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Common Raven

Corvus corax
CORA · Corvidae · Crows, Jays, and Magpies
Urban provisional · from species
1,105heard

The common raven (Corvus corax), also known as the western raven or northern raven when discussing the raven at the subspecies level, is a large all-black passerine bird. Found across the Northern Hemisphere, it is the most widely distributed of all corvids. There are at least eight subspecies with little variation in appearance, although recent research has demonstrated significant genetic differences among populations from various regions. It is one of the two largest corvids, alongside the thick-billed…

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mean confidence
45–48 in wingspan

Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)

Common Raven
Drow maleCC BY-SA 4.0
1,105Detections
53Days heard
0.76Mean confidence
1 AugFirst heard
27 SepLast heard
12,132Stations worldwide

By hour of day

00061218

Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.

Recent days

26 Aug 27 Sep

Daily counts. Seasonal bars replace this once there is a year of records to draw them from.

Where heard

At home1,103 detections
On outings2 detections

Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.

Where it lives

Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.

Leaflet · CARTO · range polygons from BirdWeather

Recordings

Highest-confidence detections first. Confidence is a threshold, not a probability of being correct.

2026-08-12 08:22
9 s
0.99
2026-09-06 08:17
9 s
0.99
2026-09-05 12:42
9 s
0.99
2026-09-19 07:38
9 s
0.99
2026-09-06 08:14
9 s
0.98
2026-08-08 07:55
9 s
0.98
2026-08-30 12:47
9 s
0.98
2026-09-20 17:25
9 s
0.98
2026-09-05 08:19
9 s
0.98
2026-09-19 11:48
9 s
0.98
2026-09-19 11:47
9 s
0.98
2026-09-06 08:14
9 s
0.98
Station PUC-29278 on BirdWeather Data updated 27 Sep, 1:00pm Archive