What is the Difference Between Crows and Ravens?

[@stevekieffer1394]

A crow has seven pinion feathers. A raven has eight pinion feathers. It's a difference of a pinion.

[@Doxymeister]

Well done, sir, well done!

[@goldielion-s7f]

Is that a crowdad joke?

[@stevenA44]

LOL!🤣

[@drivebye2709]

🍺

[@josephgaviota]

@@goldielion-s7f _Is that a crowdad joke?_ Thankfully, _not_ a crawdad joke.

[@diannemartino3464]

My husband saw kids throwing stones at a black bird that wouldn’t fly away. Afraid he rescued him, he realized it was a young raven that couldn’t fly. He brought him home, made him a cage and we named him Edgar. When running around the back yard flapping his arms didn’t teach Edgar to fly, he put Edgar on the bottom drawer and his food on the floor. Edgar learned to glide down to his food by starting at the lowest drawer and moving higher. Once he learned to fly, we would let him out of his cage. He would eat with the horses. Watermelon rind was his favorite. He would also fly up to the overhead wires and sit there with his crow friends. He was the big bird in the middle with the crows around him. One day there was a terrible storm like you can only have in Southern CA. We were both at work and couldn’t get home to get him. He disappeared. We missed him a lot. One day the Santa Ana winds started to blow. And there was Edgar sitting back in the wire surrounded by his crow friends.

[@discodragons3]

I'm more worried about the kids throwing the rocks at the crow... They can hold a grudge

[@leecowell8165]

You may wanna have a chat with those boys (because I know it wasn't girls doing that).

[@BillytheKid213]

​@@leecowell8165 pfff ok. Who cares

[@BillytheKid213]

​@@discodragons3 raven not crow ahahah

[@discodragons3]

@@BillytheKid213 bro thinks he cool You're not

[@aldyzero6676]

One thing both Crows & Ravens agreed upon: They always remember the humans who saved them or being friendly with as they will always repay your kindness, and they also remember grudges against humans who hurt them.

[@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131]

I've never interacted with ravens. But crows I know. They all have their own personality. Just like people... When you befriend a crow, he remembers you. Even if he hasn't seen you for half a year.

[@Hynotama]

Don’t be surprised if these birds bring you a piece of raw meat, possibly rotting. They consider that as an appropriate gift. Or something shiny.

[@7owlfthr]

Indeed! I saved a fledgling crow who was standing guard over his dead mother in the center of a 4-lane street diring rush hour back in the late 90s. We fed him &cared for him and he would daily walk up the some f our back yard and take short flights. Oe day while we were gone he disappeared altogether. However, every year at about the same time he would return and spend a few days around our house, perchedcloseby & looking at us while caring at us. We would feed him and rejoice at this wonder of human-crow interaction!

[@TheRealCheckmate]

@@7owlfthr I've seen crows attack pigeons, just like hawks do.

[@SailBale007]

I wonder what set “The Birds” off in 1963?🤣

[@joeholm4591]

two crows sitting next to each other is an attempted murder.

[@dsxa918]

Joeh Olm says "1996 calling, will you accept these charges?" In his own way. So cute

[@kelleemerson9510]

Does 3 make a conspiracy to murder? 😂

[@mariuszmoraw3571]

​@@kelleemerson9510attempted assisted murder? 😂

[@bluntube]

🤣

[@legitimatehuman1220]

The same can be said for all marriages.

[@nineblackgoats]

Also, crows will politely ask for food. Ravens will park themselves in your lap and look straight into your eyes as they eat the other end of your sandwich. Speaking from experience.

[@mariuszmoraw3571]

That didn't sound like "asking". 😂

[@nineblackgoats]

@@mariuszmoraw3571 Most entitled bird I ever met ngl. A true main character.

[@raceyrache8463]

@@mariuszmoraw3571sounds like you mixed up between the crow and the raven 🤔. Clearly stated that the crow would ask politely and the other won’t. Wonder what bird they were describing?

[@tsr7198]

Not my sandwich. I happen to be more protective of my food than a raven is hungry. It would end up being MY next meal if it attempted to steal a bite.

[@deadcatbounce3124]

I think it was having an internal debate about your eyes, if you follow my meaning.

[@gardencompost259]

Up in the mountains of Colorado, in the town of Fairplay, ravens are abundant. It’s windy in Fairplay, and the ravens love to surf the wind like humans surfing waves. It seems to me that the ravens are having fun, enjoying the challenge. They do barrel rolls, crazy dives and swoops. When the ravens get tired of playing, they hit the dumpsters of restaurants. Not unlike us humans, a tasty meal after a great day at the beach.

[@pholdway5801]

Thanks for that. I have seen seagulls using strong winds that way too. It keeps them over their home turf as well. Territory infringement is a fighting offence.

[@claybadger]

For some reason I believed this video would help me tell the difference. Silly me.

[@cpamfly6858]

Ha ha. Did you watch the whole thing? I gave up after five minutes and gave it a thumbs down for being clickbait. I really don’t care about the names of all the different crows species across America, Europe, and everywhere else.

[@EKA201-j7f]

A Raven looks like a Crow on steroids. Their beak is much larger and curved, very black and pretty impressive looking. That might help.

[@moniqueengleman873]

Same here😂😂

[@rthompsn2007]

@@cpamfly6858 I found it interesting anyway - and if you did go to the end, it did give some distinctions.

[@Driver-ur9mf]

This is not the old crow society I was looking for.

[@SMtWalkerS]

We have ravens where I live, and they are BIG. A visitor called them "Flying black labrador retrievers". So smart, too.

[@mjinba07]

On the northern U.S. border, I watched a handful of Common Ravens playing in the stiff wind of one winter day. Temps were hovering around -25°f. Dives, hovering, swooping around each other, touching feet, barrel rolls... it went on for quite a while. I finally had to get back to work but they were still playing. Then one summer day while crossing a big, empty parking lot I heard a Raven talking to itself. It was just walking around by itself there, muttering the most remarkable sounds - vocalizations, clicks, whistling, cackling, and croaks and gurgles. Fantastic birds. Ravens In Winter is a great book, published back in 1989, for anyone really interested. It's got a lot of interesting info on biology and behavior.

