Raven in Dublin 8?

White_hills

Hello!

This morning on my way to work I heard a very peculiar noise as I was walking along the canal at Portobello. I looked up into a near by tree and a large Raven was cawing/calling away!

I've only ever seen one before and this was near the sugarloaf mountain in Wicklow so I was quite excited as I'm amazed by crows. Is it unusual to have one in the city? I'm ever so curious as to why it was near the canal or if anyone else has spotted him/her before.

recedite

Is there a dead body floating in the canal?

OpenYourEyes

There have been the odd one reported in Dublin city recently alright. Unusual, but at the same time there's no reason they shouldn't do well in urban areas with cliff-like buildings. Anecdotally, their numbers are on the increase so I suppose its to be expected that they'd move into the cities!

Ulmus

Keep an eye out and you could see him again. I saw one perched on the tip of the radio mast of Store Street Garda Station. I see them regularly in Glasnevin.

whyulittle

Came across a bunch of them on the Long Mile Road one evening.

vandriver

whyulittle wrote: »

Came across a bunch of them on the Long Mile Road one evening.

They live at clonnacnoise

OwlEye

http://www.irishbirding.com/birds/web/Display/sighting/115508/Raven.html

Birdnuts

I was in Naas on business 2day and there was a pair hanging around the library i kid you not!! Like the Kite, Buzzard etc. they were actually a common enough urban bird up to the 18th century in this part of the world.

EICVD

I’m 99% sure I saw one in a Northwest Dublin Park a few years ago, seemed to be having a wood pigeon for breakfast!

cd07

I see one regularly in the naul. Great to see unfortunately not that common these days

recedite

Birdnuts wrote: »

Like the Kite, Buzzard etc. they were actually a common enough urban bird up to the 18th century in this part of the world.

Those were the days before poison.
One of the last things the Green/FF coalition did before destroying the economy and calling in the IMF in 2010 was to outlaw the practice of leaving poisoned meat baits out in the open. It seems to have made a big difference to these sorts of birds. We can thank John Gormley mainly for that, I think.
I mean the birds. Blame FF for the rest.

rivermisty

I've regularly seen them on Killiney Hill in the last few summers, getting mobbed by grey crows more often than not.