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Ravens ARE dinosaurs. They're bigger than red-tailed hawks, and nearly as big as that snowy owl!
The raven in the bottom row on the left is pulling the tail of a Steller's sea eagle, one of the largest predatory birds in the world (the Harpy eagle is bigger). All flocking corvids that have been studied are tail-pullers. No one's sure why.
The raven hopping on a vulture's back just above the snowy owl is a very rare species, living only in the area of the Bale Mountains in the Ethiopian highlands. The black-and-grey birds are crows, probably hooded crows--the house crow looks very similar but has less black on the head and neck. I think the one to the right of the snowy owl is a house crow.
Someone should put together a post of the jays and magpies, which are kinda the drag queen section of the family! The magpie-jays, genus Calocitta, the Central American group, genus Cyanocorax, and the southeast Asian jays, genus Urocissa, are all spectacularly colorful and very, very smart.
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