We not only have the same interest in Ravens and other great critters of the outdoors, we obviously have the SAME taste in furniture!! I have that exact Mexican table in my music room/man cave. My wife's going to flip!
They love being touched and gently scratched behind the ear, my raven would close his eyes and enjoy it immensly. Try to gently scratch his sides of the head where his ears are he will love it :)
Ah, the joys of allopreening... I suspect your question in the video was rhetorical, but social birds puff their feathers as an invitation to be allopreened. (technically, being preened by a human is heteropreening)...Ravens are one of the most intelligent of all birds. I love your videos!
If I make a mistake when grooming, my cockatiel nibbles and glares at my finger. LOL, don't make a wrong move when grooming a raven, or they'll poke you in the eye!
@infinitecanadian No they will not poke you. My raven loved me touching and petting him under the beak and back of his head. He would sit on my shoulders numerous times and i would look at him and be close to his beak, he never once even tried to poke or get my eye. Only thing he did regularly was to catch my ear ever so softly when he lands on my shoulder as a sign of "hello i'am here" thing. They are gentle.
I had read that American Indians referred to them as Wizards.
I wonder how they would interact with various Parrot species. Canaries & Cockatiels seem a little smarter than Pigeons. Conures, Green Cheeks, Amazons etc. seem a little smarter than those smaller parrots. I have had communities where they all pretty much get along. I would like to test Corvids along side certain Parrots. Have you heard of any one doing that ?
Ugh I think my heart just exploded due to the sheer cuteness of Edgar! And I couldn't get the stupid smile off my face at how he responded to you when you pet him. It's obvious how much he loves you ^_^ Thank you so much for sharing this with us!
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And dont schratch him either! That is not a cat or dog.. he has feathers.. always tease the way feathers grow.. feathers are deep in his skin.. it is something like someone was pulling your hand the way it cannot move.. i bet you would not like it..
@TheVeneth Birds actually do like it....its like the equivalent to running your hands through you hair and slightly pulling it....and it also helps loosen up feathers that haven't fallen out from their last molting. I have an African Senegal who loves it.
@TheVeneth LOL my birds Love having their feathers "scratched" and rubbed the wrong way, its when they are molting that you need to be careful. I love it when "experts" try and show their expertise.
@TheVeneth Do you know anything about birds? or are you just assuming that they don't like it? What do you think birds do when they preen each other? Or scratch their own heads? It would probably hurt if she pet its wing coverts the wrong way, but not the head/body feathers. They are soft and flexible.
The closet ive ever been to a raven or crow in general was when I was eating mc.donalds and a young crow or raven landed on my back and I didnt notice it and it ate my fries when i wasnt paying attention and I only knew of its prescence when it let out a caw near my ear and it startled me and made me jump making it fly away....but not before stealing the remaining of my cheeseburger. But I didnt get mad at the fact he stole my lunch but I didnt notice it sooner :(
@euromerc I had a female crow who used to nest near my opened window what she do was if she got irritated with me sleeping she would let out shrill cries at 5:00 in the morning and cause me to nearly smash through the floor x_X Shes dead though because she had a heart attack or something :( I buried her before the cats found her
i believe these birds could give you a small ideia on how smart dinosaurs actually were if they said dinosaur's intelligence ranged from a crocadillia like intelligence to bird like intelligence the chances of finding dinosaurs as smart or possibly smarter (given the circumstances of the world they inhabited) then crows or ravens wouldn't be small.
@caturday1999 - Edgar is very loyal (and jealous!). He loves me very much. Ravens are very intelligent, and have the IQ of a human 4 year-old. They are quick to find things that you don't want them to have, and very playful. So, yes, if you raise them from a nestling, and spend a LOT of time with them, they are wonderful companions.
@PaganWanderer ~ perhaps you could contact Corvid Ranch to see if they know of a breeder in Europe, or go to "giuseppecassini" on YouTube and ask where he got his raven. He is in Italy.
@PaganWanderer yes but its its not legal in the US to have them without special federal permits (trust me ive looked) buuut anywhere else its all about having a breeder.
My uncle had a raven when I was little, but it was larger, or at east I remember it as being larger. He got it in northern Norway, rescued it from some seagulls.
