3 Australian Raven at Symonston, ACT
Identification history
| Corvus coronoides | 21 May 2023 | MatthewFrawley | ||
| Corvus coronoides | 21 May 2023 | RodDeb |
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anyone for golf?
10 comments
MatthewFrawley
wrote:
21 May 2023
I recall this type of behaviour from my youth when I would hit golf balls down at the oval.
RodDeb
wrote:
21 May 2023
Matthew, it must have liked the ball because it is a distance to the Golf course, and it was having fun playing with the ball.
RogerF
wrote:
21 May 2023
We have found several golf balls over the years and our property is at least 15 km from the nearest course (Queanbeyan), as the crow flies of course.
rawshorty
wrote:
22 May 2023
That is a range ball from the driving range across the road from Geoscience. For many Years they would bring golf balls to my place. I would watch them fly up and drop them on the road to try and break them open and peck at them, place them in the bird baths to try and soften them up and when that failed they would bury them in the ground for a day or two. I have not seen them do this for a couple of Years so I assume they have decieded that the balls are not food.
RodDeb
wrote:
22 May 2023
Thanks Shorty, we thought that is where the golf ball came from. We watched this one wander around with it dropping it and picking it up again. It tried burying the golf ball in one place but must have thought it wasn't deep enough so picked it up and wandered off again and then buried it near some bushes where the ground was a bit softer covering it with sticks, grass and leaves. This one must still be learning that it is not food. Was interesting to watch.
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
23 May 2023
In the past I have also found more than a dozen golf balls in my explorations of Tuggeranong Hill & Rob Roy reserves, far away from any golf course or back yard.
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
23 May 2023
I come from Bombala, NSW. I remember when I was young in the 1950's & 60's they used to have a special crow trap in place on the golf course to capture crows to reduce the problem of them stealing golf balls.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.160097-35.343041
- Places Symonston, ACT
Sighting information
- 5 Abundance
- 21 May 2023 12:43 PM Recorded on
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Birds Magpie or larger Other Birds 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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