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Post by siobhan on Aug 18, 2015 16:35:10 GMT -5
A passing reference would cover it, though. As an amateur fiction writer myself, that's how I'd do it in a story. Make the raven tame but free, for example, as my mom's friends' crows were. Heck, we had a sort of tame squirrel for a while that we could hand feed but we never made him stay. He came and went as he pleased. The raven could do that. They leave a window open so he can come in if he wants and leave when he wants. That way you're not "keeping" him but he's still around and a member of the family, as it were. Anybody remember Lassie on TV? Timmy's window was always open (apparently they didn't have mosquitoes or winter there, LOL) and Lassie went in and out of the window all the time.
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Post by rachaelslp on Aug 25, 2015 19:08:43 GMT -5
You all are good at this. So I'll give my Raven an open door so he can go in and out.  I am also going to have a parakeet in the story, and of course the quaker. I'm not sure if the raven and the quaker should ever be out together. I know that they are so very different! I'm not a stickler, but I also want to be close to the truth. In my other book, The Cockatoo Called, one of my beta readers caught a scene where the bird was chewing a toothbrush. She noted that she had heard that they could be dangerous. I changed it. I like to get details right if I can! |
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Post by easttex on Aug 26, 2015 6:18:47 GMT -5
I don't think I would leave my quaker out with a raven. They take eggs and nestlings and have been known to attack adults as large as pigeons. Its probably less likely to happen in the confines of a house, but still.
I just had a peek at Cornell U's Birds of North America website, the absolute best place for researching wild birds, and I noticed that the raven is not well distributed across the country. You may want to consider that, depending on where you are setting the story.
Interesting fact: the Tower of London captive ravens have lived as long as 44 years.
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Post by siobhan on Aug 26, 2015 10:02:40 GMT -5
You could have the raven be a crow. Crows are everywhere, and they're smart and can learn to talk. I would definitely not have a budgie with a crow or raven because budgies are bullies who think they're a lot bigger and badder than they really are, which is how Benjy keeps getting into trouble. He'll take on anybody and he always loses, but that doesn't even make him pause.
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Post by Lulu the Quaker on Jun 3, 2016 18:35:36 GMT -5
I have a gcc conure as well as a Quaker , and they don't get along. If you raise them up together as BABIES though, they will get along very well. The reason mine didn't is because I introduced them far too late !  |
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