poor things are rapidly being displaced with habitat loss 😢
So where did "Adelaide Crows" come from?
We have heaps of crows in Onslow (I found a dead one and blew on it and it had white feathers haha) but I still don't know if it's a Torresian or a Little!
I. Have many raven in Palmdale California, I love them but I truly have three that are teen age who fellow me all the way home I could them my own way and they come am truly bless
Hi there, thank you for great video of birds. We have found small wattle bird now with us over a month able to fly now. We were wondering when would be best time to release him to wild??
I live in Queensland, and in our backyard there’s this group of 3 black birds with brilliant white eyes that come by almost every day. One is huge, the other one is slightly smaller and the 3rd is smaller still. I’m assuming it’s a family. Anyway, Is it possible they’re ravens? Or is it the crow because it’s Queensland? It’s just these are really big. I didn’t think crows were this big. Is there anywhere I can send a photo to, to determine what the breed is.
We're based on a property with lots of birds! Our ravens, identified by their calls, are mostly blue-eyed, but over in Bendigo, I've seen what I thought was a ravens, but it had yellow eyes. Can you define this please!?😮
Further to above, I forgot to mention we're halfway between Ballarar & Colac, sth-west Victoria!😅
i think there's a very lost torresian crow that shows up some times in the hills
As a Queenslander, I would love to see/hear a raven! Are the pairs more solitary, or do they flock up in as big as numbers as crows?
If ravens are the same there as here, they are quite solitary, living in widely spaced pairs in unsettled territory.
Little Ravens can flock in rural areas, more that Aust. Ravens which I almost never see in groups larger than six or so.
I was surprised when I was in the Gold Coast to hear a raven call that sounded more like the typical call you hear in American movies. I take it that was an invasive species?
thanks for the info. side note: you look -a little- like Colin Firth.
:)
Are there any features in the little ravens that help to identify the gender of the bird? I have a pair that comes down in to my backyard but cant spot any differences. If only it was as easy as looking at the nape of the neck on the family of magpies that come around!
Here in south East Tassie we have a Ravens? These has white eyes or white colour around theirs eyes are these the same species?
All corvids in TAS are Forest Ravens. All five Australian corvids have white eyes as adults, and darker eyes when they're young.
Are ravens found in southwest Florida?
They all sounded the same to me where I can see them outside my window, can't tell the difference how hard as I look or listen. It's like telling if someone speaks mandarin or cantonese, to me they both are chinese! So these crows or ravens are black, and both can named ravens or crows, if anyone has a better way of distinguishing them based on sound, I will appreciate it! :)
Edit: They all sounded like this and as big as this, looks the same, so I'm pretty sure now they are Raven!
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What?! WHAT?!!! Ohhhh... 😂
Can anyone assist me with the following: photos of baby miners and baby mynas? A baby bird unable to fly has taken up residence in anything very warm including my pockets and bed; appears terrified to fly; eats with the beak open wide indicating Mum fed him from her mouth not the other way around (i.e. he did not eat from Mum's mouth). It's gratefully accepted egg yolk from me, although that's not unusual in a baby bird that becomes vegetarian as a adult, water, and just accepted a teaspoon of honey. It chirps loudly for food with beak open, indicating it may be male, but has refused to nominate its preferred pronoun to me (joke!). It's been windy here lately and either he failed first flying lesson or was blown from the nest. P.S. Little thing spends all day asleep in warmth unless disturbed, surfacing loudly only when hungry.
Quoth the Raven "FAAARRK!!"
they're all the same to me ngl
I'm still calling them crows..
😂
Is this to say the pair of crows I’m starting to make friends with who roost in the tree on my nature strip in inner suburban Melbourne are not actually crows but ravens? Well stone the crows!
I gotta go find a crow with a yank accent - just so I can take the proverbial...