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:
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.
Yeah some of his posts were just flat wrong too, but it was like shouting against a hurricane with how popular he was.
He knew his crow stuff, no doubt, but people thought he was like Reddit’s biologist who was an expert on every subfield which of course no one is. But he didn’t seem to want to admit that and instead posted some nonsense.
The short of it is that there was a Reddit poweruser named Unidan who had a background in bird science. Very popular, very often upvoted, tons of karma.
Unfortunately he was found to be vote manipulating on sockpuppets to elevate his content and downvote others, and IIRC this infamous jackdaw copypasta is the one that blew his cover.
Note, this picture is inverted for personality.
Blue jays are very stupid and very aggressive.
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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Australian Magpies aren’t corvids, they’re butcherbirds, unrelated to the European magpie.
They’re cute, but they’re definitely dicks.
Stop making my back hurt by saying that