Don’t forget magpies!
Corvids
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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MasterNerd@lemm.ee 7 months ago
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
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: Image
yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Magpies are the bird equivalent of that person everyone thinks is hot as long as they don’t say anything
akincisor@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
You picked a Hitchcock frame as a meme and didn’t go for one from Birds. Shame!
kbin_space_program@kbin.run 7 months ago
Not pictured:
The adorable, if thiefish Grey Jay, aka the Whiskey Jack.rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Oh wow these are some adorable little dudes.
kbin_space_program@kbin.run 7 months ago
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.
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Magpies are the friendliest birds for people but I almost feel bad about it because they’re dicks to other birds.
exocrinous@startrek.website 7 months ago
In my country everyone hates Magpies because they’re aggressive to people
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
DillyDaily@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Australian Magpies aren’t corvids, they’re butcherbirds, unrelated to the European magpie.
They are dicks though. Cute, but dicks.
Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 7 months ago
can’t wait for corvid-24
veroxii@aussie.zone 7 months ago
That strain of swooping death appears every year around September during Australian magpie swoopy Boi season.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Australian magpies are not corvids not closely related to any of these birds, or to Eurasian magpies.
meeeeetch@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Steller’s Jay fits in with the family and makes sure the blue jay doesn’t get lonely
evolvor@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Scrub jay checking in
Gabu@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That man looks like a mime from hell
jlow@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Where’s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treepie
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
They scream the loudest though.
cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee 7 months ago
The normal looking one looks adopted. Like the native kid from King of the hill
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
“adopted” lol. I think you missed a big sub plot, my guy.
cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I didn’t really watch the show since it’s one of those old boomer cartoons.
muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 7 months ago
I could see him being more metal than his entire family.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
Strive to be the Blue Jay in your family of Ravens.
bam13302@ttrpg.network 7 months ago
Note, this picture is inverted for personality.
Blue jays are very stupid and very aggressive.
MechanicalJester@lemm.ee 7 months ago
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.
FilterItOut@thelemmy.club 7 months ago
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.
PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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?
Kiosade@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
That will never not be funny. Guy nuked his whole fame status in that one moment.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 7 months ago
What’s the context?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I’ve yet to see anything like this emerge from Lemmy itself; no real platform-wide infamous episode. I wonder what the first Lemmy-based episode of Whang! is going to be?
48954246@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No drama yet AFAIK but The Picard Manuveur is everywhere
whotookkarl@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Is there a taxonomy for all black birds? If you could come up with one what would you call it?