What Is the Difference Between a Raven and a Crow

I shall confuse these two birds.... nevermore .

Crow: “Who are you?” Raven: “I’m you but stronger”

I didn’t know that ravens and crows hung out together. I assumed all the “crows” in my neighborhood were just different sizes due to age. Now I realize a good number are ravens. Thanks for the education. I’ve been feeding a few regulars and now I hope to figure out which might be ravens. I flew hang gliders for more than 25 years along the Northern California coast and soared with ravens hawks and gulls quite a lot. The ravens were the most playful and always a joy to watch.

Ravens seem like a lot of fun to watch and interact with

so you're telling me Ravens will politely escort other birds out of their territory and that Crows are the ballsiest things on the planet and will dive bomb a hawk?

Crow: "who are you?" Raven: "I'm you but better."

As a French, we are often using only one name for both Raven and Crow = "Corbeau". Very interesting video to capture the difference. Thanks a lot.

Great info, last year I saw a raven close up on the ground and immediately knew it had to be a raven and not a crow because it was MASSIVE, at least as big as a hawk. So cool to see it up close, and it definitely had a more calm and less cautious temperament than crows.

Raven: Allow me to politely escort you out sir. Crow: And I threw on the GROUND

Crows and Raven be like "Let's confuse these featherless bipeds"

I have a fondness to crows and ravens. I have been walking the same walk about 5 times a week and ive made friends with a crow, he or she has a small light spot around coin size on the chest. I have always stopped and spoken to it and it genuinely looks stunned a human is trying to communicate with it but intrigued by me. Very skittish if i move to quick as its always on high alert, but it seems to genuinely like me. or the attention. I have been bringing it some small bits of bread every other day as a gift to say thanks for the friendship.

I never understood the difference between the two and thought I had seen ravens until I saw one in the flesh for the first time yesterday. I thought it was a huge mutant bird and was impressed by its enormous size, really impressive animals.

I was sitting on park bench one day and a crow decided to amuse me by dropping a paper cup on a flock of ducks on the grass nearby. He kept getting the cup and doing it over, and he'd make eye contact with me and do a little dance every time he pranked those ducks.

Crow: divebombs intruder Raven: OK, buddy. You can’t sleep here. I’ll walk you out.

Informative and interesting. I've been wondering how to tell them apart my whole life, without really looking into it. I think I assumed they were probably the same bird with minor variations. The largest and most beautiful crow/ravens I've ever seen is in the highlands of northwest Mozambique where I was working as a pilot for UNHCR back in the 90's. The ravens/crows were the largest I'd ever seen and were sometimes marked with white. I imagine they were ravens because of their size. These two-toned ravens were the only one I've ever seen that deviated from the standard all-black color. Quite strikingly beautiful. As I recall, they sounded like the standard "caw caw caw" calls typical of covids.

One of my favorite crow memories is watching 2 crows mess with a flock of seagulls. My sister was feeding seagulls outside a second story window and crows kept snatching the food, getting the seagulls to chase them, doing a loop the loop, and chasing the seagulls before divebombing any seagulls going for the food so they could snatch it and anger the seagulls. The crows seemed to be having a merry time of it and the seagulls seemed frustrated that they couldn't out maneuver the more aerodynamic and smarter crows. *My surname is of no relation to the black birds, but I respect them.

TY. I used to have a pet crow who slept outside in the woods at night. Clyde the crow was big and very smart. He would steal things in the house that were shiny, but Clyde always replaced what he stole, with a rock or leaf, or pice of junk. My pet crow had a sense of fairness. RIP Clyde

Raven: Older, cool and calm goth Crow: Young, Edgy, Bothersome, and Goth

A wonderful, clear and detailed video, many thanks, I have learned all these features over the years and always forget when I’m watching these wonderful birds. Here in my suburban garden in London, we have many crows and ravens, the ravens have some amongst them who imitate car alarms, and other domestic sounds which always induces a chuckle from me.

Thank you so much. This is the best coverage on ALL the differences.