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[arethinn]

I just saw the biggest crow I have ever seen in my life. It caught my eye as it was dodging a parking car by hopping away from it on both legs, rather than walking in a normal gait or flying. I thought "what the heck is that crow doing?" and turned to look at it more closely. It was at least a third again as big as a regular crow and its beak was a different shape and size. Thinking it might be a raven, I examined its tail shape when it finally flew off (it allowed me to get closer than a crow normally would), but I didn't really know what shape I was supposed to be looking for. According to this site, I think it had the more rounded shape of the regular crow, which means it was just a damned big one. It would be odd for me to see a raven around here as I'm not aware that this is a habitat area for them, but who knows.

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[rainman1432003.livejournal.com]

http://www.angelfire.com/id/ravensknowledge/ravensvscrows.html has the most technical about Ravens vs Crows, e.g. size Crows average around 17 inches long, and ravens about 24-27; and wing size: Crows have a wing span around 2.5 ft., and ravens about 3.5-4 ft. Four feet is fairly large. You might have recognized four feet vs two feet. I noticed a couple of sites say that crows are more the size of pidgeons.


Here are some pics also
http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/enlarged.asp?imageID=16958
http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/enlarged.asp?imageID=16957

Very similar. This may not be the case in general, but the raven seems to have a proportionaly longer beak.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

I didn't get a good look at the size as it flew. As it sat on the ground it was definitely large (as already mentioned). I may have seen the same site you did with the pigeon comparison, which sounds ludicrous to me; the crows around here are significantly larger than the local pigeons (I see both every day). The beak shape was definitely different, longer, more curved. Again, though, I had about 2 seconds in which to make all these observations and it's really just not enough data.