Deplorable Crows

[RoryN]

https://i.imgur.com/ujZ1VzF.gif

 

[Que]

I have no idea how and when crows interact with people but I do know that that's not a crow Rory.

Get yourself a field guide.

Rory fail!

 

[Ann_Tagonist]

https://s.hswstatic.com/gif/ostrich.jpg

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[Que]

Must be. Has black feathers, right?

 

[Que]

Crow court is a real thing.

I swear I love this board because sometimes it makes me feel like I'm the only one who knows anything about anything and I love it. You can't find that anywhere else on the internet.

How do you not know about crow court? It's this huge thing, there are legends and folklore and stories about it from pretty much every culture in the world.

When a crow is accused of a crime, it must go before the tribunal and plead its case. It stands in the middle of a circle and gives its defense. If it's found to be innocent, the circle just flies off. If it's found to be guilty the arbiters descend and tear it limb from limb.

I've never heard of such a thing but it would make sense that they would want the Intruder to identify itself but I would think they would already know who it is or not.

What's the defence? Look fellas, I was just passing through I'll be on my way right now.

 

[CandiCame]

I have no idea how and when crows interact with people but I do know that that's not a crow Rory.

Get yourself a field guide.

Rory fail!

According to the 2018 edition of Corvids, Crows, and Jays of North America, the field guide most commonly used by bird enthusiasts, that's a North American Common Crow.

Most closely related to and sometimes confused for the Fish Crow. There's an illustration I bet I can find on google.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61LWR1R7L8L._SX700_.jpg

Jesus lord in heaven.

 

[RoryN]

"Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers. In common English, they are known as the crow family or, more technically, corvids."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvidae

 

[CandiCame]

I've never heard of such a thing but it would make sense that they would want the Intruder to identify itself but I would think they would already know who it is or not.

What's the defence? Look fellas, I was just passing through I'll be on my way right now.

I don't know, I don't speak crow, but there's a million legends and folklore associated with it.

For example, humans aren't supposed to witness a crow court, so if you do there's one of two things associated with it.

Either the murder respects you enough that it considers you part of the group or

You have seen something that you were not supposed to see and are now "marked" by the murder and must live the rest of your days in fear that your transgression will have consequences. Because crows have that trickster/thief connotation I already mentioned there are supernatural elements at play in this outcome, and they can "steal" shit like your life or your soul.

I don't believe in any of that nonsense it's just interesting to me that other people didn't know those legends because they're so common. Like there are kids stories and creepypastas and everything. But now you know and I would heartily recommend reading them/listening to the stories because if you like scary stories they're pretty cool.

 

[Que]

"Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers. In common English, they are known as the crow family or, more technically, corvids."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvidae

Doubling down?

What you posted was not in the Corvidae family.

It is in the Icteridae family. You know? Like the Baltimore Crows <sic>

 

[RoryN]

https://i.imgur.com/NZJ8aar.jpg

 

[Ann_Tagonist]

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/assets/photo/59859171-480px.jpg

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not a crow

 

[Que]

I don't know, I don't speak crow, but there's a million legends and folklore associated with it.

For example, humans aren't supposed to witness a crow court, so if you do there's one of two things associated with it.

Either the murder respects you enough that it considers you part of the group or

You have seen something that you were not supposed to see and are now "marked" by the murder and must live the rest of your days in fear that your transgression will have consequences. Because crows have that trickster/thief connotation I already mentioned there are supernatural elements at play in this outcome, and they can "steal" shit like your life or your soul.

I don't believe in any of that nonsense it's just interesting to me that other people didn't know those legends because they're so common. Like there are kids stories and creepypastas and everything. But now you know and I would heartily recommend reading them/listening to the stories because if you like scary stories they're pretty cool.

That is pretty cool.

Always up for learning new things. Unlike our friend Rory who, of course, already knows everything.

 

[Que]

According to the 2018 edition of Corvids, Crows, and Jays of North America, the field guide most commonly used by bird enthusiasts, that's a North American Common Crow.

Most closely related to and sometimes confused for the Fish Crow. There's an illustration I bet I can find on google.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61LWR1R7L8L._SX700_.jpg

Jesus lord in heaven.

Try again. That's a field guide for Crows and Ctow cousins.

Not for "not-crows."

I will of course eat crow, if I am wrong, but the tail is too long as our the legs and it is far too small to be an adult crow. I can't see the eyes well but they appeared to me to not be the eyes of a crow. The beak is wrong as well.

 

[CandiCame]

Doubling down?

What you posted was not in the Corvidae family.

It is in the Icteridae family. You know? Like the Baltimore Crows <sic>

Dude, I'm literally looking at the field guide and no it's not. Icteridae are smaller, thinner, have a slightly different beak and leg shape. The only Icteridae that you could possibly mistake for a crow is a Great Tailed Grackle. This is an Icteridae.

https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/sites/default/files/styles/centered_full/public/media/field-guide/Great-Tailed_Grackle_male_6-27-17.jpg?itok=Et3Jl0Sh

What he posted was a fucking north American crow.

https://onthewildside812.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/amcr.jpg

 

[Que]

Bingo.

Give that man a cookie.

You have two pictures right in front of you which one does Rory's look like?

 

[CandiCame]

"Look at a field guide!"
"No, not that field guide!"

 

[Ann_Tagonist]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/db/01/a1/db01a153a3b6bc425ae85990a35e11ac.png

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not a crow

 

[RoryN]

The GB deplorables always double down when they're wrong.

Alternative facts, dontcha know.

*popcorn*

 

[CandiCame]

Bingo.

Give that man a cookie.

You have two pictures right in front of you which one does Rory's look like?

THE NORTH AMERICAN CROW!

HOW ARE YOU THIS BAD AT BIRD IDENTIFICATION!?

Edit: To clarify, look at how fuckin scrawny the grackle is. Look at how it has cool undertones, not warm, look at the FUCKING SIZE difference. Look at the beak shape and the leg placement. Like Jesus Christ they don't look the same at all.

Do all blackbirds look the same to you!?

 

[Ann_Tagonist]

THE NORTH AMERICAN CROW!

HOW ARE YOU THIS BAD AT BIRD IDENTIFICATION!?

They we were, sittin' by the dumpster, smokin' cigs with a some birds that may or may not have been crows...

 

[Que]

You've grown up around poultry. Crows are almost the size of a chicken they weigh almost a pound. Look at that grackle next to that water bottle it's nowhere near the size of a crow. The body is too lean and it is far too much tail compared to body to be a crow.

It's a lot closer to a blackbird than a crow.

I've seen blackbirds up-close-and-personal in Idaho. I have seen grackles shit on my car just this week.

 

[CandiCame]

It's just so weird to me because Rory's right, it speaks to the mindset. It doesn't matter what it is, they just can't be wrong about anything. The way they're treating identifying a bird is the same way they treat shit that matters. That's why it's bothering me.

Like they can say, "Look at the field guide" and when you pull out the fucking field guide they still just stubbornly look at a crow and say it's not a crow, in complete defiance of reality.

In the say way that they call legal asylum seekers "illegals" when you pull out the law book.

They are just disconnected from reality and it's fucking aggravating.

 

[Que]

They we were, sittin' by the dumpster, smokin' cigs with a some birds that may or may not have been crows...

We know for sure, he can't identify a grackle.

 

[RoryN]

Do all blacks look the same to you!?

https://i.imgur.com/ShKOS2b.gif

(And yes - to him, they do.)

 

[Ann_Tagonist]

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/713eJLhkY0L._SX425_.jpg

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