Corvus coronoides

Australian Raven at Red Hill, ACT

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Identification history

	Corvus coronoides	11 Mar 2018	ChrisDavey
	Corvus coronoides	5 Mar 2018	RodDeb

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6 comments

MichaelBirdBoy wrote:

6 Mar 2018

Rod, please confirm that bird is holding something ‘white’ (snail or?) in its bill, and that the white on right shoulder is an lighting artefact. Michael

RodDeb wrote:

6 Mar 2018

Hi Michael,
the bird is holding something in it's beak looks like an insect. Have added a crop of the birds head.
The White on the shoulders is just lighting, it is also on the back of his leg.
The bird was all black.
Hope this helps.

MichaelBirdBoy wrote:

8 Mar 2018

Rod, it does, and seems to show hackles on throat consistent with your I’d. But any chance you’ve a side photo of throat as my screen resolution (or my eyes?) not up to being 100% certain about the hackles on throat. Michael

RodDeb wrote:

9 Mar 2018

Hi Michael,

sorry just got the one shot and it flew off. It was a Raven and it was all black.

MichaelBirdBoy wrote:

10 Mar 2018

G’day Rod, Understand. I’ll leave it to Chris to make a call (pun intended as I assume with something in it’s beak it didn’t call) as to whether to accept as ‘coronoides’ (Australian) or decide not clear enough there isn’t a chance of ‘mellori’ (Little).

RodDeb wrote:

11 Mar 2018

Thanks for your efforts.

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Sighting information

1 Abundance
5 Mar 2018 11:27 AM Recorded on
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Birds Other Birds Magpie or larger RodDeb

Species information

Corvus coronoides Scientific name
Australian Raven Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1388.4m Recorded at altitude
323 images trained Machine learning
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