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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

You must be really passionate about pigeons to write seven paragraphs of condescension and a veiled insult because of one comment. Or maybe XKCD was right (again) and it's just an ornithologist thing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh dear, have I gotten myself... got?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

You are far from the only one in this thread who has been gotten. You might be the only one to get that you got gotted though...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

old days of reddit and a famous poster called UNIDAN. oh the good ol days. are jackdaws not just crows?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Well idk they’re both corvids. I’d refer to a ‘carrion crow’ as a ‘regular crow’ - black all over, feathers onto the top of the beak, flat head, about the size of a box of Kleenex. A jackdaw is pretty distinct as far as it goes, smaller, more like the size of a mango. They’re also mainly dark grey, with a darker head. Smaller beak. Jackdaws have white or pale green eyes, crows have black eyes. Jackdaws go ‘Aah Aah Aah’, crows go ‘caw caw caw’.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Click the link in the last paragraph for the original.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

History would at least indicate that it's an ornithologist thing.