Crows and Ravens - What's the Difference?

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Crows and ravens are different species, but they're in the same genus. The main things to look for is ravens are about two and a half times the size of a crow. If youre lege out and you see a crow and you go, that is the biggest bleep ble crow i've ever seen, it's probably cause it's a raven. Crows have more sort of squared tails, versus ravens have this really distinct, wedge shaped tail. And on a raven, we call those special feathers hackles, and they articulate them and use them in a lot of visual behavior displays. But personally, i think the vocal repertoires of ravens ae

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