[@YvetteArby]

@mjinba07 Thank you for sharing this! It sounds like getting to watch a raven documentary but irl!

[@Randomwesternredneckguy]

On a stormy day on the Oregon coast about 10 years back, I saw 4 ravens taking turns diving into a steep canyon in the face of 60mph winds. They performed the most acrobatic stunts in flight I've ever seen from any bird species. It was clearly apparent that the birds were playing and having a great time of it.

[@baddad3469]

Bernd Heindrich came out with another book, "Mind of the Raven", another GREAT read.

[@Doxymeister]

Many years ago, when we were stationed in Germany, we lived out in the neighborhood around the military base, and an old German farmer used to plow the field in front of our apartment using a team of draft horses. My hubby had the car, and I needed to get some groceries, so I loaded the children up in the pram, and proceeded down the path through the field to reach the commissary, a frequently used shortcut. Leaving my apartment, I noted that the farmer's field was absolutely coated solid with ravens, evidently eating whatever he'd planted there. As we stepped onto the walking path, every raven stopped what it was doing, and turned to stare at me and the children. They followed me with their eyes, and stayed silent, until I finally stepped off the path onto the paved road next to the commissary. I don't mind telling you, the Alfred Hitchcock movie "The Birds" flashed through my head as I struggled to remain calm, LOL, it was quite unnerving.

[@weaksause6878]

In Sierra Nevada, raven that lives near me loves snow. Every storm hes flying laps up and down the street. Fluttering about like a butterfly, not flying with purpose. Bouncing off tree branches just to shake the snow lose and he continues on his way. Vicarious fun

[@johnnixon4085]

A crow is a bird with a beak. A raven is a beak with a bird.

[@mariuszmoraw3571]

Yeah, it's funny how big ravens beaks are.

[@theaquariancontrarian3316]

😂😂😂

[@sonnydayz2118]

Lol

[@DocHogan]

Best description ever

[@johnnixon4085]

@@DocHogan Yes, it is. I wish I'd said it first!

[@williamsporing1500]

I love the crows that live around my house. Beautiful and rowdy. And don’t forget, crows are smarter than a lot of people.

[@williamwalker8107]

A lot of animals are smarter than a lot of people.

[@zaphodrahja]

I saw a crow at the park inspecting a white plastic bag laying on the ground with something in the bottom of it. Instead of trying to get inside the bag or pecking at it he/she calmly went around to the back of the bag, picked it up and shook it, out fell the food and a snack was enjoyed. That showed good problem solving skills.

[@pholdway5801]

Higher in the pecking order you mean ?

[@deltavee2]

And their face recognition software is excellent, even after periods of years. They literally do not forget a face especially if the are done a kindness or harm.

[@pholdway5801]

@@deltavee2 Yes,. this i know from experience. I am a fan of food sellby products at the local super. I like products that i can share with birdlife. There are two that follow me home having great hope of human generosity. The pair get within feet

[@tammy5654]

I never bought into the old fables and superstitious about crows. In my lifetime experience with them, I have nothing but admiration, respect, fascination, and complete LOVE for crows & ravens. I find them quite interesting, intriguing, loving, and lots of fun. I love all birds, but crows and ravens are my ABSOLUTE FAVORITES. Always a pleasure to see, hear, and interact with them. ❤️❤️🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🥰🥰🙂🙂

[@theobserver9131]

Humans actually used to be more stupid than we are now. I feel the same about Crows and Ravens! Their call sends a thrill of joy through my body. I wish I could fly with them. Maybe next life.....? :D

[@theobserver9131]

When crows show up in my dreams, they are not black, they are silver, and they have iridescent eyes.

[@marcgambone4240]

Last year i kept hearing someone say "hello?" Outside my moms house.....it was a damn crow!!! Unbelievable but true

[@polymathematics5837]

Where do you live? I taught a wild crow to say "Hello" in Arlington, Washington. Does your mom live nearby?

[@dcfromthev]

They want food, go on and make friends already! They remember human friends incredibly well. I know a pair who I only see once a month or so, and they remember me and fly above my car and follow me hiking circling overheard. It is amazing!

[@joyfullydreaded1371]

​@@dcfromthevYup! They even are known to bring "presents", like colorful stones, bottle caps, and so on, to their hooman friends.🖤🐦‍⬛

[@TenaB-j2l]

Crows and ravens are related to the mynah bird and can easily mimic human speech and many whistles and tunes. Bluejays can also mimic any whistles and tunes that inspire them and even say one or two words.

[@marcgambone4240]

@@polymathematics5837 Pennsylvania! Weirder things have happened than a crow making that distance....like a talking crow

[@dangilmore9724]

I've got a pair of really pushy ravens in my yard in North Carolina. Once they figured out I wasn't a threat and might have food for them, they literally will land and perch on me. The crows are even more pushy. All in all, crows and especially ravens are fun birds to have around if they choose to interact with you.

[@drewpknutz1410]

be real, these birds arent "Pushy", you are out there feeding them and they are taking advantage..lol

[@dangilmore9724]

@drewpknutz1410 Well, they did figure out how to get a human to feed them. Once ravens and crows trust you, you've got friends that go out of their way to hang out with you.

[@mhd7832]

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[@hansen666]

i miss my crow he fell out of a tree so took him home as he got bigger i thought he would just fly off but he stayed with me for 10 years then pasted away....i named him russell

[@morganoverbay8783]

Snort! 😂

[@ThomasELeClair]

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,i would have done the same................................

[@TonySpike]

Im sorry ....he "pasted" what?

[@impunitythebagpuss]

Better Russell than Jim! 😂

[@rashadclayton9091]

Rip Russel

[@tylerpacker6047]

The amount of times this video showed ravens for crows was unforgivable.

