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Possibly my favourite bird, the carrion crow (Corvus corone). Not as large and imposing as a raven, but very intelligent and quite beautiful.
Have you ever walked the lonesome hills and heard the curlews cry? Or seen the raven black as night upon a windswept sky? To walk the purple heather and hear the westwind cry To know that's where the rapparee must die... (The Pogues - Young Ned of the Hill)