Things everybody needs to hear more often:
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@leguinian_utopia no the calls are the best way to distinguish them. Also the hair tuft on top of the beak, the rhombic tail, and the way ravens soar through the air
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@schratze i generally assume all big, all-black colouration birds are crows until evidence indicates otherwise. If I see one that's impossibly big, THEN I'll possibly think "that MIGHT be a Raven", but even then I'll be checking
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Things everybody needs to hear more often:
- you are loved
- your feelings are valid
- you deserve rest
- you don't need to be available at all times
- that's not a raven, that's a crow
- it's okay. a crow is a pretty big and cool bird, too@schratze here in Tasmania, it's always a raven (or sometimes a currawong, but those have some white on the tail). There are no crows here, the only corvid species is the forest raven.
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Things everybody needs to hear more often:
- you are loved
- your feelings are valid
- you deserve rest
- you don't need to be available at all times
- that's not a raven, that's a crow
- it's okay. a crow is a pretty big and cool bird, too@schratze not if you're in Perth, Melbourne or Sydney! https://birdlife.org.au/news/what-bird-is-that-ravens-and-crows/
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Things everybody needs to hear more often:
- you are loved
- your feelings are valid
- you deserve rest
- you don't need to be available at all times
- that's not a raven, that's a crow
- it's okay. a crow is a pretty big and cool bird, too@schratze
»you are loved« must sound bitter to people who aren't -
@schratze here in Tasmania, it's always a raven (or sometimes a currawong, but those have some white on the tail). There are no crows here, the only corvid species is the forest raven.
@DrMcStrange Wikipedia also lists the Little Raven, but that seems to be more of a random visitor?
I feel like I need to point out that there's no clear distinction between crows and ravens. They're both birds in the Corvus genus, but there are several species called crow and several called raven without clear criteria for which species gets which common name.
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Things everybody needs to hear more often:
- you are loved
- your feelings are valid
- you deserve rest
- you don't need to be available at all times
- that's not a raven, that's a crow
- it's okay. a crow is a pretty big and cool bird, too@schratze ravens >= crows and rooks >= jackdaws mostly I think. Rooks have a whitish beak, crows have black. Not a bird expert. I often see a pair of crows on my walk and have been trying to get them to come closer for food.
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@DrMcStrange Wikipedia also lists the Little Raven, but that seems to be more of a random visitor?
I feel like I need to point out that there's no clear distinction between crows and ravens. They're both birds in the Corvus genus, but there are several species called crow and several called raven without clear criteria for which species gets which common name.
@schratze there are Little Ravens on King Island, which is part of the state of Tasmania, so it could be that. Maybe we get stragglers too, I don't know.
Yeah, mostly ravens are just the bigger species, but even that isn't consistent. For the Australian species it seems to be more about whether they have hackles (ravens) or not (crows).
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@schratze yeah, it's all goat.
I have one friend who mistakes jackdaws for rooks all the time.
@skippingmoonrocks @schratze did someone mention jackdaws?
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@skippingmoonrocks @schratze did someone mention jackdaws?
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@skippingmoonrocks @schratze did someone mention jackdaws?
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@skippingmoonrocks @delila @schratze corvid appreciation thread time!
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@leguinian_utopia no the calls are the best way to distinguish them. Also the hair tuft on top of the beak, the rhombic tail, and the way ravens soar through the air
@leguinian_utopia @schratze and the sear terrifying size of those things.
good rule of thumb is, if you are wondering if that’s a raven, it is not. if you’re like “holy mother of jesus what the actual hell is that” it might be a raven. or a witch in disguise idk.
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@leguinian_utopia @schratze and the sear terrifying size of those things.
good rule of thumb is, if you are wondering if that’s a raven, it is not. if you’re like “holy mother of jesus what the actual hell is that” it might be a raven. or a witch in disguise idk.
@whangdoodler @leguinian_utopia agreed. Except if it's at a great distance with no objects nearby by which to judge the size
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@whangdoodler @leguinian_utopia agreed. Except if it's at a great distance with no objects nearby by which to judge the size
@leguinian_utopia @schratze my kid just said the other day ”if far enough, every bird is black.” so in above example identification arrives to black bird.
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Things everybody needs to hear more often:
- you are loved
- your feelings are valid
- you deserve rest
- you don't need to be available at all times
- that's not a raven, that's a crow
- it's okay. a crow is a pretty big and cool bird, too@schratze The ones in top of Twin Peaks are ravens. Definitely ravens.
The rest of your post checks out, tho.
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@leguinian_utopia @schratze and the sear terrifying size of those things.
good rule of thumb is, if you are wondering if that’s a raven, it is not. if you’re like “holy mother of jesus what the actual hell is that” it might be a raven. or a witch in disguise idk.
@whangdoodler @leguinian_utopia @schratze
A big crow looks like it could steal your lunch
A normal raven looks like you'd better just fucking leave your lunch behind
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@skippingmoonrocks @schratze caw caw!
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@schratze in my world it's usually a jackdaw being mistaken for a crow
@skippingmoonrocks @schratze Yeah I made that mistake a lot when I first moved here (Aberdeenshire) — once I heard their voices I soon figured it out