[@Pub2k4]

Watch the labels. See how many times they don’t even say the species name that they’re displaying on screen.

[@cpamfly6858]

@@Pub2k4 I gave up. It was a waste of time to hear species of crows all over the planet when I really just wanted to know how to tell them apart from ravens. I felt like a fool for biting on this Clickbait.

[@weaksause6878]

​@@cpamfly6858Size

[@Azubrael]

@@cpamfly6858 I agree, this video was starting to get annoying

[@cpamfly6858]

@@Azubrael And I'm proud to see America support Ukraine. I have personally donated thousands to their cause. It is right and just to defend democracy and western nations. That's part of what it means to be great, Azubrael! I like how that rolls off my tongue! Your handle is like an incantation.

[@YourOwnWay]

The narrator sounds like Elmer Fudd went through speech therapy

[@waynejohnstone3685]

Pretty sure this is an ai generated video. These are almost unwatchable.

[@LucVNO]

@@waynejohnstone3685 yet here you are. Its just a tool, its always been the idea which is valuable, not the work. This video exists because someone thought to create it, regardless of its method of creation.

[@andrerodon3921]

LOL!

[@Pub2k4]

@@LucVNOWell, it’s a poorly executed idea. Just watch the labels on screen

[@MD-yp4qc]

😂

[@statickaeder29]

Hmmm. I heard (admittedly many years ago) that the raven is the largest song bird, and that one of it's calls is a knocking - I heard this call myself. Which gives Edgar Allen Poe's raven an additional way to knock at the chamber door. A thing about crows (though I wouldn't be surprised if ravens do this too) is that they remember people who are good to them, and especially people who are bad to them. If you shoot or throw stones at crows, they will remember you and harass you.

[@joyfullydreaded1371]

Yup. Crows have been known to bring their hooman friends presents like colorful stones, bottle caps, socks and so on.

[@MaterMultis]

My local ravens have been very friendly. In fact they wait for us to feed our chickens food scraps they fly to our chicken enclosure and strut around with the chickens in the exact way they do and feast with the chickens. We once had a bobcat on our property. The ravens came out in full force swooping it and screeching. We ran to find the bobcat scampering off. Once our sheep pushed their way under the fence and they came to my window squawking to get my attention. Sure enough the sheep had almost made it out to the road. They're my friends but still afraid of me. They let me look at them through my window but not get too close. When I was in the garden working they sat on the power line and they called me mom exactly in the same singsong voice as my children. I looked up at him and he flew away. We nick named them Benedict and Scholastica both Catholic saints who had ravens and when Scholastica died Benedict knew because he saw her fly to heaven in the shape of a raven.

[@ZEEKUPP]

When I have turkey hunted, the forest ravens would imitate female turkey calls to try to get male turkeys to gobble. Crows and ravens also remember who is nice or mean to them. I find them refreshingly awesome.

[@kickerofelves85]

They can supposedly remember human faces for like 5 years. And even more than just remembering who's nice and mean to them, they can also pass that grudge on to their offspring. Basically you could make enemies or friends for life.

[@ThomasELeClair]

.............................when i get a chance for a bird [wild] to hear my voice ,,,,,i say ,,, i see you,,,,,,,,i see you there ,,,i see you there.................I luv wildlife............

[@kman5475]

You have a hunting partner! I'm guessing you field dress the birds you shoot--those ravens know you'll leave them an easy snack, and are more than happy to help you any way they can! Be kind to them; interspecies hunting is a magical thing. There is another species of bird in Africa (it may be a type of Corvid?) that will lead "hunters" to wild beehives filled with honey, for similar reasons. They make a specific whistle to alert their human partners, fly off in the direction, and repeat the process until they've reached their goal together.

[@DamonNomad82]

@@kman5475 The bird in Africa you mentioned is called (appropriately) the "honeyguide". It leads humans and other honey-eating species to beehives so that they can take the honey and leave the wax and the bee larvae for the honeyguide to consume.

[@mhd7832]

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[@PendeltonWhiskey]

I grew up in a very small town in the eastern Oregon desert. When I was about ten years old my older brother came home with a young Raven. My mother loved animals and we had plenty of them and the Raven was welcomed into the family. We named him Edgar and kept him in a cage and fed him raw liver for a few days and then we let him lose. He was free flying after that and flew all over town but came back to our backyard to tell my mother he wanted more liver and she always obliged. He was full of personality. He loved being in our backyard when if was full of kids playing and having fun. He loved that vibe. I'll never forget the time when the kids were all playing and I looked up and saw him sitting on a tree branch, looking down at the festivities and laughing. There is nothing like a Raven laughing. He was obviously loving what he was seeing. I've thought about that moment my whole life. I was just a kid and didn't realize it at the time but as an adult I later realized that I was the one that he bonded with. I remember a game that we played. I would be sitting down and he would be standing on my knee and he would swallow one of my fingers and gobble it down his bill as far as he could and then he would sit there with my finger in his mouth and look into my eyes while I just sat there staring into his. I was trusting him to not hurt me and he was doing the same because if I had reacted and violently pulled my finger out of his mouth I could have easily harmed him. So we just sat there staring into each others eyes trusting each other and bonding. I saw a video on youtube a while back of a man who had a Raven and this raven also gobbled the mans finger and he held it while the man put his arm down to his side and walked with the Raven hanging from his finger. Apparently this is a little known 'thing' that Ravens do.

