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show transcriptA collage of crows in various poses with the caption: "This is a crow appreciation post" An image of a crow walking with the caption "strut!" An image of a polite looking crow with the caption "this one looks so polite" A list at the center of the image that says: "Crows are: - beautiful - intelligent - sassy - amazing" An image of a crow flying with the caption "graceful af" An image of a crow with it's beak open with the caption"you too could yell 'CAAAAW' ominously nothing's stopping you" The remaining captions are without accompanying images: "Just look at them?!!" "a group of crows is a 'murder' how badass does that sound? very." "I just love crows." The image is watermarked as "@undeaderthanthou"

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Fun fact: that’s a baby crow! [Edit: or more likely, a baby raven.]

Only young crows have pink/red inside their mouths. Adults have black mouths. I learned this after we started feeding crows at our house and in the summer I noticed some had bright mouths. It’s the only distinguishing feature because by the time the babies are out of the nest, they’re as big as the adults!

Though the way they followed the adults around and begged to be fed also distinguished them a bit!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

That is adorable.

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

Fun fact: that might be a raven considering the man on the chair is a famous german singer called Max Raabe (Raabe is raven in german).

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

Ah, actually that seems likely! I’ve only ever seen bright red mouths on baby crows, so this being pink was a bit of a surprise, but it seems pink is normal for fledgling ravens. The feathers extending onto the beak also do indicate it’s more likely a raven.

Thanks for the call out!