Australian Raven Blue

Midway through his 12 th week Marcel was found sitting on the steel fence of a building site this morning when i decided to take earlier drive to his home area,like usual he allows me to walk right up,i am not sure if its me or the sound of my voice that he identifies.it looks as though he is quite bothered by mites or whatever parasite lives off ravens i have seen the adult birds scratching in similar fashion. as usual when Marcel tries to run his beak through his breast feathers his head reaches a position where his crest feathers spread out to give a spiked appearance,sort of like a " Mohawk " type haircut. with the sun shining directly onto his breast feathers they take on a beautiful iridescent blue sheen although i am not sure if the camera lens shows this clearly. Marcel was found on the ground in the last week of july after a very stormy night,after ringing a few places i was instructed to take him to specific vet surgery where i was advised that he was a raven,healthy,unlikely to have fallen to ground & he was a fledgling & " should be returned to where he was found his parents will look after him ". unfortunately this was not the case and it was 4/5 days before the parents came near him,he also had a talon missing from a rear toe that became quite swollen & infected in the weeks that followed needing treatment,it was paw paw ointment that cleared it up . after having no success with other conventional treatments.Although the only sure fire way to accurately identify the gender of a raven is by blood/dna test Marcel has been declared a male for a number of reasons with the primary one coming from my 15 yr old daughter who has declared that " that bird has to be a male because its just so annoying " fortunately she avoids Marcel otherwise he might think his name is/was " stupid bird " admittedly the poor kid was swooped by a maggie as a five year old & it appears that it has left her quite scarred. [ PLEASE EXCUSE POOR PRESENTATION HOPELESS @ EDITING ]