Buzzard desperately tries to defend his meal against a group of annoying ravens, while a magpie lurks about unmolested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9tQ0k3LK70

Up vote for the raven totally owning the cat. Looks like it even goaded the cat to come out onto the limb so it could safely mess with it.

Smart raven is totally fucking with that pussy.

Crows and ravens are so stinking incredibly smart. They're going to be a big help once the robots become self-aware.

Side note: If you're unaware, groups of those birds are called a murder of crows and a nightmare of ravens.

I love that.

Thanks

Rather embarrassingly, I had watched and upvoted that vid already... and yes, it's a Raven. I've even changed the tags and title.

I can only go with the information I have, and not being familiar with your local crows and ravens, googled them

The pages I found said that you tell them apart by tail (shown, but unclear), size (not shown), and habitat (too lazy to look up). None of them said to differentiate by head shape of beak.

Conspiracy theory? No... Going with information supplied with video? Yes! Unless provided with snowmen or reindeer to the contrary. Possibly mistaken? Certainly!

That's the funny thing. We're both looking at the same thing but seeing different things. To me that's much more a wedge shape than a crow's short and straight.

But more importantly, the underside of the tail in a frame or two from an angle isn't as telltale as the up-close-and-personal HD view of the birds beak and head from multiple angles.

There's no question about how "ravenous" they are, and you're still not expressing any thoughts on those features.

You're avoiding all the clear evidence pointing to the obvious, indisputable truth, and hanging on with a death grip to the only slim, inconclusive evidence that you claim supports your unlikely theory. (Are you a 9/11 and moon landing conspiracy theorist?)

In the words of Elsa, let it go... Let it go! Can't hold it back any more. Turn away and slam the door already because here I am in the light of day. And you know what? The cold never bothered me anyway.

Here's a screenshot of his tail when he flies off - http://imgur.com/2lCjdR9

Compared to the two photos on the link above, it's not obviously the nice wedge tail of a raven.

But then, I'm not an expert, and the the ravens around here are different - the Australian Raven has a tail like the American Crow, although he's much bigger.

To me the shape of his tall, hook-nosed beak and his large, bulging forehead suggest he's definitely a raven. (Plus, it's a bad angle to examine his tail, but that also looks to me like a raven's.)

Begging your pardon, good sir, but I do believe that's a raven we're looking at, not a crow.

"Never more."

This article over at Truthout is a rather interesting read, albeit a bit long:

We're riding a global engine of ravenous resource consumption. We all know this can't go on forever, but the thought that it might come to a stop is so terrifying to all of us that most of the time we just want to live in denial.

Biologists are learning that corvids -- crows and ravens -- may be more intelligent than parrots. I sometimes wonder why no one has suggested marketing crows as pets -- they could probably easily adapt to our environment as they are everywhere in our cities. They could probably even be trained by law enforcement for useful work.

http://videosift.com/video/Nevermore-Talking-Raven-is-sort-of-Creepy