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Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Ravens in courting flight
| Raven | Ronk or kaaren | Corvus corax |
The clever ravens are sedentary birds in Estonia; they don’t change their mates and the pairs keep together throughout the whole year. During a couple of weeks courting behaviour is active, repairs are made on the nest or the need of building a new one is revealed. Egg-laying generally starts in March.
Raven black means that it is difficult to find a “more black” bird – the feathers, the powerful beak, even the eyes and feet are all black. The plumage has a metallic, iridescent sheen and the tail is wedge-shaped. The population in winter is more than twenty thousand birds; the winter guests prepare, little by little, to move north- and eastwards. Around five thousand pairs stay to breed in Estonia.
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