Sharing the shelf with Bernd Heinrich's Mind of the Raven and John Marzluff's Gifts of the Crow, The Ravens of Snover Canyon asks us to reconsider our perceptions of the often-vilified raven.

Using a wealth of research to provide a background on the species, Philip I. Moynihan uses his documentation, made with painstaking detail over the course of several years, to showcase the bright intellect of a pair of mated ravens found living behind his home. Grasping the rare opportunity to capture the details of the pair's nesting period, Moynihan catalogues the...