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[–] 17 points 1 month ago

I Have A Beak And I Must Scream

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    In its natural state: screaming at something.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago
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    Now that nesting season is over they're extra vocal.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Compare & contrast, since this Jay was being very bold this morning:

    And a bonus because it amuses me

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)
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    Cue rabbit hole of looking up the Corvidae family tree to work out how closely related they are to the "Eurasian" Jays I'm familiar with. Especially as that beak doesn't look very crow-like. TIL - current hypothesis seems to be they all came from Australian (well, Australasian) origins!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    The hypothesis is that the Corvids / proto-Corvids came from Austalasia, really?

    Btw, if I recall aright, there are other birds called magpies and jays that are not actually corvids.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I acknowledge/blame Wikipedia :)

    Magpies and Jays are in the Corvidae family, but not in the Corvus genus (from the same source, but I'm pretty sure I could back this bit up with real paper books). So, colloquially, corvids, but not true crows.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    No, I'm talking about birds like the Australian magpie, the Magpie-lark, Jay-thruses and the Black magpie. These and others are evidently named that way because they resemble Corvid Jays and Magpies, but aren't actually Corvids at all.

    In fact that kind of thing is quite ordinary when it comes to common names.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    So beautiful.

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    traumatized Timmy noices intensifying

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