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I am the Tricksey Raven! Native Spirit to all of the People. Call me a crow and I’ll peck your eyes out! -stupid crows are stupid- I am a teacher, a trickster, a messenger and a speaker. I am All-Bird! I am Super-Bird!
Can you trust my advice? Who knows! That’s the fun of it! So ask away! Ask Away!
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talking ravenJulian is an unreleasable Raven living at Horizon Wings Raptor Rehabilitation And Education Center. He was found as a fledgling with a badly broken and infected wing which left him flightless. He stays at our center as an educational animal. xxx.horizonwings.org
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Or visit http://djwnews.info/raven/talking-raven/
“Some native tribes refer to them as the ‘keeper of secrets’. They are linked to the void, where universal secrets are kept. Obviously, their black colour is the colour linked to darkness, the place where unconscious fear resides. Ravens are master magicians and represent transformational energy, revealing to us how to rid ourselves of our inner fears. Raven will show you how to go within in yourself, into the dark areas and then illuminate them, making you ‘sparkle’ and bringing out your true self. Inner conflicts should then be resolved, however long buried they are - this is the deepest healing.”
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I will never get over how beautiful these birds are… even tho everyone hates them and calls them rats..
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Really guys? Awwww.
You’re making my feathers go all tingly with warm feelings.
Tail Feathers?
Ravens have wedge-shaped tails and crows have fan-shaped tails. When you see the bird flying overhead, you can often get a good look at the shape of the tail. (Drawing by Jenifer Rees. Courtesy of WDFW.)
Did you know?
Species include:
Extinct:
cat+ raven=caven … pro :D
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! no!
FLY MY FLOCKS! THIS INSULT CANNOT STAND!
If you’ve ever read Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, you might have pondered this question in the past. Just why is a raven like a writing desk?
Here are a few answers to that most mysterious of questions:
But what did Lewis Carrol have to say on the subject? Well, he was adamant that there was no answer - that the point of the riddle was to be nonsensical, and it had served its purpose as such. But of course, this is the land of make believe, so you can believe whatever you want!
Last updated at 8:35 AM on 30th November 2011
Ravens ‘point to’ objects to attract each other’s attention in a similar way to humans, research has discovered.
Until now, it was thought the only animals which communicate this way were apes.
But a study by German and Austrian experts revealed ravens to be far more intelligent than previously thought.
Clever: A raven on Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. the birds have been observed to use objects to point and share, like humans do
They observed wild ravens using their beaks to show and offer each other objects such as moss, stones and twigs.
The birds, which belong to the corvid family with crows and magpies, made signals using their beaks as if they were hands. The experts likened this to the way very young children point and hold up objects as a way of saying ‘look here’ or ‘take this’.
The gestures were mainly between ravens of the opposite sex and helped them become closer. The ravens that attracted a potential mate using them often ended up ‘sharing’ the object with their friend.
The study’s author, Dr Simone Pika, of the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, said it was the first evidence ravens use gestures ‘to test the interest of a potential partner or to strengthen an already existing bond’.
Dr Pika added: ‘These results provide the first evidence that ravens also use so called deictic gestures in order to test the interest of a potential partner or to strengthen an already existing bond.
‘We observed that ravens use their beaks similar to hands to show and offer objects such as moss, stones and twigs.
‘These distinct gestures were predominantly aimed at partners of the opposite sex and resulted in frequent orientation of recipients to the object and the signallers.
‘Subsequently, the ravens interacted with each other, for example, by example billing or joint manipulation of the object.’
Birds of a feather: Interaction was mainly between ravens of the opposite sex and helped them become closer by sharing the object
Dr Pika said that ravens are songbirds belonging to the corvid family like crows and magpies, and they surpass most of the other avian species in terms of intelligence.
He said: ‘Their scores on various intelligence tests are similarly high than those of great apes.
‘Ravens in particular can be characterised by complex intra-pair communication, relatively long-time periods to form bonds and a relatively high degree of cooperation between partners.
‘Gesture studies have too long focused on communicative skills of primates only.
‘The mystery of the origins of human language, however, can only be solved if we look at the bigger picture and also consider the complexity of the communication systems of other animal groups.’
