Brown-necked Raven - Corvus ruficollis
I will really need to come back and post better.
Camping again at New Year again, a pair of Brown-necked Ravens would come and circle the camp first thing in the morning while I was boiling water to make the tea. You would hear them before you saw them - their deep rolling croaks echoing off of the canyon walls. I thought they were remarkably nosy ! They really did check out what we were doing each day but I guess they were looking for scraps of food.
These are a slightly smaller Raven than the Common Raven in the North - still sporting the cruciform look and the diamond shaped tale but perhaps 20 % smaller. The Common Raven gets down as far as Southern Iraq but not really into the Arabian Peninsula proper. So another life tick.
I will hunt some down and get a better picture soon !
Oman, Hajar Mountains
30 December 2013
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