@Kroenen81 ~ It could have been larger. There are different types of ravens. Edgar is an African hybrid raven. In American the common raven is the Corvus Corax. Even though I have ravens, when I see ravens outside, they ALWAYS look larger to me!
He is absolutley Beautiful i love these birds and he has lovely brown eyes and he is all Puffy :P i would give anythink for a tame pet raven/crow that was happy to live in cpativity =)
You can get a hybrid raven from Corvid Ranch in Alabama that is hand fed and raised from a chick, so they are totally bonded to humans by the time you get them at 6 weeks. My raven is so bonded to me and very happy. Google Corvid Ranch to find their site.
Thank you, Giuseppe. Edgar is very beautiful, and he truly loves me. Homar is beautiful as well, and I can tell he want to please you :) I do love my crows and ravens, very much. They are like children to me.
I am still trying to get Huginn to talk. He makes plenty of interesting noises when we aren't in the same room. Any ideas? I talk to him. He knows his name all to well. He knows when he is in trouble even when I talk to him. He answers back in honks and weird kind of snorts sometimes. He also just will go on like he is carrying a conversation. He will go off and then stop and wait for my response then talk some more. He makes the funniest sounds but has yet to say anything in English yet.
Huginn is still talking raven baby talk. Pick something easy that you want him to say, like "hello", and make sure you repeat it to him often. Pretty soon, you'll hear him practicing the word when you're not in the room!
He says Hello, What?, imitates the dog snoring, sings an aria, imitates the crows by saying "QuaQuaQua", and plays a game where he says "Ha", then I say "Ha", then He says Ha Ha, then I say Ha Ha. Then he mixes it up and says it 3x in a row, and I have to follow him, like Simon Says! See my video: Raven Talks, Sings and More under Euromerc.
Yes! He says: "What?" "Hello" "QuaQuaQua" (imitating the crow), he sings an aria, He imitates the dog snoring, and "crow" is his cuss word! He also plays a game with me where he says "Ha", then I say "Ha", then he says "Ha Ha", then I say HaHa, then he'll mix it up saying Ha 3x, and I have to follow him like Simon Says!
Edgar is very tame, and intelligent. I've had him since he was a chick at 6 wks. old; but he came from a breeder so he was hand-fed since he was a baby :)
Hi euromerc. . .got your message and this video response (finally). . .interesting that Edgar is a hybrid, as I didn't know hybrids were possible. Thank you for posting this and showing us Edgar! :)
I know you could, because you know corvids. Edgar is not as large as the Corvus Corax; and also, at the very tips of his breast feathers (not visible in video) he has white edges.
For the life of me I can't tell the difference between this hybrid raven and a common raven. If you put Edgar next to a common raven, could you tell them apart?
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We not only have the same interest in Ravens and other great critters of the outdoors, we obviously have the SAME taste in furniture!! I have that exact Mexican table in my music room/man cave. My wife's going to flip!
weissang 13 hours ago
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weissang 13 hours ago
Out of curiosity, how much did Edgar happen to cost you?
Tobermaury101 1 day ago
They love being touched and gently scratched behind the ear, my raven would close his eyes and enjoy it immensly. Try to gently scratch his sides of the head where his ears are he will love it :)
Ouija121085 2 days ago
Beautiful and healthy specimen, congrats :) reminds me of my raven.
Ouija121085 2 days ago
Ah, the joys of allopreening... I suspect your question in the video was rhetorical, but social birds puff their feathers as an invitation to be allopreened. (technically, being preened by a human is heteropreening)...Ravens are one of the most intelligent of all birds. I love your videos!
javakogan 1 week ago
If I make a mistake when grooming, my cockatiel nibbles and glares at my finger. LOL, don't make a wrong move when grooming a raven, or they'll poke you in the eye!
infinitecanadian 3 weeks ago
@infinitecanadian No they will not poke you. My raven loved me touching and petting him under the beak and back of his head. He would sit on my shoulders numerous times and i would look at him and be close to his beak, he never once even tried to poke or get my eye. Only thing he did regularly was to catch my ear ever so softly when he lands on my shoulder as a sign of "hello i'am here" thing. They are gentle.
