Since 2007, the Chargers have worn the alternate powder blue jerseys a total of eleven times, most recently in a December 18, 2011 game vs. the Baltimore Ravens.

Several gulls have been known to predate pelican eggs and nestlings ( including Herring, Ring-billed and California Gull ), as well as Common Ravens.

The Bayhawks have played two seasons at Homewood Field on the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University ( 2001 and 2003 ) and played its home games during the 2002 season at Ravens Stadium now called M & T Bank Stadium in downtown Baltimore, currently the home of the Baltimore Ravens.

Other writers have included Simon Blackwell, Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, John Finnemore, David Mitchell, Richard Ward, Terry Newman, Jonathan Morris, Colin Birch, Carl Carter and Tony Cooke.

Since then, both the relocated Colts and their replacement in Baltimore, the Ravens, have won the Super Bowl and earned trophies in their own right.

The Texans home opener against the Baltimore Ravens was initially postponed one day from Sunday, September 14, 2008 to Monday September 15, but when the extent of the damage from Hurricane Ike became known, the NFL rescheduled the Texans & Ravens game to week 10 ( November 9, 2008 ), which was to have been the bye week for the Ravens and the Texans scheduled home game against the Cincinnati Bengals.

Founded by Stephen McKenna ( a distant relative of the famous James McKenna who hailed from the Terran Hegemony ), the Snow Ravens are a complicated Clan that have taken a unique path due to several catastrophes in their early history.

It also has the Ravens Wood and Darrick Wood Schools, which have been recognised by OFSTED for excellence ( Ravens Wood ) and Outstanding ( Darrick Wood ), being awarded almost top marks in an annual inspection in 2009 and Hayes School in 2011.

Recent genetic studies, which examined the DNA of Common Ravens from across the world, have determined that the birds fall into at least two clades: a California clade, found only in the southwestern United States, and a Holarctic clade, found across the rest of the northern hemisphere.

Common Ravens can be very long-lived, especially in captive or protected conditions ; individuals at the Tower of London have lived for more than 40 years.

Ravens are highly wary around novel carrion sites and, in North America, have been recorded waiting for the presence of American Crows and Blue Jays before approaching to eat.

Instances of non-monogamy have been observed in Common Ravens, by males visiting a female's nest when her mate is away.

Linguist Derek Bickerton, building on the work of Bernd Heindrich, has recently argued that Ravens are one of only four known animals ( the others beings bees, ants, and humans ) who have demonstrated displacement, the capacity to communicate about objects or events that are distant in space or time from the communication.

" This supports the hypothesis that Common Ravens are ' inventors '; that is, they have the ability to solve problems presented to them.

Common Ravens have been observed to manipulate others into doing work for them, such as by calling wolves and coyotes to the site of dead animals.

Common Ravens are widely distributed and are not currently in danger of extinction ; however, there have been some localised declines in populations due to habitat loss and direct persecution.

Common Ravens prey upon juvenile tortoises, which have soft shells and are slow-moving.

Ravens have appeared in the works of Charles Dickens, J. R. R. Tolkien, Stephen King, and Joan Aiken among others.

The Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League have had a raven named " Poe " as their official mascot since the Cleveland Browns relocated in 1995.

The Titans have posted an impressive record at LP Field since moving there in 1999, including winning their first 16 games before losing to the Baltimore Ravens on November 12, 2000.

Like other corvids, such as Ravens and Crows, their total brain to body ratio is equal to that of great apes and cetaceans, and only slightly lower than in humans.

Carrion is a major diet item also: Wedge-tails can spot the activity of Australian Ravens ( sometimes known as crows ) around a carcass from a great distance, and glide down to appropriate it.

Other retired stars, like Art Donovan, had mixed emotions about the Ravens ' arrival: happiness that the great fans of the city now had an NFL team to cheer for again, but also sadness that Cleveland had felt the same loss that Baltimore had in 1984, and a neutral view of the new team itself.

A factor in this was Boller's perceived status of " coming into his own ", and so the Ravens were poised to start what would be a great season by taking on the Indianapolis Colts on the first primetime Sunday Night game of the season.

Late in the first quarter, the Ravens had a great scoring opportunity when defensive back Robert Bailey intercepted a pass from Gannon at the Raiders 19-yard line.

After being abolished on March 3, 1999 due to a lack of success and the ensuing financial burden, the Ravens ' Football team will be making a comeback in the 2013 season.

Part of its success comes from its omnivorous diet ; Common Ravens are extremely versatile and opportunistic in finding sources of nutrition, feeding on carrion, insects, cereal grains, berries, fruit, small animals, and food waste.

Four of five Common Ravens eventually succeeded, and " the transition from no success ( ignoring the food or merely yanking at the string ) to constant reliable access ( pulling up the meat ) occurred with no demonstrable trial-and-error learning.

He is in part credited for the success of the Ravens ' defense, particularly in the 2000 season.

Critics of Fassel have pointed to his lack of success as offensive coordinator after two seasons with the Ravens, in 2004 and 2005.

Inspired by his success with the Ravens, Firedrake breathes fire on it and reduces it to gold paint.

The Ravens triumphed over the New York Giants in Super Bowl XXXV at the conclusion of the 2000 season, making them one of four NFL teams to win in their lone Super Bowl appearance, along with the New Orleans Saints, New York Jets, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The Cowboys lost their final game at Texas Stadium to the Baltimore Ravens, 33 – 24, on December 20, 2008.

The Colts won their first two playoff games against the Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens to return to the AFC Championship Game for the first time since the 2003 game, and they would face the same opponent in the New England Patriots.

Teams such as the Ravens, Bucs, and Eagles copied these innovations in the late 90s, driving up the cost of their jerseys.

Hines Ward of the Steelers sent his personal hyperbaric chamber ,( similar to the one pictured ), to his hotel to sleep in believing it would help heal his sprained medial collateral ligament he suffered in their playoff win against the Ravens.

The group won a recording deal with the " It's A Natural " record label, a subsidiary of Jubilee Records, and changed their name to The Orioles in honor of the state bird of Maryland and in emulation of another popular group, The Ravens.

* Super Bowl XXXV – In their first Super Bowl appearance, the Baltimore Ravens won 34-7 over the New York Giants.

If seen flying at a distance from where size estimates are unreliable, the distinctly larger Common Ravens ( C. corax ) can be distinguished by their almost lozenge-shaped tail, their larger-looking heads and of course their strongly solitary habits.

The Seven Ravens are transformed when their father thinks his sons are playing instead of fetching water to christen their newborn and sickly sister, and curses them.

The Ravens qualified again for the postseason in 2001 as defending Super Bowl Champions, and once more in 2003, winning their first division title.

* " Festivus " was a term used by the 2000 Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League ( NFL ) and their fans to denote the NFL Playoffs.

Both the Texans and Ravens took their unexpected bye week in week 2, the weekend Hurricane Ike hit East Texas and the Gulf Coast, despite the fact that both teams were preparing that whole week to play that game as scheduled.

The Patriots were the beneficiaries of a missed field goal from Ravens kicker Billy Cundiff that saw the Brady and Patriots reach their fifth Super Bowl since Brady joined the team.

However, the Ravens and the Maryland Stadium Authority held firm in their right to negotiate naming rights fees.

One explanation for these surprising genetic findings is that Common Ravens settled in California at least two million years ago and became separated from their relatives in Europe and Asia during an ice age.

Most Common Ravens prefer wooded areas, with large expanses of open land nearby, or coastal regions for their nesting sites and feeding grounds.

Relationships between Common Ravens are often quarrelsome, yet they demonstrate considerable devotion to their families.