I can't be completely sure about this - those southern ravens do sound
different than my local ones...but in May, I'd expect this to be a family of
fledged ravens. The young are often quite raucous and excitable - whether a
parent bird showed up with food, or something else disturbed them
Mark Phinney
on 11/29/08 3:35 PM, Dan Dugan at wrote:
Here is a recording of screeching I heard on a May night at Pinnacles
National Monument in central California:
http://www.dandugan.com/downloads/NS050515_PINN_Screeching.mp3
I suspect it's raccoons quarreling, but then some of the sounds sound
like a raven. Raccoon raiding a raven's nest?
-Dan Dugan
"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
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