[@PendeltonWhiskey]

From the backyard, Edgar knew the moment my mother turned towards the refrigerator to get some raw liver for him. He would be outside getting excited and making lots of noise and jumping around several minutes before the back door opened and my mother appeared with his liver. I'm convinced that Ravens are connected to the supernatural world and he knew exactly what was going on in our kitchen. Ravens are prone to mischief. This is because they are very intelligent and need mental stimulus to avoid boredom. He was all over town and I'll never know everything he was up to but over time we heard about some of his activities. He loved to swoop down and take hats off of people's heads and he did that all over town. Unfortunately our little blonde frizzy haired neighbor girl became a favorite target because apparently her hair looked like a hat to Edgar. I saw her running down the alley towards her house screaming and waving her hands in the air fending him off quite a few times. He loved to pull lose shingles off of roofs and drop them into the flower bed. He did this to our next door neighbors old house and I suspect he did the same thing all over town. He loved to go to the truckstop a couple of blocks from our home and he would strut back and forth on the outside ledge watching customers eat their pie. He was very popular there. But he wasn't popular at the nursing home. Ravens have an instinct for death, and Edgar knew which patient was on the verge of death and would perch on their windowsill and stare at them. Not good.

[@theobserver9131]

@@PendeltonWhiskey The bad thing is pulling shingles off of roofs.... I love ravens and crows, but if one started pulling shingles off my roof, we would have problems. I would have to set up prank shingles to scare the crap out of it. I would not mind one of them informing me of my imminent death. The Reaper keeps fine company!

[@PendeltonWhiskey]

@@theobserver9131 I'd like to think that he was just pointing out to the homeowners that they needed a new roof. A raven couldn't pull a shingle lose if it were nailed down properly

[@larrys6111]

It might be fine to mention the historical association of crows and ravens with death, bad luck, etc., but this video goes further and contributes to these birds vilification with, e.g., its spooky background music. These amazing birds are intelligent, social beings. End of story.

[@em0_tion]

Yeah, the music was a little over the top. I wanted to learn more about crows, not strain myself with this ominous ish. 😂

[@marleneclough3173]

For centuries the night was feared as it was believed that spirits were about at night. So the dark was feared and so anything black. Of course times have moved on but still a lot of superstition about black creatures. So sad apparently black cats and dogs are the last to be adopted. Yes black cats superstition also

[@joyfullydreaded1371]

I personally don't mind the spooky lore associated with black animals as I see beauty in the ominous, dark side of the world. But I do hate it as well for the killing and shunning of these beautiful pets and wildlife.

[@Tentegen]

Yeah. Corvids are so cool and unique in their intelligence. If you KNOW about corvids, upu know it would be AWESOME to make friends with them. One older lady had some corvids she made friends with at her house. One day, her neighbors heard an unnatural ruckus with the flock. They know they hang around the neighborhood......but this was different. They were cawing and all sorts of stuff near her back yard. They went back there to see what was going on and that's when they had found that she fell and couldn't get up. They saved her life that day. One guy I saw in an Instagram reel found and nursed a little corvid back to health. Let's just say it was so greatful and stayed with him to where the video ends with the bird bringing him a gift of someone's money. Corvids are cool as heck. They don't deserve spooky music. They deserve to be recognized for the intelligent goofy jackasses that they are. They're the only "prey" animal that will harass raptors just cause they VERY LEGITIMATELY find it funny.

[@Martin.Wilson]

I can testify first hand at what absolutely incredible mimics ravens are. When I lived in BC, the local landfill was miles from the nearest small town. This is where the local raven hangout was and they imitated EVERYTHING they'd heard. On one of my first forays to the landfill, I was freaked out when I heard a baby crying and then it just as quickly became a chainsaw. Way too weird.

[@kirabowie]

I had a very strange encounter with a crow. I was walking home from work, in fact I was heading towards the end of the block to turn on my street, when I noticed a crow was flying with me. When I looked at him, he flew between the houses and I thought he was gone. He "met" me on my street a few houses away from mine, looked me in the eye & I swear Time stopped! And then he just flew off. After that whenever I hear them cawing, I always say hello back.

[@silverbackag9790]

You got abducted. Search out the Owl Guy.

[@bluntube]

Of course, cuz crows, and ravens too, they can remember faces. Can be friendly with verbally likewise friendly two legged non winged crows (us).

[@feedingravens]

I feed small pellets of minced meat, 1-2 grams, just two at a time. (several times a day) They LOVE it. As it is really just one pair (and their children) it might even be ravens. That is not even expensive, 20, 30 grams of meat is financable, The only nasty thing is when you have to turn a kg-clump of minced meat into hundreds of small balls, by hand, and they must all be frozen individually before coming into the box. Then you can grab them easily out of the fridge.

[@ralphdailey9503]

I've had crows follow me like that several times. One time I was eating some potato chips when a crow was following me and decided to drop an occasional one for it to eat. Before long, other crows joined it and I had a whole flock of them following me.

[@kirabowie]

@@ralphdailey9503 That is sooo awesome!!! 🙂

[@eddypuentes6155]

Crows and ravens are smart and very interesting social birds. I find these creatures fascinating. I don't understand why anyone would be afraid of them. When you consider the fact that they can say words just like a parrot can. I see them as nothing but very intelligent opportunistic parrots with not so curved beaks and Jet Black Panthers legs and overall appearance.

[@jeffyeley9344]

While working in Prudhoe Bay, on the North Slope of Alaska, with a wind chill of 70 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, I saw dozens of Ravens. These are huge birds ! We called them "Coal Tar Turkeys". I could never figure out what they ate, where the found water to drink, and how they survived the cold. The sea was frozen to a depth of 8 feet. At the temperature, it is very difficult to breathe. You should look into the Inuit Indians "the Eagle & the Raven". They play a large part of their cultural identity and especially their beautiful artwork.

[@theobserver9131]

The Inuit's tube-like face opening in their coats probably helps with the breathing, even though they're rebreathing their own CO2 laden breath. I grew up in Minnesota. That was way too cold and dark for me. I moved south as soon as I became an adult. Florida felt like I was violating a law of nature; warm and sunny all year long! I seriously can't understand people who live in the cold and dark. I respect them though! I've since compromised and loving the Virginia hills....and Crows and Ravens live right next to me! I get to hear their beautiful calls every day!

[@theobserver9131]

It's not uncommon to see Eagles here also. Some of them "Bald" Eagles. Lots of Hawks too.

