From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret

Roach.

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A couple of Ravens have been shouting at each other across the garden each day this spring

into summer and their loud mouthed antics reminded me of a somewhat less-boughty conversation

about Grozen Ravens that I had a decade ago on the podcast with

ornithologist Dr. John Marsloth of the University of Washington, a

conversation I want to reprise on today's show. Possessing large brains for

their body size, a knack for social networking that requires no internet

connection, and keen powers of observation, crows and ravens are among the big personalities of the bird world.

There also what Dr. Marzlev calls black feathered practitioners of lifelong learning,

and from him I learned about the capacity of their avian brains and the range of things it allows

them to do from the funny to the daring, much of it almost unbelievable.

More in a moment, but first these messages.

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Dr. John Marsleff is a renowned ornithologist and urban ecologist and professor emeritus

of wildlife sciences at the University of Washington.

His author of a number of books, including ones about his area of particular expertise,

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