{"id":3685,"date":"2025-04-19T13:52:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T13:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globetip.com\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2025-04-19T13:52:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T13:52:58","slug":"photographer-snaps-photos-of-incredibly-rare-white-ravens-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globe-tips.com\/photographer-snaps-photos-of-incredibly-rare-white-ravens-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Snaps Photos of Incredibly Rare White Ravens in Canada\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ravens are remarkable creatures, renowned for their intelligence, and a familiar sight in some of our oldest stories &#8211; from travelling with Norse god Odin, to featuring in Edgar Allen Poe&#8217;s most famous poem . Even more revered, however, is the white raven &#8211; a bird rarely seen outside of myths and legends. Which made it even more incredible when Canadian phtographer Mike Yip shared photographs of a family of the unusual birds living near his home in British Columbia.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An avid bird photographer since 2004, Yip quickly gained a reputation as a local authority on wildlife, and so was one of the first to know when locals in&nbsp;<strong>Vancouver Island<\/strong>&nbsp;first sighted the rare birds. Disbelieving, he was amazed upon arriving in their territory to find a colony of the white ravens going about their daily lives. Initially shy, they warmed up to him over time, and after a few visits, he was able to take some truly memorable shots.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ravens are famous&nbsp;<strong>puzzle solvers<\/strong>, adept at using tools and even able to recognise faces and mimic human speech according to some studies. They&#8217;re&nbsp; also very adaptable, and can be found all over the world &#8211; from North African deserts, to Tibetan mountains, and have made their way into folk stories on almost every continent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stories of the&nbsp;<strong>white raven<\/strong>&nbsp;are rarer, but always show the bird as a magical or even godlike creature &#8211; in one story, helping to bring fire to humans, before being charred by the flames and remaining black thereafter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s thought that the family Yip photographed has their usual color due to&nbsp;a genetic disorder called leucism &#8211; a very unusual condition that nonetheless may have been the origin of early stories of the bird. Drawing attention from wildlife enthusiasts worldwide, the family continue to flourish &#8211; with Yip a regular visitor.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ravens are remarkable creatures, renowned for their intelligence, and a familiar sight in some of our oldest stories &#8211; from travelling with Norse god Odin, to featuring in Edgar Allen Poe&#8217;s most famous poem . Even more revered, however, is the white raven &#8211; a bird rarely seen outside of myths and legends. Which made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":3687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globe-tips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globe-tips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globe-tips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globe-tips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globe-tips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.globe-tips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4036,"href":"https:\/\/www.globe-tips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions\/4036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globe-tips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globe-tips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globe-tips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globe-tips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}