During this morning’s bird peruse for my GBS count, a flock
of 18 ravens passed fairly high overhead. I could hear some calling and
the calls were all short “croaks”. The birds were flying west over Deakin
and after a while turned south in the general direction of Woden.
The size of the flock and the calls lead me to believe that
they were Little Ravens rather than Australian Ravens. On the other hand,
Philip Veerman’s book suggests sighting LRs over suburbs is not very likely and
that May is a month of relatively low abundance. He also makes the point
that it is easy to mis-identify. The ACT Atlas has very low counts of LRs
in central Canberra.
So I am wondering if anyone else in southern Canberra thinks
they recorded a flock of LRs around 8am this morning.
David Rosalky