[@richjageman3976]

Crows go "caw caw caw" and ravens go "nevermore"

[@rwatson2609]

@richjageman3976 Ravens here on the North Western coast of North America can make some other worldly sounds. There's this one that I see quite a bit that makes a techno digitally enhanced drip type of sound that I swear came from a piece of sound effects equipment, but he mainly makes the regular raven sounds, but definitely the weirdest sound in the forest.

[@richjageman3976]

@@rwatson2609 It was a joke

[@TLowGrrreen]

Chris Robinson is highly offended!😂😂😂

[@katarinatibai8396]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@joyfullydreaded1371]

​@@richjageman3976But what he said ain't wrong. Ravens and crows are excellent mimics of speech and sounds.

[@emilstalzer8553]

I have free range chickens and ducks and the wild crows around the farm are great at keeping birds of prey away from the farm they have never harmed my birds ,I have not lost a chicken or duck since . I leave a crack corn out for the crows as a thank you

[@caroleschroll1438]

That worked really good for me too.

[@futuretimetraveller8677]

what's 'a crack corn'?

[@markr.1984]

They forgot about the Fish Crow, which is slightly smaller than the common crow and found in Florida and other southern states, nearly always by water. They don't make the loud "caw" but are quite vocal at times. They are also gregarious like common crows.

[@BertramG-oz4nu]

What about the hooded crow

[@alexemery2993]

I think Ravens are so freaking cute and smart. I wish I could have one has a pet.

[@QueenofArgyle2525]

Me Too:) love smart birds❤

[@deepgardening]

@@QueenofArgyle2525 A friend of mine who drives for UPS found a fledgling crow in a driveway, being stalked by a cat. He adopted it, and the bird developed quite a vocabulary, especially enjoying showers in the kitchen sink

[@jackiegood3686]

Love them both. They are quite intelligent and can problem-solve multilevel problems and even incorporate tools in that problem. More so than a lot of humans.

[@mylittlepitbull3143]

I have some Crow friends. I started feeding them on my walks with my dog. Photo on left. He's extremely jealous. But the crows follow me around on one crow in particular will come up to me and take food right out of my hand. It's my buddy and it waits for me to take my dog for a walk so it can get some treats. Sometimes it's even waiting for me before we get there and it flies right down and will land on the hood of my car and stare at me. I've grown to view these crows as friendly and intelligent and loyal. I'm not in the area anymore but I do miss my crow buddy.

[@wolf.eye._-]

They're good little buddies for sure. My mom always makes friends with them.

[@finerbiner]

Never heard anyone say, "pied crow". They are, "Magpies". Also, they are not all black and white. The wings are iridescent blue and the tail is iridescent green.

[@madoxxxx06]

I think the pied crow is African, we have lots and lots of them in Rwanda and they are the size of an eagle. One of the most prevalent birds here.

[@fredhughes4115]

Growing up with my farmer father, I always thought of magpies a just a nuisance to be gotten rid of. Much later in life I observed a magpie and was surprised by how gorgeous it was.

[@shoofly-mx1]

When I was a kid back in the early 60's in Texas people were having a problem with their new fangled garage door openers opening their garage doors for no reason at all times of the day. Turns out mockingbirds were mocking the transmitter's frequencies and opening them by accident.

[@BrettL250]

I have always wondered about the difference. Well done. Thank you for the video.

[@AL00ZER]

Ravens typically say "nevermore" where as crows do not

[@brettarendze7202]

Destroys Crops= Ravens (Raven effect) Protects Crops= DDT

[@markwriter2698]

Thank you

[@joshoconnor6684]

Theres a raven around my friends place that mimics an ambulances siren. We hook him up with food and he comes back

[@markr.1984]

In Utah we have Ravens out in the rural and desert areas and fewer in cities. The crows we have make the loud "caw" sound and are almost always in larger towns and cites, like Salt Lake City. Our Ravens are either solitary or out and about with their mate. The only places I've seen Ravens congregate in large numbers is Yellowstone and other large parks. They are big enough and soar well enough from a distance they can look like raptors until you get close and see they are all black.

[@mhd7832]

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[@chimom7112]

There was a pair of crows that would wait for me to come to work every morning. When they saw my car, the male would fly down and land on the roof of the carport i would park under. I would bring him food and it would take it, caw at me and go share it with its woman. Theyre so smart. Knew my car.

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

Apparently she's a cheap date.

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

By any chance, were their names Jim and Sheryl?

[@kickerofelves85]

I'm kinda surprised he never brought you anything back. They've been known to make friends with people and "exchange gifts" with them.

[@chimom7112]

@kickerofelves85 I've heard that. Nope just fed them for a long time until I left that job. Felt bad tho that I couldn't tell them I had to leave.

[@kickerofelves85]

@@chimom7112 yeah that does kinda suck, at least you got some up close face time with them tho. Supposedly, they can remember faces for 5 years so if it has been less than 5 years they may remember you still. I've been wanting to make friends with a crow for the longest time now!

[@bradbradford8576]

It's totally true that some crows are actually shape-shifted witches. There's a witch that lives in my neighborhood and comes by my house every day. I feed her roasted peanuts in-the-shell, and in exchange she once brought me a big ol' mushroom but usually she just yells spells at me. I think she's still new to witching, though, because nothing unusual has happened yet.

[@phaedrussmith1949]

Unless the spell being cast is to keep anything unusual from happening.

[@QueenofArgyle2525]

😂

[@bruceallen6492]

Both are friendly, smart and enjoy life

[@hoangthinhle-m2x]

Great content! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@MarcusRefusius]

No mention of Ravens flying inverted I don’t know if Crows do that or not. One summer when I was driving a big Truck daily, there was one particular Raven that would fly along for a stretch going around Kaweah (Kaweah is a Yokut word meaning Raven) Lake and would invert a couple times while doing it. Did it pretty much every day for much of the summer. No idea why, but appeared to be having fun. We live just outside Sequoia National Park and have a pair of ravens that visits every day. I’ve never seen a Crow that I’m aware of East of Terminus Dam/Kaweah Lake. But there are large numbers of them west of the foothills.

