That's exciting Trileigh!,

Your photo certainly is a Raven. I have never seen one in Lincoln before
(and you know I have spent a good deal of time there.). I know that there
was a pair breeding on Mercer Island at least a couple of years ago. I
don't know their current status on Kitsap, Bainbridge and Vashon across the
sound. Ravens are rare in Seattle, but it seems to me that there have been
an increasing number of Raven sightings in the city of Seattle in the last
decade. I suspect they are slowly becoming more adapted to more urban and
suburban areas here as they have long been in other parts of their global
range.

-Stewart Wechsler

----- Original Message -----
From: "Trileigh Tucker" <tri at seattleu.edu>
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 11:27 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] Raven status in Seattle? + Lincoln Park


> >From my birding guidebooks, I get the sense that ravens are rare in
> >Seattle.
> Is this still the case?
>
> I've occasionally heard deep "quork"s in Lincoln Park, West Seattle, that
> sounded raven-ish to me, but knowing how easily I can come to
> optimistic-but-wrong interpretations, I've been hesitant to conclude that
> the large dark birds actually are ravens.
>
> However, on Wednesday I finally got a reasonable photo of one of these two
> birds. It sure looks ravenish to me, diamond tail and all. Could someone
> comment on (a) whether this is indeed a raven, and (b) how common they are
> these days in the Seattle city limits
>
> Here's the photo:
> www.flickr.com/photos/21030079 at N06/3202178974/
>
> Thanks much,
> Trileigh
>
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> Trileigh Tucker
> Lincoln Park, West Seattle
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