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Ravens

cd07 · 2019-10-11 13:22:13

Have ravens finally made a decent come back lately? I'm seeing more here in north county Dublin than ever before. Beautiful birds

11-10-2019 02:22PM

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Have ravens finally made a decent come back lately? I'm seeing more here in north county Dublin than ever before. Beautiful birds

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#2 11-10-2019 02:37PM

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No substantial change in their numbers, that I'm aware of but they were always more common than many people thought. Mother Dublin always had a few hanging about,

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#3 11-10-2019 02:48PM

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We have them in Dublin 12.

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#4 12-10-2019 03:27PM

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They've increased a good bit in relatively recent times for sure. Lack of indiscriminate poisons in recent years will have aided them I'm sure, but they're a tough and smart generalist so in many ways its not surprising.

Worth looking at their distribution changes between bird atlases: https://app.bto.org/mapstore/StoreServlet?id=456

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