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Corvids in America are pretty similar. Very annoying and intelligent. On the other hand, can be pseudo-trained. Great birds.

• aussiesnack 4y ago
  Similarly, Australian Ravens are great. Characterful and bright. The young have a great sense of fun and are entertaining to watch. I have seen them playing a game of chase round the garden, play-fighting over a prized mango leaf. Adults are oddly risk-averse given their heft. Smaller birds seem able to intimidate them quite easily.
  • mellavora 4y ago
    old bush pilots, bold bush pilots. Not sure what is odd about risk-aversion. How many times have you been injured?
    • aussiesnack 4y ago
      Odd by comparison to the smaller magpies, currawongs, blue-faced honeyeaters & noisy miners that can so readily shoo them off. They're pretty shy with people too, which isn't true of many common urban birds. Though that shyness may have quite separate origins (humans being what they are and all that). I wonder if it's a behavioural strategy somehow related to their carrion-scavenging niche.