Juneauites have fun watching the curious corvids that wander around town, but most of them disappear when the sun goes down. A KTOO listener asked us where they go.
A raven sits on the roof of the Foodland grocery store on Thursday, May 16 2024. Marc Wheeler lives in downtown Juneau, close to the Foodland grocery store. He often stops there for lunch. That’s when he sees the parking lot’s resident ravens.
“Where’s the roost?,” Wheeler asked for this installment of Curious Juneau. It took some nighttime detective work to find out. Within a few minutes, a half dozen birds started circling it. Eventually, one took the lid in its beak and lifted the cup to show off an illustrated raven with its wings outstretched.
A rainy Tuesday night stake-out revealed no ravens in the trees. But there was some evidence in the echoey, dimly lit parking garage of the State Office Building. “Those birds typically roost in a pretty consistent place on their territory, night after night after night,” Marzluff.They’re fiercely protective of that territory, especially when they’re tending to a nest like the one in the parking garage.Those ravens are the most low-ranking in the bunch. They aren’t tied to a particular spot that they’re defending or returning to every day.
“If all sudden there’s a big spill of a bag of dog food at Foodland, that word is gonna get out,” Marzluff. “Because the birds that are there will be very active and other birds will hear or see them and come in.”
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