This is a great, very expressive work! I can just hear it! They are really smart birds.
I just ran into it because it was re-blogged by someone who had just upvoted me, so I was checking what they were up to, and your post was on top of their profile.

“Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!—
Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted—
On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore—
Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
excerpt: THE RAVEN by Edgar Allan Poe

I had for a time done small paintings of mice - they sold like hotcakes! As for Raven, I was influenced in my version by Northwest Coast Native lore: RAVEN - this piece should be in an upcoming exhibition next Spring in Seattle.