Canku Ota |
(Many Paths) |
An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America |
December 16, 2000 - Issue 25 |
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Raven Tricks Crow |
Shared by Ojilaka ZicaHot'a at Native American Tales and Legends |
Raven
used to live high up in the upper Skagit River country. He was very lazy. In the summer when the other animals
were busy gathering food for winter, he would be flying from rock to stump and stump to rock making fun of them.
Raven just laughed when Crow (his cousin) urged him to follow Squirrel's example but Raven never prepared for the
cold months, when the snow would drift over the ground and cover all the remaining food. Print and Color Your Own Picture of the Crow |
The
Common raven (Corvus corax) is any of several species of heavy-billed, dark birds, larger than crows, of the genus
Corvus, family Corvidae (q.v.). The common raven (C. corax) is the biggest passerine bird (member of the order
Passeriformes); it reaches a length of as much as 66 cm (26 inches) and has a wingspan of more than 1.3 m (4 feet).
(Some magpies and the lyrebird are bigger than the raven in length but are smaller bodied.) Although it looks like
a crow, the raven has a much heavier bill and shaggier plumage, especially around the throat. The raven's lustrous
feathers have a blue or purplish iridescence. In the white-necked raven (C. cryptoleucus) of western North America,
the base of the neck feathers are white. Other species of ravens, some with white or brown markings, occur in Africa,
southern Asia, and North America. Common
Raven Raven Also
belonging to the family Corvidae (order Passeriformes), crows are smaller and less heavily billed than most ravens.
They are named for their typical call: "caw" or "crah." More than 20 of the 30 species of the
genus Corvus are known as crows, and the name has been widely borrowed. American
Crow |
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