Kutkh, a recurring figure in the myths of Kamchatka natives and the Chukchi people, takes the form of this animal. A story from Haida myth describes how one of these figures freed women from a chiton after freeing men from a clam; that story was depicted in a Bill Reid sculpture named for this figure "and the First Men." The name of Bran the Blessed, a character from the Mabinogion, translates as this type of creature. Morrigan assumes this shape for some sexual encounters, and two of them leave (*) Hlidskjalf every morning, gather the news of 
Kutkh, a recurring figure in the myths of Kamchatka natives and the Chukchi people, takes the form of this animal. A story from Haida myth describes how one of these figures freed women from a chiton after freeing men from a clam; that story was depicted in a Bill Reid sculpture named for this figure "and the First Men." The name of Bran the Blessed, a character from the Mabinogion, translates as this type of creature. Morrigan assumes this shape for some sexual encounters, and two of them leave (*) Hlidskjalf every morning, gather the news of the world, and return to Odin; those two are named "thought" and "memory," or Hugin and Munin. For 10 points, identify this animal, a popular trickster figure among tribes of the Pacific Northwest, which is often conflated with its smaller relative, the crow.
Kutkh, a recurring figure in the myths of Kamchatka natives and the Chukchi people, takes the form of this animal.
{raven} [accept {crow} until mentioned due to conflation]