14 March 2025
I’ve seen numerous ravens previously two weeks — 11 in Minnesota, two as we landed at Pittsburgh airport, and one over Aspinwall on Tuesday. When I discovered Vance Crofoot’s 3-minute video explaining raven territories I used to be fascinated.
Right here’s what we discovered:
- Immature ravens spend 3 to 4 years in giant flocks of younger ravens. On reaching maturity, ravens choose a mate and go off to say a territory.
- Grownup pairs show their territorial boundary by flying alongside the border.
- Ravens know their neighbors and can typically fly with them alongside the mutual border.
- Ravens assist their neighbors drive out predatory threats.
- Different ravens usually are not allowed to land in an grownup pair’s territory. In the event that they do they’re challenged.
- When a pair has chicks they aggressively drive out predators.
- As soon as the chicks can fly, neighboring households meet up for “play dates” with their children.
- Kids can also deliver pals residence to play with.
- Juvenile ravens stick with their mother and father for about 7 months. On the finish of that point their mother and father aggressively drive them out of the territory.
The primary touch upon the video factors out how totally different ravens are from crows!
Very informative! It’s attention-grabbing that the intergenerational behaviour is totally different from crows whose juveniles grasp round longer and actively help their mother and father in elevating the subsequent chicks and fledglings. The ravens’ cooperative behaviours are very effectively tailored to their wants and varieties of threats.
— Touch upon the video from @julieprior3126
And why are there so many ravens on this video? Southern California has much more ravens than we do within the East.
