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Distinctive calls While it's hard to identify the birds by sight, listening to their idiosyncratic calls is a comparatively reliable way to tell them apart.

The researchers said RAVEN is around the scale and weight of a crow, at 1.3 pounds (600 grams), with a roughly 40-inch (100 centimeters) wingspan and 20-inch (50 cm) body.