Common ravens typically vocalize with a croaking sound, but they boast a wider repertoire of calls. Often its deep croaking call will alert the observer to a pair of ravens soaring high overhead. Ravens cluck like hens at the sight of a predator, trill at each other when ready to battle for a privileged spot at a carcass, and beg for mercy from a dominant. Of the birds classified as perching birds or "songbirds," the Common Raven is the largest, the size of a hawk. Ravens are larger. Take it as a blessing, not a curse. (It could be an idom or catchphrase.) Anyway, if anyone could help me THANKS. Population Ravens are the largest passerine (perching) birds in North America. A crow’s tail feathers are basically all the same length, so its tail opens like a fan. What does raven-like mean? Sounds to me like a typical kid question to something said, such as "A raven is like a writing desk." I know it has been months now, but even if the raven passed, it sounds like it … like chrrrggrrerre I can't explain. But a raven has longer middle feathers in its tail, so it looks more like a wedge or a triangle. raven-like is defined by the lexicographers at Oxford Dictionaries as Resembling or characteristic of a raven. I mean the pleasant sound that is made by the river when it flows? Long story short, this raven likely picked you because of your kindred spirit. Thanks I'm writing some poetry so I want to add that word. (It could be an idom or catchphrase.) Kids have that 'why phase', so of course they'd ask. Ravens in stories often act as psychopomps, connecting the material world with the world of spirits. And they often travel in pairs. Next, try to get a look at the bird’s tail. An intelligent and remarkably adaptable bird, living as a scavenger and predator, it can survive at all seasons in surroundings as different as hot desert and high Arctic tundra. What is called the sound make by the flowing river in English word? Crows usually hang out in larger groups. French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss proposed a structuralist theory that suggests the raven (like the coyote) obtained mythic status because it was a mediator animal between life and death. Crow vs. Raven Diffen › Science › Biology › Zoology › Animals While crows and ravens may look similar and are both highly intelligent birds, they are very different in their behavior, habitat and even have physical characteristics that clearly distinguish them from one another.