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.


