Not exactly- his species is probably more closely related to a platypus or echidna than either of the animals he actually looks like given some of their other traits. But they behave similarly enough in the wild to ravens that they fill very similar roles.

[ Crow gives Trassel a curiously cautious churr, tucking his head down into ruffed-up chest plumage. Like the human he's perched on, Crow can recognize something when something that could eat him if it really, really wanted to. He's never encountered a wolf before, so he's going off some very rough natural instincts about how not to make himself look un-food-like as possible. Alex can feel the long, shaggy tail curling and uncurling against his back. ]