Description:

The largest corvid; large, powerful bill with nasal bristles covering half and long throat feathers. From Large-billed, by longer neck, longer and more angled wings with more pronounced fingered primaries, and more markedly wedge-shaped tail. On the ground, stouter bill with straighter culmen, prominent throat hackles and flatter crown.

Distribution:

Widespread resident all over Gilgit-Baltistan, mainly at higher elevations. Extreme habitat generalist, occurring from forests, shrublands and deserts to high alpine steppe and mountains. Generally found in more open habitat, up to 4500m.

Behavior:

Locates food by sight, sound, perhaps also by olfaction at very close distances. Actively scans for carrion, investigates locations, watches foraging birds and mammals for cues; actively hunts from perch, in flight and on foot. Opportunistic scavenger, closely associated with large carnivores, notably wolves, and wasteful omnivores, notably humans. Eats huge variety of animals and plants.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

Distribution Map of Common Raven in Gilgit-Baltistan (Status: )

Seasonal Occurrence of Common Raven

Resources:

Birds of Pakistan: Helm Field Guides (R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
The Birds of Pakistan (T. J. Roberts)
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (C. Inskipp, R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide (P. Rasmussen & J. Anderton)
Birds of India: Collins Field Guide (N. Arlott)
Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan (S. Ali & S. D. Ripley)
Handbook of the Birds of the World (https://www.hbw.com)
The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th Edition
iNaturalist BoGB (inaturalist.org/projects/birds-of-gilgit-baltistan)
Birds of Gilgit-Baltistan (http://fb.me/birdsgb)

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