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 yeah, it's all goat.
I have one friend who mistakes jackdaws for rooks all the time.
@leguinian_utopia @schratze and the sear terrifying size of those things.
good rule of thumb is, if you are wondering if thatโs a raven, it is not. if youโre like โholy mother of jesus what the actual hell is thatโ 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
@TeflonTrout @whangdoodler @leguinian_utopia @schratze
I see crows all the time, bigger than pigeons, smaller than seagulls. I don't have a mental image of the size of a raven. I'm tempted to say seagull sized, but now as I type I recall "seagull" is like twenty different species and my local seagulls might not be at all like any of yours. Big enough that you could imagine one eating a whole pigeon
@elithebearded @whangdoodler @leguinian_utopia @schratze
Ravens are the size youd expect from a bird of prey instead of a corvid
no not that kind
the klingon kind
are they like several time bigger than crows?
@xarvos @IngaLovinde @whangdoodler @leguinian_utopia no.
Common raven wingspan is 116 to 153 cm. Carrion crow wingspan is 84 to 100 cm.
@IngaLovinde @schratze @whangdoodler @leguinian_utopia this blog post has a wingspan comparison. very much ๐คฏ
https://blogs.ubc.ca/communicatingscience2019w112/2019/11/27/crows-vs-ravens-an-underdog-story/
@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).
In the leadup to this yearโs Aussie Bird Count, Sean Dooley is talking us through how to tell the difference between commonly confused backyard birds. In this video, weโre learning all about Crows and Ravens โ and the easiest ways to tell Australiaโs 5 species apart according to their location and calls.
@schratze @flaubau fun fact is that in Russia, the word for "crow" and "raven" is the same, the only difference is grammatical gender (female for crow, male for raven).
Another fun fact is that the crow in the movie "Crow" (including the movie title) was translated with male grammatical gender (i.e. as "raven").
@IngaLovinde @flaubau ah, the two genders.
What gender do rooks get? And jackdaws?
@IngaLovinde @flaubau oh, interesting. It's a Turm (tower) in German.
The English words for the bird and the chess piece have no connection. The bird's name is derived from onomatopoeia for its call. the chess piece name has a Middle Persian root which may or may not be related to a Sanskrit word for chariot
Ravens can be identified by their quothing โNevermoreโ
@schratze "you are loved" were the last words I said to my mum that I know she heard from me before she died.
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