Corvids
Corvids
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Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
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Don't forget magpies!
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My wife when we first moved to Wyoming: "What a pretty and dainty bird. What is it?"
Me: That's a Magpie.
Magpie: bathes in blood as it feasts on the flesh of a dead elk
My wife:
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You picked a Hitchcock frame as a meme and didn't go for one from Birds. Shame!
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Not pictured:
The adorable, if thiefish Grey Jay, aka the Whiskey Jack.-
Oh wow these are some adorable little dudes.
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Most mountain resorts of BC have them, they'll eat from your hand if you hold it out flat for them.
If they're feeling greedy though they'll also just take unoffered food as you're trying to eat it.
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Magpies are the friendliest birds for people but I almost feel bad about it because they're dicks to other birds.
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In my country everyone hates Magpies because they're aggressive to people
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can't wait for corvid-24
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That strain of swooping death appears every year around September during Australian magpie swoopy Boi season.
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Australian magpies are not corvids. Not closely related to any of these birds, or to Eurasian magpies.
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Steller's Jay fits in with the family and makes sure the blue jay doesn't get lonely
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Scrub jay checking in
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That man looks like a mime from hell
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They scream the loudest though.
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I could see him being more metal than his entire family.
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Strive to be the Blue Jay in your family of Ravens.
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Note, this picture is inverted for personality.
Blue jays are very stupid and very aggressive.
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The stellar jays are dumb, but have learned to not be dixks around the other songbirds where I live.
They do a decent red tailed hawk cry imitation that's wild.
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Aye, the first time a blue jay tore the head off of a smaller bird in its nest was a real head turner for me.
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