Ouija121085 2 days ago
@Ouija121085 I know, I was joking. Besides, my cockatiel is rather...tempermental.
infinitecanadian 2 days ago
My bird puffed it's feathers out so you could get up in between them and scratch his little bony body Maybe Edgar is doing the same?
Anyway, clean your house! It's a mess in some of your videos.
staphinfection 4 weeks ago
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh if you ever breed, I want a baby!
merrituber1 1 month ago
ravens are like 10.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 times cooler than any bird, fish and animal within the solar system
Dougfolk 1 month ago
Wow he's so cute! :D
The007bbang 1 month ago
I gotta askk...Where'd you get this bird? And how? I want a raven soo bad, though i know its illegal. ;p
cookiesrgood4thesoul 1 month ago
@cookiesrgood4thesoul - I got him from Corvid Ranch, and because he's an African hybrid raven, he is legal to have in the United States.
euromerc 1 month ago
I've heard that ravens can become agressive in captivity. Has it ever tried to attack you?
Shadowblood66 2 months ago
I had read that American Indians referred to them as Wizards.
I wonder how they would interact with various Parrot species. Canaries & Cockatiels seem a little smarter than Pigeons. Conures, Green Cheeks, Amazons etc. seem a little smarter than those smaller parrots. I have had communities where they all pretty much get along. I would like to test Corvids along side certain Parrots. Have you heard of any one doing that ?
tmac5400 2 months ago
SO BEAUTIFUL! i want one
TheRealDJLO 2 months ago
How old is he?
MysticalMannequin 4 months ago
@MysticalMannequin ~~~ Edgar is 5 now :)
euromerc 4 months ago
Cute.
guyNbluejeans 7 months ago
Ugh I think my heart just exploded due to the sheer cuteness of Edgar! And I couldn't get the stupid smile off my face at how he responded to you when you pet him. It's obvious how much he loves you ^_^ Thank you so much for sharing this with us!
OnyxWildcat 7 months ago
Ah, allopreening (actually heteropreening if one person is a human). They love it!! Look up "Cowie the Cowbird". He lets me preen him...
javakogan 8 months ago
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And dont schratch him either! That is not a cat or dog.. he has feathers.. always tease the way feathers grow.. feathers are deep in his skin.. it is something like someone was pulling your hand the way it cannot move.. i bet you would not like it..
TheVeneth 8 months ago
@TheVeneth ~ they love it.
euromerc 8 months ago 15
@TheVeneth Birds actually do like it....its like the equivalent to running your hands through you hair and slightly pulling it....and it also helps loosen up feathers that haven't fallen out from their last molting. I have an African Senegal who loves it.
DrOhcysp 7 months ago 2
@DrOhcysp Hm.. ok.. Me, I wouldnt do it to him..
TheVeneth 7 months ago
@TheVeneth Have you ever pet a bird before? Lol seriously
XestaStudios 3 months ago
@TheVeneth LOL my birds Love having their feathers "scratched" and rubbed the wrong way, its when they are molting that you need to be careful. I love it when "experts" try and show their expertise.
o0GoddessKali0o 3 months ago
@o0GoddessKali0o Others need to understand, their feathers are Quills. If pushed TOWARD or into their skin it hurts.
tmac5400 2 months ago
Dont pet him against the feathers..
TheVeneth 8 months ago
@TheVeneth Do you know anything about birds? or are you just assuming that they don't like it? What do you think birds do when they preen each other? Or scratch their own heads? It would probably hurt if she pet its wing coverts the wrong way, but not the head/body feathers. They are soft and flexible.
TheDragonCael 6 months ago
@TheDragonCael ~ do I know anything about birds?!!!!
euromerc 6 months ago
@euromerc no,no, I was talking to TheVeneth
TheDragonCael 6 months ago
@TheDragonCael ~ Sorry! I'm so confused :0
euromerc 6 months ago
@Gabbyandindigo ~ Cute name :)
euromerc 9 months ago
The closet ive ever been to a raven or crow in general was when I was eating mc.donalds and a young crow or raven landed on my back and I didnt notice it and it ate my fries when i wasnt paying attention and I only knew of its prescence when it let out a caw near my ear and it startled me and made me jump making it fly away....but not before stealing the remaining of my cheeseburger. But I didnt get mad at the fact he stole my lunch but I didnt notice it sooner :(
DarkGaara2007 9 months ago 8
@DarkGaara2007 ~ That is so typical of a crow or raven. That's why they call them "tricksters" :)
euromerc 9 months ago
@euromerc I had a female crow who used to nest near my opened window what she do was if she got irritated with me sleeping she would let out shrill cries at 5:00 in the morning and cause me to nearly smash through the floor x_X Shes dead though because she had a heart attack or something :( I buried her before the cats found her
DarkGaara2007 9 months ago
Wow, the size of his beak!
wnesbitt1 11 months ago
Maybe hes all poofy because he thought you were grooming him? =0
I always see birds fluff out like that when they groom themselves or eachother.
