KEVIN MCGOWAN [dated Dec 19, 2014]: The data from the New York State Breeding Bird Atlas show a huge increase in ravens across the state.
CLARA MACCARALD [dated Dec 19, 2014]: Why was the northeast so different? “There's a lot of historical stuff that goes into it,” explained McGowan. “Here it was mostly a question of guys with guns and changing the habitat so drastically.” To English settlers in particular, crows and ravens were seen as varmints to be shot on sight, while many settlers in the southwest had a different heritage. When eastern forests became fields and pastures, ravens had few places to hide.
Ravens love dumps in places like California and Alaska.
DAVID [dated JUNE 10, 2015]: Over the last five or six years, Common Ravens have been sighted with increasing frequency in New York City, part of a resurgence throughout the Northeast after more than a century of regional extirpation.
JNS , Israel Hayom Staff [Published on 10-16-2019 07:32]: Israeli farmers have been working Naharayim in the Jordan Valley and Tzofar in the Arava for the past 25 years.
