№ 179
Common Raven
Corvus corax
Poe considered a parrot before deciding a raven could talk just as well and suited the tone better. The legend that the kingdom falls if the Tower of London's ravens leave was first recorded in 1944.
Photo · cello caruso-turiello · CC BY 4.0 · source · iNaturalist. Cropped and resized.
Call · Lance A. M. Benner · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · source · xeno-canto. Trimmed to 30 seconds, volume normalised.