Things everybody needs to hear more often:

[drmcstrange@kolektiva.social]

@schratze there are Little Ravens on King Island, which is part of the state of Tasmania, so it could be that. Maybe we get stragglers too, I don't know.

Yeah, mostly ravens are just the bigger species, but even that isn't consistent. For the Australian species it seems to be more about whether they have hackles (ravens) or not (crows).

[delila@chaos.social]

@skippingmoonrocks @schratze did someone mention jackdaws?

[schratze@todon.nl]

@delila @skippingmoonrocks hi

[skippingmoonrocks@sunny.garden]

@delila @schratze yes! and in an unrelated chat i wanted to show someone a jackdaw flock and dug into my pictures until i found this:

Jackdaws are great!

[skippingmoonrocks@sunny.garden]

@schratze @delila caw!

[nine@chitter.xyz]

@skippingmoonrocks @delila @schratze corvid appreciation thread time! :D

[whangdoodler@piipitin.fi]

@leguinian_utopia @schratze and the sear terrifying size of those things.

good rule of thumb is, if you are wondering if that’s a raven, it is not. if you’re like “holy mother of jesus what the actual hell is that” it might be a raven. or a witch in disguise idk.

[schratze@todon.nl]

@whangdoodler @leguinian_utopia agreed. Except if it's at a great distance with no objects nearby by which to judge the size

[whangdoodler@piipitin.fi]

@leguinian_utopia @schratze my kid just said the other day ”if far enough, every bird is black.” so in above example identification arrives to black bird.

[leguinian_utopia@union.place]

@whangdoodler @schratze They're right

[zenkat@sfba.social]

@schratze The ones in top of Twin Peaks are ravens. Definitely ravens.

The rest of your post checks out, tho. 😸

[teflontrout@beige.party]

@whangdoodler @leguinian_utopia @schratze

A big crow looks like it could steal your lunch

A normal raven looks like you'd better just fucking leave your lunch behind

[delila@chaos.social]

@skippingmoonrocks @schratze caw caw!