var myBirdFamily = { commonname: "Common Raven", latinname: "Corvus corax", familyname: "Jays and Crows", familysource: "../taxonomy/jayscrows.html"};

var myAudioURL = "../audio/Common Raven.mp3";

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	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CommonRaven3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CommonRaven3.jpg", commonname: "Common Raven", latinname: "Corvus corax", description: "", location: "Sausalito, CA - Hawk Hill at Marin Headlands", date: new Date(2005,9,9) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CommonRaven.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CommonRaven.jpg", description: "This is my \"namesake\" bird. Raven. The Haida consider Raven to be one of their most important gods.<br/> Raven is the \"creator\" - intelligent, creative, playful, solitary, tricky, arrogant, and occasionally vain.<br/> He gave birth to man, and he put the sun, moon and stars in the sky.<br/> <br/> A marvelous book, Mind of the Raven : Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds, by Bernd Heinrich, <br/>is a great read for anyone interested in animal intelligence, biology, or birds.", location: "Palo Alto - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,3,08) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CommonRavenCreatingMan.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CommonRavenCreatingMan.jpg", description: "This is a picture of Bill Reid's \"Raven and the Birth of Man\" sculpture<br/> at the University of British Columbia Anthropological museum.<br/> <br/> Bill Reid was a great Haida sculptor, who helped revive his culture from the restrictive excesses of missionary zeal.<br/> This statue is made of several tons of yellow cedar, and is approximately 10 feet in diameter.<br/> It rests on sand brought by Haida children from their ancestral home - the Queen Charlotte Islands.<br/> Click here to learn more of the Haida Genesis myth:<br/> How Raven coaxed the first men out of a giant clam shell he found on the beach.", location: "Vancouver - University of British Columbia Anthropological Museum", date: new Date(1998,00,00) }
	)