".... the lozenged tail of the pseudo- phoenix the lambslayer's
water and golden eye, his breast feathers rusted from long contact
with oxides and bone and his long remiges comfortable with pure air"
--"Lammergeier", Helen Macdonald
Tuesday, July 09, 2013
Random Ravens
This picture Daniela sent of her many years ago in Alpaugh with one of Dan Belkin's ravens promted me to go to Wiki, where I found this pic of a huge species in Ethiopia dining on scraps from a still bigger bird's dinner.
".... the lozenged tail of the pseudo- phoenix the lambslayer's
water and golden eye, his breast feathers rusted from long contact
with oxides and bone and his long remiges comfortable with pure air"
--"Lammergeier", Helen Macdonald
".... the lozenged tail of the pseudo- phoenix the lambslayer's
water and golden eye, his breast feathers rusted from long contact
with oxides and bone and his long remiges comfortable with pure air"
--"Lammergeier", Helen Macdonald
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Lammergeier = Bearded vulture= the ones that take bones up into the sky and drop them on jagged rocks to eat the marrow.
I am raven fan. I hate crows. I think they are annoying and far less intelligent. Ravens, though, have a certain amount of dignity about them.
A few weeks ago, I saw three ravens standing next to a road-killed deer carcass. They looked almost like mourners at a funeral. They were all standing there with their bills down.
I find it interesting that turkey vultures and ravens are never at the same roadkills. They must have an antipathy to each other. I see crows with both turkey vultures and ravens, but never turkey vultures and ravens together.
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