This is beautiful! It's not often you get to see iridescence depicted in a drawing so I like what I see, here!

Ravens are indeed intelligent, but in the real world they still have limits due to having small brains (they clearly make good use of what they have, though). So with these ravendogs being so much bigger, are they much more intelligent? I'm wondering if, given ravens' resourcefulness with their intelligence, whether they can outsmart humans.

I work with birds for a living, so I can tell you first hand that they could. XD

I get outsmarted by parakeets on a daily basis. Birds in general are more intelligent than people give them credit for; especially hookbills (parrot/parakeet families) and Corvids.

Oh wow, that's quite something! Actually, that really is - I wrote 65 parts of an interactive story once involving birds. The POV character was a flamingo and there's a part where he talks to a group of parakeets in a zoo. I had them down as being overly cautious, but this leaves me wondering if I might have mischaracterised them somewhere.

But to be fair, my flamingo is the Death horseman in flamingo form, and they'd picked up on its fundamental evilness.

They aren’t nearly as intelligent as the bigger parrots, but budgies definitely have smarts. They are technically small parrots, so they can often act like the big guys; even having vocabularies as extensive as some of the big talkers like African greys.

Though a horseman in flamingo form could most definitely outsmart a couple of parakeets. ☺️

Indeed - the spindly leg of evil will not be denied!