anyone think it's time for a Raven hunting season??

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I know it's banned, but I know that if they opened a season i would be buying turkey loads by the case and calling them in to try and shoot those darn things as fast as i could..

They are very smart. So after a season or two they might wise up, but i really hate those things.

They used to be on the bases and if you had a pack sitting out, they would fly in peck into the [unopened] MRE in a pocket and eat the main meal right out of the pouch without getting into the rest of it.
 
I have lived places where they could be shot, but I would never shoot one.

Amazing birds !! 9,000 feet up on an alpine ridge, glassing for sheep and a pair will drift in from behind on the thermals and just hang there within feet of your face. Then they wheel on the wind and flip upside down and put on a real aerial acrobatic show.

They have also alerted me to game on many , many occasions.

They get pass from me.
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We sure could use a Raven Season around here. There are thousands and thousands of them now.

Not to far from where I live there is a communication cable on poles that are about 20 ft high. The Ravens come in and roost on this cable right at dark. There is easily 5,000 to 10,000 of them that roost on this cable during the winter nights. All of these Ravens come in from all directions in group sizes from 2 to 20. I recorded some Raven sounds for Foxpro from this area. I watched them come into roost many times, what I thought was very interesting was they all were silent when they got within a mile or so of the roosting cable. It looks like they are smart enough to keep quite in the area they are going to spend the night.

This above ground cable is very close to the highway I use to drive to work early in the morning. It was pretty cool to look towards the cable when there was a big moon out. I could see thousands of Ravens only about 1 inch apart for 4 to 5 miles along the highway.

They are so smart hunting them would not wipe them out.

When I worked on the North Slope in Alaska in January, February and March of 1983 I only saw two living creatures in our camp yard. Ravens and Arctic Foxes. It was 30 degrees below zero or colder with very little daylight and there the Ravens were.
 
A while back the local paper ran an article about ravens playing a large part in the declining sage grouse population.
 
I was hunting with TT in eastern NM and there is so little brush and trees out there that the ravens would build nests fro pieces of broken barbwire, they made great nests until the wind blew them off the power poleand they land on the wire knocking out the power to a bunch of folks.

Barbwire nest on a power pole. this pole was abandoned but there were nest on live poles also.



eastern NM we parked behind the stock tank and used the power poles in the distance to lean against for a stand I killed a male out there the brush looking stuff is cactus.



Another shot of the country side, I believe there are 4 coyotes out there somewhere.

 
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Originally Posted By: Oregon310A while back the local paper ran an article about ravens playing a large part in the declining sage grouse population.

In the Mojave Desert the Ravens kill and eat baby tortoises. They have found Raven nests with lots of dead baby tortoise parts under the nests.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-tortoise-20170310-story.html

I found a Raven nest on a old idle oil well pumping unit many years ago. It was made of about 50% twigs and 50% Llama hair. There was some corrals with 8 to 10 Llamas in them about a 1/2 mile away.
 
Wish I could remember details of the recent story.
It had something to do with ravens and problems with a local rancher also near a very expensive sage grouse recovery site.
The rancher told me that the feds originally told him "no ravens here" but revised that and placed some clever traps around.
Just can't recall if he said they were kill sets.
 
Originally Posted By: derbyacresbobOriginally Posted By: Oregon310A while back the local paper ran an article about ravens playing a large part in the declining sage grouse population.

In the Mojave Desert the Ravens kill and eat baby tortoises. They have found Raven nests with lots of dead baby tortoise parts under the nests.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-tortoise-20170310-story.html

I found a Raven nest on a old idle oil well pumping unit many years ago. It was made of about 50% twigs and 50% Llama hair. There was some corrals with 8 to 10 Llamas in them about a 1/2 mile away.

They also do a number on the quail broods.
 
Originally Posted By: sandy hicksRavens or crows? Whats the difference? Self erecting targets around here. I keep my 204 handy for shots across the pasture.

Our state game pamphlet has a description defining the differences. We have a designated crow season.
 
Originally Posted By: sandy hicksRavens or crows? Whats the difference? Self erecting targets around here. I keep my 204 handy for shots across the pasture.

Ravens are much larger birds than crows and can be easily distinguished when flying because Ravens have a round tail and crows have a square one.
 
Ravens have a much bigger head than crows do and Ravens beaks are much thicker and heavier than crow beaks are.

Ravens have a slower wing beat than crows do.

Ravens are protected by the Federal Government and crows can be hunted during the crow seasons in many states.


Check out the above link.
 
Here in AZ we have a lot of Ravens, and they came in lots of times when I would use the wounded rabbit call. It's a [beeep] not being able to pop them. They should open a season on them.
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Originally Posted By: Oregon310A while back the local paper ran an article about ravens playing a large part in the declining sage grouse population. they steal the eggs that is a fact.
 
I've always wondered how they affect a stand. They come in, squawk a bit and thenot, leave. I wonder if the Coyotes notice and use them as an early warning system.
 
Originally Posted By: LazerusI've always wondered how they affect a stand. They come in, squawk a bit and thenot, leave. I wonder if the Coyotes notice and use them as an early warning system.


i have noticed if a raven comes, does an overhead circle and then just flies off there is not a coyote seen.

on the other hand, if a raven shows up and circles and circles, makes a lot of racket, acts excited and is generally not quite acting like a raven usually does that there is a coyote in the area and i will see it.

what am i trying to get at? heck if i know.
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