Take a seat, young Australian Magpie

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• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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  • JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Is this that copypasta from the guy?

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Unidan, yeah

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  • JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    <The bird was named for its similarity in colouration to the Eurasian magpie; it was a common practice for early settlers to name plants and animals after European counterparts.[11] However, the Eurasian magpie is a member of the Corvidae, while its Australian counterpart is placed in the family Artamidae (although both are members of a broad corvid lineage).

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_magpie

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    TL;DR: bird law is confusing and best left to the experts

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• 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This outravous

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• keepcarrot@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  She became corvid-19 to exact her wrath

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• psud@aussie.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Australian magpies have a much nicer song than any corvid

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• Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What about bluejays? Corvids you know.

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• Khanzarate@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Honestly I think of bluejays and the rest of the family as crows, too. They’re the blue crows. Crows are true crows, but magpies and bluejays and all them are still crows, to me.

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