Australian Raven may be a candidate for splitting.

["Cas Liber" <>]

http://www.graemechapman.com.au/cgi-bin/viewphotos.php?c=671&pg=1

Wow Graeme, they do sound different - sort of like coronoides on helium.....
Cas




-----Original Message-----
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 On Behalf Of Graeme Chapman
Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2012 6:16 PM
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Subject: Australian Raven may be a candidate for splitting.


Hello Steve,

Thank you for your post on Birding-aus concerning the possible splitting of
the Australian Raven.

I worked with Ian Rowley and was involved in all the field work on the
Australian corvids in the 1960s. When we relocated to the Helena Valley lab
in WA in 1969 all that research had finished, but we naturally maintained an
interest.

Basically what we believed is listed on my website under Western Raven and
has been for some time. The so-called gap on the Nullarbor is tenuous at
best.

I'm glad to read that the New-England race of the Forest Raven (basically my
discovery) is just that. There have been those who have suggested it is
specifically distinct, people who have never studied corvids in the field.

Regards

Graeme Chapman
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