African Bird Club

Common Raven - pellets and remainder of food - Unspecified

Photographer

» Ruben Barone Tosco

Location

» Teno massif (Buenavista del Norte), Tenerife

Country image taken

» Canary Islands

Date

» March, 2016

Equipment

» Pentax K-m with Pentax 18-55 mm lens

Bird Species

»Corvus corax - Northern Raven

Bird Species (French)

»Grand Corbeau

Bird Family

»Corvidae - Crows, Jays

Bird Group

»Passeriformes Flycatchers, Starlings, Sunbirds, Swallows, Warblers, Weavers etc

Bird Status

» Least Concern

Remarks

» Pellets found inside a breeding territory of the species, where it is easy to find also the remainder of food, like fruits and seeds of Opuntia dillenii (see the image), a widespread alien plant in Tenerife. Common Raven is one of its main seed dispersers in the Canary Islands, together with endemic lizards of the genus Gallotia.