Lilywrite 1 year ago
@Lilywrite ~ they become fluffy when they're sitting in the sun and kind of go into a trance.
euromerc 1 year ago
He's really fuzzy looking.
crazybuizel 1 year ago
i believe these birds could give you a small ideia on how smart dinosaurs actually were if they said dinosaur's intelligence ranged from a crocadillia like intelligence to bird like intelligence the chances of finding dinosaurs as smart or possibly smarter (given the circumstances of the world they inhabited) then crows or ravens wouldn't be small.
raptros 1 year ago
i want one so bad xD
mikesamillion27 1 year ago
did you name him after Edgar Allen Poes poem "The Raven"? because if not how ironic haha.
bananatree94 1 year ago
@bananatree94 ~ My ex-fiance named him. I would have given him something more mysterious :)
euromerc 1 year ago
@euromerc haha ohh. well idk, edgar is pretty mysterious. The poem called "the raven" is pretty chilling. :)
bananatree94 1 year ago
@bananatree94 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THAT IS NOT IRONIC AT ALL
ShadowCrashed81 10 months ago
does that mean there horny when their fur goes up like that
vinny460 1 year ago
@vinny460 ~ No. They get puffy when they're in the sun, when they're mad, when they're scared. When they're horny, they try to mate with your hand.
euromerc 1 year ago 3
do they make great pets
caturday1999 1 year ago
@caturday1999 - Edgar is very loyal (and jealous!). He loves me very much. Ravens are very intelligent, and have the IQ of a human 4 year-old. They are quick to find things that you don't want them to have, and very playful. So, yes, if you raise them from a nestling, and spend a LOT of time with them, they are wonderful companions.
euromerc 1 year ago
@euromerc cute :)
FusionNinjin 1 year ago
You have a pretty, soft voice, and he's a pretty, soft bird!
mangobanna 1 year ago
@mangobanna ~ Thank you so much, and Edgar says thanks, too :)
euromerc 1 year ago
Ah, Ravens are beautiful creatures. I think their the best bird <3 I would love to have one of my own one day (:
LxRaitofan 1 year ago
Can you buy a Raven as a pet ? I did'nt know that
PaganWanderer 1 year ago
@PaganWanderer ~ Yes you can, at Corvid Ranch in Alabama.
euromerc 1 year ago
@euromerc Well, I don't live in Amerika. Could it be able to buy a Raven in Europe ?
PaganWanderer 1 year ago
@PaganWanderer ~ perhaps you could contact Corvid Ranch to see if they know of a breeder in Europe, or go to "giuseppecassini" on YouTube and ask where he got his raven. He is in Italy.
euromerc 1 year ago
@euromerc Ok Thanks alot ^^. I love your movies of Edgar btw :D
PaganWanderer 1 year ago
@PaganWanderer yes but its its not legal in the US to have them without special federal permits (trust me ive looked) buuut anywhere else its all about having a breeder.
FoamyFanGrl09 1 year ago
My uncle had a raven when I was little, but it was larger, or at east I remember it as being larger. He got it in northern Norway, rescued it from some seagulls.
Kroenen81 1 year ago
@Kroenen81 ~ It could have been larger. There are different types of ravens. Edgar is an African hybrid raven. In American the common raven is the Corvus Corax. Even though I have ravens, when I see ravens outside, they ALWAYS look larger to me!
euromerc 1 year ago
I love your birds! Edgar is very beautiful <3
Nenshite 1 year ago
@Nenshite Thank you. I feel so blessed to have him in my life.
euromerc 1 year ago
@Nenshite I agree with this!
