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by thinkingemote 1551 days ago
"if you think its a raven, its a crow, and if you think its a crow its a raven" so goes the classic quote.

one recent quote i heard on the bus: "ravens are near humans, crows are in the country"

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Absolutely the opposite, loads of crows in the city, few ravens if any.

Above holds true in Western US and Eastern Canada at least.

In my area, I see crows all the time, sitting on power lines and messing with posters on the street and so on. These are hooded crows and easy to distinguish from ravens. I see ravens as well, but not quite as often - though one of my local grocery stores has a small flock (murder!) of ravens that likes to forage in the parking lot. And to be fair, I live in a decently sized city of around 180,000.