Corvids

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• PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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  • Kiosade@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That will never not be funny. Guy nuked his whole fame status in that one moment.

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    • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What’s the context?

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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    • 48954246@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No drama yet AFAIK but The Picard Manuveur is everywhere

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  • whotookkarl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is there a taxonomy for all black birds? If you could come up with one what would you call it?

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• MasterNerd@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t forget magpies!

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Magpies are the bird equivalent of that person everyone thinks is hot as long as they don’t say anything

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    • akincisor@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You picked a Hitchcock frame as a meme and didn’t go for one from Birds. Shame!

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• kbin_space_program@kbin.run ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not pictured:
  The adorable, if thiefish Grey Jay, aka the Whiskey Jack.

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  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh wow these are some adorable little dudes.

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    • kbin_space_program@kbin.run ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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  • exocrinous@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In my country everyone hates Magpies because they’re aggressive to people

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  • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are you sure about that?

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    • DillyDaily@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Australian Magpies aren’t corvids, they’re butcherbirds, unrelated to the European magpie.

      They are dicks though. Cute, but dicks.

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• Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  can’t wait for corvid-24

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  • veroxii@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That strain of swooping death appears every year around September during Australian magpie swoopy Boi season.

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Australian magpies are not corvids not closely related to any of these birds, or to Eurasian magpies.

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• meeeeetch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Steller’s Jay fits in with the family and makes sure the blue jay doesn’t get lonely

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  • evolvor@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Scrub jay checking in

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• Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That man looks like a mime from hell

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• jlow@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Where’s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treepie

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• cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They scream the loudest though.

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• cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The normal looking one looks adopted. Like the native kid from King of the hill

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “adopted” lol. I think you missed a big sub plot, my guy.

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    • cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I didn’t really watch the show since it’s one of those old boomer cartoons.

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• muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I could see him being more metal than his entire family.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Strive to be the Blue Jay in your family of Ravens.

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  • bam13302@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Note, this picture is inverted for personality.

    Blue jays are very stupid and very aggressive.

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    • MechanicalJester@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • FilterItOut@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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