[@fukkitful]

I've seen videos where they were clearly goofing off flying. They were reenacting their favorite scene in Top Gun. Crows will lead 2 cats to one another to instigate a cat fight. What makes the video even funnier is how one of the crows is trying to watch the fight from really close. He stays around 12-18 inch away even though they a moving around a large area. He was loving it.

[@pholdway5801]

A Raven inverted ? That has nevaR happened

[@MarcusRefusius]

@@pholdway5801 Searh it on the internet. It’s not an uncommon behavior.

[@Elvis-m3i]

A crow at my job did fly up in the sky and did a barrel roll on the way down. So cool to see. Those birds definitely have fun flying around.

[@coyotech55]

In Arizona and New Mexico, lots of ravens. I love the ravens ... and the crows. The ravens love to come out and play on the wind as a storm is blowing in. The ravens and hawks hunt the same areas and fly in a similar way, but of course the ravens are black and the hawks are brown, which is the quickest way to tell them apart from a distance. We have crows, too, but I think a lot more ravens. Once I was working outside, and a crow was flying around the area. Suddenly he swooped a little lower and pooped on my head as he went by. I don't think that was an accident! Once I was driving on a residential road and saw a crow sitting in the middle of the road, not flying away as my truck approached. I stopped and got out, picked him up and took him home. He was very calm. After awhile of perching on my shoulder, he flew off. Maybe it was somebody's pet ... or maybe just because they're so smart.

[@theaquariancontrarian3316]

Such beautiful creatures. Theyre hilarious to watch and very intriguing.

[@indyreno2933]

Actually, the Corvus genus is polyphyletic, the genus is now restricted only to the ravens, while all thirty-eight extant crow species now belong to the genus Necrophagus and the rook is now relocated to the monotypic genus Rucus, based on here there are now thirty-two extant genera of corvids.

[@denisemadigan1038]

I'm sorry, I can't seem to find the translation??😮

[@seivernoname-tz9uh]

Convergent evolution. It turns out only Ravens are part of the Corvus groups, while all the others are other types of birds that evolved nearly the same way, kind of like how bats fly, but arent birds, they just also evolved down a similar path

[@indyreno2933]

@seivernoname-tz9uh, nope, recent studies show that ravens and crows are respectively monophyletic groups, with the Corvus genus now being restricted to only the ravens while crows now constitute a separate genus, which is the genus Necrophagus, to be fair, there are now thirty-two extant genera of corvids: Pyrrhocorax (Choughs), Platysmurus (Black Treepies), Temnurus (Ratchet-Tailed Treepies), Crypsirina (Racket-Tailed and Hooded Treepies), Dendrocitta (White-Bellied, Andaman, Grey, Occipital, Ashy, Collared, and Rufous Treepies), Cissa (Luwuyas), Urocissa (Lanwuyas), Perisoreus (Wahuhikoga Lineage), Oreocorax (Zeyrozes), Cyanopica (Husonyas), Podoces (Ground Jays), Garrulus (Golden Jays), Nesocitta (Lidth's Jay Lineage), Ptilostomus (Black Jay Lineage), Zavattariornis (White Jay Lineage), Gymnorhinus (Pinyon Jay Lineage), Aphelocoma (Scrub Jays), Calocitta (Magpie-Jays), Cyanocitta (Crowned Jays), Psilorhinus (Brown Jay Lineage), Cyanolyca (Black-Collared, Turquoise, White-Collared, Beautiful, Silvery-Throated, Black-Throated, Azure-Hooded, White-Throated, and Dwarf Jays), Xanthoura (Inca and Green Jays), Cissilopha (Yucatan, San Blas, Purplish-Backed, and Bushy-Crested Jays), Cyanocorax (Plush-Crested, Black-Chested, White-Naped, and Curl-Crested Jays), Cyanocorone (Cayenne, Azure-Naped, Purplish, Violaceous, and Azure Jays), Lophocorax (Tufted and White-Tailed Jays), Nucifraga (Nutcrackers), Rucus (Rook Lineage), Coloeus (Jackdaws), Pica (Magpies), Corvus (Ravens), and Necrophagus (Crows).

[@unluckycharms9017]

I understand everything you’re saying but I’ve been studying wildlife biology since i’ve had memory. If you’re actually trying to provide valuable information to random people on the internet, maybe do it in language that people that aren’t wildlife biologist will even start to understand lol.

[@kellymiller7986]

This comment is complete misinformation. There are zero references in the scientific literature for these new genus names. The only link I could find is to a Reddit discussion, where the comments referring to these genuses has been removed for being misinformation.

[@waynejohnstone3685]

Pretty sure this is an ai generated video. They’re almost unwatchable and end up in a mess like this.

[@williamcolbert7828]

I think YOU are the only one that is unwatchable and has ended up in a mess! Better start going to your A.A. meetings again!

[@Pub2k4]

@@williamcolbert7828So you didn’t think the way the narrator blew through “Corvus Tasmanicus” at 5:29, and how it didn’t match the words on the screen, was odd? Because when the data on screen doesn’t match the data being said, it’s pretty freaking odd…

[@cpamfly6858]

@@williamcolbert7828 I agree with Wayne. I gave up after five minutes. I wanted to know the difference between ravens and crows. I didn’t want to know all of the different species of crows all over the world. The video is unwatchable. I gave it a thumbs down. It’s Clickbait. It’s a waste of time for me.

[@cpamfly6858]

Ha ha. I commented regarding my agreement with you.

[@666BIGBLOCK]

Good info. And you’re a crappy video critic.

[@dnasbirdingadventures]

Thanks! I always have trouble distinguishing the two. I'm looking forward to watching more videos. New subscriber here!!

[@differous01]

Odin's ravens have names, and in 3D representations Huginn (Thought) and Muninn (Memory) are depicted flying straight from his head, stylised like horns, with their beaks interlocked as in conversation (crows can mimic human speech). An injury to one hemisphere of the human brain effects conscious Thought, the other unconscious Memory: we experience their interaction as consciousness.

