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Unusual behaviour – an Australian Raven eating nectar from Bottlebrush flowers

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The Australian Raven (Corvus coronoides) is Australia’s largest corvid, and it is renowned for its intelligence and adaptability. Ravens are omnivorous, and take a wide range of foods including invertebrates, young birds, eggs, small mammals, carrion and discarded food in urban areas, rural areas and rubbish tips. They often soak hard food such a stale bread or even meat to soften and to make it easier to swallow it before eating it. Australian Ravens in Western Australia have been observed at least once feeding on nectar from the flowers of Eucalyptus leucoxylon (Richardson, 2016), and their tongues have fine papillae on the edges and tip. This Australian Raven was videoed deliberately inserting its beak into the flowers of an ornamental Bottlebrush (Callistemon sp.) in the carpark of a shopping centre in Willeton, a suburb of Perth in Western Australia. It was also deliberately breaking Bottlebrush flowers off with its beak, and then dropping to the ground to feed on the nectar while holding and rotating the flower with one foot. Its mate was doing the same. This video was shot with an iPhone – apologies for the quality!

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