{"id":1810,"date":"2011-05-18T13:36:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T19:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.wordpress.com\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2011-05-30T08:02:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T14:02:37","slug":"common-raven-disposing-of-eggshells-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/18\/common-raven-disposing-of-eggshells-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Raven Disposing of Eggshells"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0When this Common Raven landed on a large rock fairly close to me\u00a0last week on Antelope Island\u00a0I could see that it had something in its beak and assumed that it was some type of food.\u00a0 It wasn’t until I got home and processed the images that I could tell what it was.<\/p>\n

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\"Common<\/p>\n

Canon 7D, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, 1\/2500, f 6.3, ISO 500<\/em><\/p>\n

It turns out that it was eggshell, presumably from its own nest.\u00a0 In researching Common Raven eggs I found that they have this kind of marking and color (though there is some variability in both) and this shell remnant seemed to be about the right size for a raven so my assumption is that it’s a raven eggshell and not leftovers from a meal from raiding the nest of another bird.\u00a0 There is a raven nest relatively close to this rock.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"Common<\/p>\n

Canon 7D, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, 1\/2500, f 6.3, ISO 500<\/em><\/p>\n

Here the raven is very carefully placing the shell in a crevice in the rocks.\u00a0 At the time I took the photo I couldn’t figure out why the bird would simply abandon what I thought was food.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"The<\/p>\n

Canon 7D, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, 1\/3200, f 6.3, ISO 500 <\/em><\/p>\n

Here the raven has dropped the eggshell…<\/p>\n

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\"Common<\/p>\n

Canon 7D, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, 1\/2000, f 7.1, ISO 500<\/em><\/p>\n

and then it hopped to the peak of the rock to “crow” about its accomplishment.<\/p>\n

Birds of North America Online<\/em> says this about raven eggshell disposal – “No data on disposal of eggshells”.\u00a0 I don’t know if that means that there have been no\u00a0verified observations of the behavior\u00a0or simply that it has never been studied with data collected.\u00a0 Either way I was happy to see and photograph this raven disposing of the eggshells.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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\u00a0When this Common Raven landed on a large rock fairly close to me\u00a0last week on Antelope Island\u00a0I could see that it had something in its beak and assumed that it was some type of food.\u00a0 It wasn’t until I got home and processed the images that I could tell what it was. \u00a0 Canon 7D, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, 1\/2500, f 6.3, ISO 500 It turns out that it was eggshell, presumably from its own nest.\u00a0 In researching Common Raven eggs I found that they have this kind of marking and color (though there is some variability in both) and this shell remnant seemed to be about the right size for a raven so my assumption is that it’s a raven eggshell and not leftovers from a meal from raiding the nest of another bird.\u00a0 There is a raven nest relatively close to this rock.\u00a0 \u00a0 Canon 7D, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, 1\/2500, f 6.3, ISO 500 Here the raven is very carefully placing the shell in a crevice in the rocks.\u00a0 At the time I took the photo I couldn’t figure out why the bird would simply abandon what I thought was food.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Canon 7D, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, 1\/3200, f 6.3, ISO 500 Here the raven has dropped the eggshell… \u00a0 \u00a0 Canon 7D, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, 1\/2000, f 7.1, ISO 500 and then it hopped to the peak of the rock to “crow” about its accomplishment. Birds of North America Online says this about raven eggshell disposal – “No…<\/p>\n

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