Prfctdrk 1 year ago
He is absolutley Beautiful i love these birds and he has lovely brown eyes and he is all Puffy :P i would give anythink for a tame pet raven/crow that was happy to live in cpativity =)
MusicisLife373 2 years ago
You can get a hybrid raven from Corvid Ranch in Alabama that is hand fed and raised from a chick, so they are totally bonded to humans by the time you get them at 6 weeks. My raven is so bonded to me and very happy. Google Corvid Ranch to find their site.
euromerc 2 years ago
@euromerc What is he cross bred with? Because he is very beautiful. :)
Onitsu 1 year ago
@Onitsu Edgar is an African Pied Crow/Brown-necked Raven mix :)
euromerc 1 year ago
Cool!!!Super!
MSgunDOS 2 years ago
No fair! I want one!
EVAPETOLICCHIO1 2 years ago
Corvid Ranch in Alabama :)
euromerc 2 years ago
Cool bird!.I had a fish crow that would eat out of my hand.He still lived in the wild though.
FoulOwl 2 years ago
That is VERY cool. I wonder how he got tame?
euromerc 2 years ago
I trained him over a couple of months.He was stealing dogfood,so the motivation was already there.
FoulOwl 2 years ago
Oh yeah,he would only take it from a flat palm,but he would always dunk the kibble into the dogbowl to soften it afterwards.They're smart.
FoulOwl 2 years ago
your Edgar is very beautiful, his/her eyes it is very good and domestic they are kind, you are good you have a lot of love for the crows.......:)
giuseppecassini 2 years ago
Thank you, Giuseppe. Edgar is very beautiful, and he truly loves me. Homar is beautiful as well, and I can tell he want to please you :) I do love my crows and ravens, very much. They are like children to me.
euromerc 2 years ago
Beautifull raven !
031doolittle 2 years ago 2
I think so <3
euromerc 2 years ago
I am still trying to get Huginn to talk. He makes plenty of interesting noises when we aren't in the same room. Any ideas? I talk to him. He knows his name all to well. He knows when he is in trouble even when I talk to him. He answers back in honks and weird kind of snorts sometimes. He also just will go on like he is carrying a conversation. He will go off and then stop and wait for my response then talk some more. He makes the funniest sounds but has yet to say anything in English yet.
~Void~
emperorvoid 2 years ago
Void,
Huginn is still talking raven baby talk. Pick something easy that you want him to say, like "hello", and make sure you repeat it to him often. Pretty soon, you'll hear him practicing the word when you're not in the room!
euromerc 2 years ago
He says Hello, What?, imitates the dog snoring, sings an aria, imitates the crows by saying "QuaQuaQua", and plays a game where he says "Ha", then I say "Ha", then He says Ha Ha, then I say Ha Ha. Then he mixes it up and says it 3x in a row, and I have to follow him, like Simon Says! See my video: Raven Talks, Sings and More under Euromerc.
euromerc 2 years ago
He's very beautiful! :)
Can he talk at all?
pkkgh 2 years ago
Yes! He says: "What?" "Hello" "QuaQuaQua" (imitating the crow), he sings an aria, He imitates the dog snoring, and "crow" is his cuss word! He also plays a game with me where he says "Ha", then I say "Ha", then he says "Ha Ha", then I say HaHa, then he'll mix it up saying Ha 3x, and I have to follow him like Simon Says!
euromerc 2 years ago
what an amazing, beautiful bird! is it actually tame, or just very tolerant? did you raise it from an egg?
martang66 2 years ago
Edgar is very tame, and intelligent. I've had him since he was a chick at 6 wks. old; but he came from a breeder so he was hand-fed since he was a baby :)
euromerc 2 years ago
Hi euromerc. . .got your message and this video response (finally). . .interesting that Edgar is a hybrid, as I didn't know hybrids were possible. Thank you for posting this and showing us Edgar! :)
Feather from the crows list. . .
featherbirdlady 3 years ago
I know you could, because you know corvids. Edgar is not as large as the Corvus Corax; and also, at the very tips of his breast feathers (not visible in video) he has white edges.
euromerc 3 years ago
For the life of me I can't tell the difference between this hybrid raven and a common raven. If you put Edgar next to a common raven, could you tell them apart?
ccoraxfan 3 years ago