[@1celloheaven]

Spent a lifetime questioning the difference between Crows, Rooks, and Ravens...now I know...what a relief. Thank you !

[@petervanderwaart1138]

The Crow population here in Connecticut was dvastated by West Nile.

[@calirose2860]

To ❤ a crow or raven is to understand them..i once heard a bunch of ravens making a lot of noise up in a nearby tree..i always thought they were rading nest and possibly sometimes they are..i went outside to see what all the noise was about..apparently the ravens were protecting their nest and calling for help..other ravens heard the call and also came..within a few minutes, a hawk flew out of the tree and several ravens followed behind...this made me realize not only how intelligent these misunderstood creatures are but they're willing to help other ravens, risking their own lives..how amazing are they! ✨️

[@mhd7832]

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[@troyclayton]

For over a decade I thought I had crows all around me, here in far southern Maine. I'm a plant guy, and I was wrong. I now know thanks to the Merlin app (thanks Cornell!)

[@terry_willis]

Some commenters thought this video was click bait because they still don't know the diff. between R and C. I found the video to be very detailed and complete. Maybe more detail than many wanted, but altogether a good description for the layman.

[@RachaelMorgan-om4xw]

Not condescending at all, you pompous ass 🙄

[@WeezieV]

9:03 he finally begins the comparison.

[@woodwwad]

The parking lot I usually sit in has a lot of ravens and/or crows in it. I always pay them an offering of food - Odin be praised.

[@diane1390]

When I lived in what was then Death Valley National Monument, but is a national park, we had all sorts of ravens. They loved taking the lids off of the garbage cans, and scattering garbage everywhere. They finally put weights on top of the lids.

[@tobhomott]

@8:47, Maester Aemon has never looked younger/healthier

[@2stixlz]

Was wondering if anyone else noticed. Lol.

[@KoljaWolfi]

had to scroll for ages to find a comment mentioning it

[@jeremygold6331]

Only found this comment after I posted it too.... here's your thumb 👍

[@BrianM-li3sf]

For roughly the last 40 years or so my sister and I have had the same two ravens come and locate us multiple times of the year They absolutely remember people and are actually very protective and social

[@doktormcnasty]

One of them crows 'nevermore' and the other doesn't.

[@cpamfly6858]

The one that crows never more is named Edgar.

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

Correction. That particular raven never crowed. What an insult! No, my friend, it quothed.

[@jamesotisjr2322]

I have watched ravens fly square patterns on a windy day. This demonstrates a knowledge of geometry and vectors.

[@itzybitzyspyder]

There's a pair of American Ravens in my area. The male has a damaged beak...like an inch of the top and bottom is gone. I feed the male sometimes. The male usually watches out while the female forages.

[@user-zk8ed4kd2b]

Very interesting material. I enjoyed the video. Thank you.

[@danmel3978]

Crows are tuff, you see them missing legs and beak broken off and they seem alright despite their handicap

[@Nancy-hy5so]

Im probably one of a very few that loves the crow call I don't find it annoying at all but relaxing. When I went camping they would always wake me up very early hover above pine trees waiting for scraps when cooking on a campfire. So the next time I went camping I went to the local feed store or hardware store that sold bags of corn and sunflower seeds and a bag of bird feed. I waited till they would wake me up and before I started my breakfast I threw some of those that I bought and they didn't waste time swooping down to get what they could. After everything was gone they made that call and it was as if they were saying thank you and flew off. I started my breakfast and threw scraps down but I guess they were full. I started to miss them and the calls after they flew, but the next time I look forward to seeing them again. Hope they are doing well.

[@mybachhertzbaud3074]

The only difference I know is that I see crows quite often. Yet the Ravens I see "Nevermore"😜

[@chuckoaks6756]

A raven call before sun up during hunting season is part of the tradition.

[@PLODay-bk8ws]

The beaks of crows and ravens are noticably different, but another difference is that the raven has an extra tail feather. You could say the difference between the birds is "a matter of a pinion."😏

[@pavlovsdogman]

Crows are a little smaller and tend to look less smooth and more ruffled? That's one way of differentiating?

[@qqqvid]

Very informative vid : ) x

[@candlewick96]

Crows "Caw!" Ravens "Rock!"

[@kylewilliams6090]

🤔🤔🤔🤔 interestingggg

[@Missglam67]

I love crows and ravens. They are very smart birds. They can be trained and they learn very quickly by simply watching. They are natural problem solvers.

[@rhondatrout1360]

Both crows and ravens are "THE WATCHERS OF HUMANITY"!

[@myscreen2urs]

And cats. Crows, Ravens and cats🙃

[@judywhaley5092]

Ravens are great mimicers of sounds too. They can purr like a cat or make a clicking sound, similar to when we click our tongue at the roof of our mouths with our mouth partially closed. Very cool!

[@spacemanpope]

I love these birds. So beautiful.

[@infoanorexic]

" C'mon, Bird Brain, haven't got all day!"

[@5shotsr611]

I have a pet raven, he's pretty old. Sharp as razor

[@johnjones1873]

They live as long as parrots do....which is about 60yrs

[@sirseigan]

Vikings held _Ravens_ (on: Hrafn) as manifistation of aspects of Odin. The hooded crow (on: kráka) on the other hand mostly seen as a flying rat in the Nordic country and the Magpie (on: skjór/skjær/skjir/skade/skattu) as a loud mouthed theif. Mostly Americans have a hard time telling "crows" and "ravens" apart. They are all black in America and the term "crows" are not specific as for example "kráka" in old norse. Where I am from the "crows" and "ravens" behave and look very different.

[@AlmostEthical]

Good video. I never understood funky collective names for animals. As far as I'm concerned, crows and ravens group in flocks. They don't deserve pejorative collective names. I've never been swooped by a crow. They seem content to go about their business a safe distance away from humans.

