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		<title>The Australian Raven</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 09:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://critter.science/the-australian-raven/" title="The Australian Raven" rel="nofollow"><img width="300" height="130" src="https://critter.science/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ar1a-300x130.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Australian raven" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" srcset="https://critter.science/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ar1a-300x130.jpg 300w, https://critter.science/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ar1a-800x347.jpg 800w, https://critter.science/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ar1a-scaled.jpg 900w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><p>This article was originally published on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://critter.science">Critter Science</a>.</p>
<p>The Australian raven can be told apart from the Australian crow, and other related corvids, by their long chest feathers, aka throat hackles. They are seen as a pest species of bird, as they are loud and tend to get into situations they shouldn&#x2019;t. They are threatened by humans as [&#x2026;]</p>
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		<title>The Little Raven</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://critter.science/the-little-raven/" title="The Little Raven" rel="nofollow"><img width="300" height="130" src="https://critter.science/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/lr1a-300x130.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="little raven" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" srcset="https://critter.science/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/lr1a-300x130.jpg 300w, https://critter.science/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/lr1a-800x347.jpg 800w, https://critter.science/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/lr1a-scaled.jpg 900w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><p>This article was originally published on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://critter.science">Critter Science</a>.</p>
<p>The little raven hails from southeastern Australia. As is the case with all Australian species of Corvus, the black feathers have a grey base. Their iris is also white on the adult birds. These birds face the threats of habitat loss; persecution as they are often seen as a pest [&#x2026;]</p>
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		<title>The Forest Raven</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://critter.science/the-forest-raven/" title="The Forest Raven" rel="nofollow"><img width="300" height="130" src="https://critter.science/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/fr1a-300x130.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="forest raven" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" srcset="https://critter.science/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/fr1a-300x130.jpg 300w, https://critter.science/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/fr1a-800x347.jpg 800w, https://critter.science/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/fr1a-scaled.jpg 900w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><p>This article was originally published on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://critter.science">Critter Science</a>.</p>
<p>The forest raven, aka Tasmanian raven, is a <a class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="&#60;div class=glossaryItemTitle&#62;passerine&#60;/div&#62;&#60;div class=glossaryItemBody&#62;Any bird of the order Passeriformes that includes more than half of all bird species. Also known as perching birds, passerines generally have an anisodactyl arrangement of their toes (3 pointing forward and 1 back), which facilitates perching. There are more than 140 families and some 6,500 identified species, making the passerines the most numerous of the bird species.Passerines are divided into 3 suborders: New Zealand wrens; diverse birds found only in North and South America; and songbirds.&#60;/div&#62;" href="https://critter.science/glossary/passerine/" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{"attribute":"data-cmtooltip", "format":"html"}]' tabindex="0" role="link">passerine</a> bird in the Corvidae family and native to Tasmania &#38; parts of southern Victoria. These birds face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of residential and commercial development, farming, and ranching; human conflict, in the form of [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>The Chihuahuan Raven</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://critter.science/the-chihuahuan-raven/" title="The Chihuahuan Raven" rel="nofollow"><img width="300" height="130" src="https://critter.science/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/cr1a-300x130.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Chihuahuan raven" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" srcset="https://critter.science/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/cr1a-300x130.jpg 300w, https://critter.science/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/cr1a-800x347.jpg 800w, https://critter.science/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/cr1a-scaled.jpg 900w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><p>This article was originally published on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://critter.science">Critter Science</a>.</p>
<p>The Chihuahuan raven is a species in the family Corvidae. These birds are just slightly larger than the American crow. They hail from Mexico and the United States. Chihuahuan ravens face the threats of being trapped, poisoned, and shot due to their consumption of agricultural crops; electrocution from utility poles; [&#x2026;]</p>
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