common raven

noun

: raven sense 1a

Common ravens, like storks and albatrosses, also come back year after year to the same nest site and sometimes even renovate the same nest.

—Bernd Heinrich, The Nesting Season, 2010

Word History

First Known Use

1725, in the meaning defined above

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