{"id":264,"date":"2024-01-27T23:34:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T23:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2024-01-27T23:35:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T23:35:50","slug":"ravens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/2024\/01\/27\/ravens\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PXL_20240127_201706903-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PXL_20240127_201706903-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PXL_20240127_201706903-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PXL_20240127_201706903-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PXL_20240127_201706903-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PXL_20240127_201706903-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I spotted a pair of ravens flying together in circles today! The image above is the best I could get with my phone. They were very high up. I heard their call earlier (in fact I kept thinking I might have heard a raven for weeks now but wasn&#8217;t sure) and used the Merlin app on my phone to try to record and ID them. It was frustrating. I kept missing them and I wasn&#8217;t sure what direction they were in. Finally, hours later, I got them! None too soon&#8212;my phone was getting low on power. (It also recorded some chickadees that were nearby at the same time.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"654\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-654x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-654x1024.png 654w, https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-192x300.png 192w, https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-768x1202.png 768w, https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-981x1536.png 981w, https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I switched to a video recording and shot that before they moved out of sight. <\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/zXc9AGQ2ops?si=PCpazDRZV6f1DQL-\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is faint but you can make out the croaking call in the video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is a link to the Merlin app: <a href=\"https:\/\/merlin.allaboutbirds.org\/\">https:\/\/merlin.allaboutbirds.org\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ravens are notable because of their cultural importance and their intelligence. There is far to much to go into here. I&#8217;ll just place a link to a Wikipedia article section on their intelligence. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Common_raven#Intelligence\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Common_raven#Intelligence<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted a pair of ravens flying together in circles today! The image above is the best I could get with my phone. They were very high up. I heard their call earlier (in fact I kept thinking I might have heard a raven for weeks now but wasn&#8217;t sure) and used the Merlin app [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,16],"tags":[46,45],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-wildlife","tag-birds","tag-ravens"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PXL_20240127_201706903-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/floyds.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}