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Oooo, your name is pretty inspirational actually.
I fucking love Corvids. I have since I was a teenager. The word ‘raven’ is in my surname (though most people don’t know my legal surname and think ‘Ravenari’ is my surname lol), and it’s on the coat of arms of our family (either black or white ravens, which is pretty badass). I bought Bernd Heinrich’s Mind of the Raven when I was about 17 years old, and have been collecting books on Corvids and Corvid ethology (animal behaviour) ever since.
I’m a big fan of Kaeli Swift on Twitter, who is a Corvid ornithologist and has done amazing work specifically on like, death and Corvids in particular. (She’s also got a really good episode on the Ologies podcast).
I’ve drawn Corvids way more times than I care to admit, lmao.
As an example! One of the things that actually annoys me most in Perth is that everyone calls our ravens ‘crows’ and they’re not crows! They’re ravens! Specifically Corvus coronoides, the Australian raven. They have white eyes as adults and I adore them.