• OccamsTeapot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    Rooks are such dudes! That said, isn’t this a carrion crow? Or maybe a raven. I don’t see the cool, plague-doctor style beak rooks have

      • Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        That is a picture of a juvenile rook though, which is unfortunate that the article uses as its flagship picture for the article, because it is quite misleading as to how adult rooks actually looks. It is obviously not fully developed yet.

        The other pictures in the article does a better job, and does indeed resembles OPs picture more.

        • doenietzomoeilijk@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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          1 day ago

          There’s rooks, crows and jackdaws around here, and it gets pretty easy to tell them apart. Rooks are slightly bigger than crows and have a thicker, bigger beak (often with the lighter bit near the head). Jackdaws are slightly smaller than crows, and they have this silver-grey top and back of the head

          Anyway, I’m pretty sure I shot a took, here. I’ll see if I can confirm with a colleague, who is a massive birder, but I’m already pretty confident.

          Edit: my confidence was, alas, unfounded, my photo was of a carrion crow.