[@mjinba07]

I knew of someone who'd been aggressive with the crows around his yard. He hated them. Oddly, his car started getting hit with a high frequency of bird droppings. Even when it was parked at workplace. Just his. No one else's.

[@AlmostEthical]

@@mjinba07 That is so smart on a few levels. Corvids are a force to be reckoned with. Fortunately, bird mobs don't charge much protection money :) I hand feed magpies, fill the bird bath and toss scraps, so I never have bird trouble.

[@YvetteArby]

@@mjinba07Me too: my ex husband. His car, parked right next to mine, got bombed by bird doo. I also noticed that when we were out together, all the crows would start caw’ing like the world was ending. When it was just me, nothing. Later, I read that there was a study at University of Washington (aka UW or U dub) that showed that crows recognized peoples’ faces and they would similarly do alarm calls when someone they feared showed up, but not other people. Corvids are so intelligent!! ✌🏼💖

[@playgroundchooser]

In college, I had a magpie that I would hang with most mornings. He'd talk to me through my open windows. In the evenings, I'd often see magpies in a group around the park across the street. If I walked over with a treat, one magpie would swoop over and take it from my hand or hop over and let me feed it to him. 😍😍 so cool!

[@playgroundchooser]

​@mjinba07 you should check out the crow experiment done at a university a while back. They had people walk around in clown masks and be mean to the crows or ravens. The crows were still vengeance targeting clown masks YEARS later, even the new generations that had never seen the masks before! 🤯

[@dennisyoung4631]

“Nevermore,” said the Raven… Be glad there aren’t any two-headed examples…

[@toddler4082]

Let's get right. "Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'' "

[@rthompsn2007]

or three-eyed.

[@stephanierando3477]

Dont make him say it again

[@rthompsn2007]

Very cool and informative. Two issues: notice in the scene at 2:12, none of the birds are flapping their wings at all - these are turkey vultures, not crows. The shape is very distinctive. Again, at 9:40 we are looking at gulls, not ravens.

[@mplsfarmer]

So, you have to get through most of this video before it answers the title question about what is the difference between crows and ravens (starting after time stamp 9:00 minutes.)

[@ticholopeluche]

Thanks XD

[@joyfullydreaded1371]

Sad that this never mentioned that Crows and Ravens can mimic speech and sounds. There's an island in Canada, Prince Albert Island or something close like that, where all the Crows on the island can say "Hello!"! Scientists believe that one bird had befriended a male hooman and he always said "Hello" to the Crow and would give it food, especially once it learned to mimic back to the hooman. That Crow then went around "teaching" the other Crows a new way to get snacks. Very intelligent birds! Whispers behind me hand: I still love Ravens more though, js. 🐦‍⬛🖤

[@WeezieV]

Cool. I will look this up on KZbin. Thanks!!

[@eschwarz1003]

different Corvids; equally awesome

[@tinkmarshino]

Thanks.. I still have a hard time sometime distinguishing the two.. But this helped with the beak and tail feathers difference I might just be able to tell now.. Carry on..

[@acebrown1527]

Thank you for this video

[@rogerrendzak8055]

"Adding ravens to a cemetery, is a popular trick among directors, of cheap horror flicks". What about the top-notch directors, of top-notch, horror films🤔??? "Irish, and wealth mythology"??? Could you possibly mean; 'Welsh'??? Besides that; this was a very informative documentary, on said differences👍☺️!!!

[@Stettafire]

Genuinely why the creepy music, also if you have any respect for your time you'll just skip to 3:00

[@yanivabraham]

Exactly! You just wrote what was on my mind starting to listen to this.

[@hanselmansell7555]

This is great, thanks lots from 🇬🇧

[@salsamancer]

I don’t mind crows unless they’re crying their horrible caws at 05:30

[@mhd7832]

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[@rodolfobonfil8207]

Here in Mexico we don´t have a word for raven. We would call them "Cuervo" that is the same word we use for crows, however, we have smaller birds also corvids from the genus Pica spp. that have a black to brown-ish color we call "Urracas", where there´s no common name for that bird in english (not that i know of) and that is because they are not so present in North America. For example in the northern states of Mexico the chipmunks are called "chichimokos" which is a vague english version of that word.

[@Doomzdayxx]

Hawks are the ones I don't like just because the only reason they don't try to eat me alive is because I'm 10x too big.

[@caroleschroll1438]

Keep your crows well fed and they kill hawks.

[@andaros8449]

These birds are so beautiful and so intelligent. I love them!

[@KaiPonte]

Good video! I'm watching this and thinking about my poor son's cockatiel. At about age 4, the cockatiel decided he (probably) didn't like me. He spent much of his time perched on top of his cage. On an infrequent basis, he'd fly outside. Generally, he'd land right outside the door and we'd pick him up and bring him inside. This one time, my son came in and left the slider open. I came in right after. The cockatiel saw me, screeched, and flew at me. He then flew outside and landed on the roof of our next door neighbor. next thing I saw was a crow grabbing the cockatiel and tearing him apart. My son - 8 years old at the time - was very upset.

[@SheilaStarks-j6x]

Ravens are huge. I saw them for the first time ever, during my visit to the Grand CANYON.

[@markrumfola9833]

Good Topic 😊

[@albaltic966]

Thank you for the info.

[@Nilguiri]

11:02 I thought he was going to say, "If you live on the east coast of the US you're more likely to encounter a murder."

[@brianc9642]

Opportunity missed.

[@skyybluu3118]

Great video thank you 👍🏻

[@original_pranxter]

Gotta love ai generated vids

[@gaddaitherage8204]

I always have a fascination for crows and ravens due to the mystical ideas surrounding them. When I went to Hokkaido they were everywhere. They were large, and they will perch on the telephone wires. Man-- when they take a dump, better not stand underneath them. It’s watery and it hits the ground like someone emptied out a bucket! Magnificent animals though.

[@garyleibitzke4166]

Growing up in southern Wisconsin many local corn farmers used to pay a $1/crow bounty for every crow you shot/killed on their farm. Earned some good money while a teenager.