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Raven One of the birds that you may have trouble spotting on a Son Bou holiday is the common raven.

Among the larger numbers recorded this year - along with the evening grosbeaks, pine grosbeaks and common redpolls - were 731 house sparrows, 689 rock (Dove) pigeons, 533 dark-eyed juncos, 508 cedar waxwings, 478 starlings, 462 American tree sparrows, 396 American crows, 383 tufted titmouse, 326 American goldfinches, 275 mourning doves, 252 snow buntings, 230 wild turkeys, 217 black-capped chickadees, 204 white-breasted nuthatches, 126 northern cardinals, 131 downy woodpeckers, 111 common ravens and 101 blue jays.

Mother Nature is a harsh mistress, but there's nothing natural about the way common ravens have decimated the struggling desert tortoise.

Forest harbors common ravens, barred owls, band-tailed pigeons, spotted towhees and Steller's jays.

Benefiting from increased food (from human trash) and water, populations of the common raven, a prolific omnivore, skyrocketed.

The dead birds testing positive for the West Nile virus Friday included 153 American crows, two scrub jays, one common raven and one black phoebe.

Two cloacal swabs (one each from a Common Raven and an American Crow) and one oropharyngeal swab from a Blue Jay were not taken; hence swabs from both sites were available for a total of 147 birds.

CAPTION(S): Alan Berner / The Seattle Times : The common raven is one of the more than 100 species of birds seen at Devil's Gulch in Chelan County.