5/24/2023 0 Comments Bernd heinrich raven![]() ![]() Heinrich writes with an eloquence that combines confidence and awe: "Feelings of comfort with familiarity could motivate bird migrants to sustain their long arduous journeys, bringing them back over thousands of miles, year after year to the very same bush. There is a centerpiece of valuably illustrative photographs. The book is impressively designed, the text punctuated with excellent little drawings. Ravens behave in the same manner with polar bears, large cats and other predators - and sometimes, famously in history and legend, with human hunters. There is evidence that ravens locate potential kills for wolves. They are known to have attacked reindeer, lambs, seal pups and other large animals.Īn "ancient evolutionary history" between wolves and ravens has led to their being called "wolf birds." Wolves will kill an animal, rip open the carcass (which ravens cannot do) and eat only the choicest bits of it, then move along quickly to kill again, leaving the bulk of the flesh to ravens and other animals and birds. They eat heavily from dead animals, but they also kill - birds, small animals. ![]() Most crows are very social and band in large groups, but ravens tend toward lone pairs. ![]() As a woodsman myself, I can say with confidence that he makes the sensory experience of being in the wilds extraordinarily real. ![]()
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