Australian Raven Taking Bath
Oct 31, 2013•Channel
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PublishedOct 31, 2013
Duration0:41
Video ID4yoz0_IVLhw
LanguageNot specified
CategoryPets & Animals
PrivacyNot specified
Made for KidsNo
Video TypeYouTube Short
Performance Metrics
Views2.6K
Likes67
Comments7
Engagement Rate2.82%
Likes per 100 views2.55
Comments per 1K views2.67
Description
Ravens are a very clean bird,considering they spend most of their lives trawling through waste & here Marcel can be seen taking a tub in a galvanized bucket that the home owner kindly keeps topped up for him with fresh water.in the first few frames you can actually hear a gurgle type sound after he dips his beak into the bucket " up to his eyeballs ".
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.
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