Isn't that a White Eyed Raven"
"Australian Ravens are black with white eyes in adults. The feathers on the throat (hackles) are longer than in other species, and a bird tends to extend these when calling, while holding its head and body in a horizontal position. Australian Ravens are usually seen in pairs."

Why do crows group on pairs?
So when one is on the road eating road kill, the other is up in a tree warning of any traffic"
"Car Car Car"
 
Isn't that a White Eyed Raven"
"Australian Ravens are black with white eyes in adults. The feathers on the throat (hackles) are longer than in other species, and a bird tends to extend these when calling, while holding its head and body in a horizontal position. Australian Ravens are usually seen in pairs."

Why do crows group on pairs?
So when one is on the road eating road kill, the other is up in a tree warning of any traffic"
"Car Car Car"

Isn't that a White Eyed Raven"
"Australian Ravens are black with white eyes in adults. The feathers on the throat (hackles) are longer than in other species, and a bird tends to extend these when calling, while holding its head and body in a horizontal position. Australian Ravens are usually seen in pairs."

Why do crows group on pairs?
So when one is on the road eating road kill, the other is up in a tree warning of any traffic"
"Car Car Car"
The Australian raven can be distinguished from the two species of crow occurring in Australia by the grey base of the feathers, which is white in the latter species. The demarcation between pale and black regions on the feather is gradual in the ravens and sharply delineated in the crows. didn,t kow that . so are they ravens or crows .
 
"The feathers on the throat (hackles) are longer than in other species, and a bird tends to extend these when calling"

Yours looks like its about to call with its hackles showing, plus the white eye.

Quite a majestic bird when you look at how big they can get.
 
"The feathers on the throat (hackles) are longer than in other species, and a bird tends to extend these when calling"

Yours looks like its about to call with its hackles showing, plus the white eye.

Quite a majestic bird when you look at how big they can get.
It is a great bird , doesn,t hassel the lorekeet or blue face . it just squarks till i throw them a sausage or 2
 

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