Mr. King captured a live raven near our school, banded it with a large yellow tag on its wing, then released it outside. We will try to spot it around our area to study its habits. One of our staff members, Sandy Trumbower, also brought in a live raven for us to see and study. Sandy is a licensed bird rehabilitator, and has a raven with a broken wing, so it can no longer fly. With Sandy's help we dissected some owl pellets .
Ravens regurgitate pellets to store food for later.
We rewrote this story into a script for a shadow puppet play that we performed for our school. We found out that Raven is a very important character in native folklore in Alaska and many other parts of the world. I hope you enjoy learning with us about ravens. We will add more information all spring, until our project is done in May, so keep checking in on our page Thoughts, facts, questions, and pictures. Alaskan native legends.