Two Common Ravens (Corvus corax) were hanging around Sunset Park’s coast yesterday.
I first spotted one from a distance while I was in the new Bush Terminal Park. I followed 1st Avenue to its end at 39th St. to see if I could get a better view.
Did I ever! Turned out to be pair, and they hung out for a long time on the cliff-like side of the warehouse at the west terminus of 39th St. There was a lot of grooming.
I’ll post more pictures soon.
New Year’s Ravens
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[…] when I saw a pair of Common Ravens flying and courting over a quiet (on the weekends) piece of the Sunset Park waterfront? It was a […]
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[…] peregrinus).At the top of 1st Avenue. You may remember that on January 1st, I found a pair of Ravens (Corvus corax) courting near here. Lately, four Ravens have been seen in the area, so presumably the nest-building […]
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[…] towards the water, angling southwards at roughly 1st Avenue (they sure do have a route!).It was on New Year’s Day 2015 that I first spotted a pair of Ravens grooming each other here in Brooklyn. That was pretty unusual […]
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[…] New Year’s Day, 2015, I saw a pair of Common Ravens at the eastern terminus of 39th St. in Sunset Park. They were […]
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[…] down at the end of 39th Street here in Brooklyn (past the fence it’s the bay), where I was ecstatic to see them. The Sunset Park/Green-Wood corridor has been a raven runway since. In 2016, I saw a family of five […]
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