How to tell a raven from a crow (2012)
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How to tell a raven from a crow (2012)
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Re: How to tell a raven from a crow (2012)
#2Ravens are huge and they make a sound that to me sounds hilariously like a person doing a bad imitation of a crow.
Re: How to tell a raven from a crow (2012)
#3There are also grackles, some of them mostly black, that are mistaken for crows.
Easier to tell the difference if you can gauge the size. This picture with a 1 foot ruler is helpful:
https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/uploadedImages/Content/Preventi...
Re: How to tell a raven from a crow (2012)
#4Sounds timely now that Games of Thrones starts again
Re: How to tell a raven from a crow (2012)
#5Taxonomically, ravens and crows are not distinct clades. That is to say, not all the species we label "crows" are more closely related to each other than they are to all of the species we label "ravens," and vice versa.
Re: How to tell a raven from a crow (2012)
#6Aren't ravens the birds with the Spy-vs-Spy behaviors?
Re: How to tell a raven from a crow (2012)
#7Ravens are huge and they make a sound that to me sounds hilariously like a person doing a bad imitation of a crow.
Sometimes written "gronk", although they are actually songbirds.
Re: How to tell a raven from a crow (2012)
#8I read that as "cow" and thought: "Well that can't be too hard. Wonder what this article is about."
Re: How to tell a raven from a crow (2012)
#9An old English farmer with a strong Dorset accent once explained the difference to me:
“If you see a raven, and there’s only one of them, that’s a crow that is. If you see a crow and there’s lots of them, that’s a raven, that is”.
Simple!
Re: How to tell a raven from a crow (2012)
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