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[OC] Carrion crow (corrected, was Rook). (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/pics@lemmy.world
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A high contrast black and white image of a rook, perced on a wooden railing. It's keeping an eye on the photographer, in case he turns out to be dangerous or made out of food.
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[–] 3 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

Are there different species referred to as "rook"?

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Apparently just one species.

To my layman's eyes, the WP image of the rook's beak indeed looks pretty different from the submitted one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook_(bird)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

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