• huginn@feddit.it
    182·
    3 months ago

    Here’s the thing. You said a “jackdaw is a crow.”

    Is it in the same family? Yes. No one’s arguing that.

    As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.

    If you’re saying “crow family” you’re referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens.

    So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people “call the black ones crows?” Let’s get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.

    Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how taxonomy works. They’re both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that’s not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you’d call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don’t.

    It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?

    …

    …

    … It’s been a decade since Unidan made that comment

    • asudox@programming.devOP
      6·
      3 months ago

      Thanks for the GNU/Linux like meme. I realized what pathetic amateur I am at differentiating a crow from a jackdaw and fixed my pathetic mistake. I shall not make the same mistake ever again.

      • huginn@feddit.it
        7·
        3 months ago

        ensure you don’t

        What’s crazy is the original poster was something of a superuser on reddit. First to 1 million karma iirc

        And he lost basically all popularity after that comment.

        In retrospect: it was pedantic but so mundane. He was just being a prototypical redditor

          • huginn@feddit.it
            5·
            3 months ago

            Oh yeah it’s not like it stopped him in reality but it burned his most popular acct

  • KevinFRK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    Nice shot, and interesting to see a Jackdaw with such odd feathers (given they “ought” to be black and a bit of a darker gray around the head). Also, was this taken inside a food court or similar?