How to tell a raven from a crow. Made with corvid researcher Dr. Kaeli Swift for her blog post on the subject!
These are all well and good (accurate and informative and also fun) but here’s the best way to tell the difference between the two:
Ravens are FUCKING huge.
My wife’s family likes to take yearly camping trips and a few years back at one we took a day trip to the town of West Yellowstone. My wife stepped into the McDonald’s there to use the restroom and when she came out, there was a raven in the parking lot and she was like “why is it big enough to carry away a cat?” Because it absolutely was.
