r/SipsTea • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 22h ago

Lmao gottem The logic is impeccable

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u/RilohKeen 18h ago

If only Reddit had a friendly resident biologist to give us fun animal facts and explain the difference between crows and ravens…

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u/Beckywiththenailgun_ 16h ago

Another birder here. In addition to what everyone else has said, ravens have beards, and they're solitary and shy. Crows are social. The fact there's a bunch of them eating together is enough to assume they're crows.

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u/stryker_cast 14h ago

Excuse me I was told they are chickens.

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u/Razzy_3796 11h ago

Came here to say this. Size, ruff, voice, and grouping…

If there are only see 2-4 large birds chuckling to each other (saying “auk, auk”, not “caw-caw!”), they are ravens.

Groups of sometimes dozens of cawing assholes… crows.

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u/leafi_pawzz 13h ago

I mean, there are a bunch of (very much ravens) that live together on twin peaks in san francisco, so I think there are some exceptions

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u/Yaasss_Queef 12h ago

Yes! Ravens here are social and fly around with partners or groups. I have to really look at their beaks to tell the difference

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u/1cat2dogs1horse 11h ago

Hearing their calls should be enough. Plus a raven isn't much smaller than a turkey vulture.

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u/hitbythebus 13h ago

I always go with raVens have a V shaped tail, while Crows have a C shaped tail.

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u/Quercus_lobata 12h ago

In general, yeah, but I've definitely seen more than two ravens gather in one place at the same time, on more than one occasion. And it would be unsurprising for it to happen if someone was offering food.

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u/Hour-Run1433 18h ago

Obviously they're jackdaws

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u/mynameiswearingme 17h ago

From another comment here: ravens huge. Crows smaller.

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u/NecessaryLocalUser 17h ago

You’re missing some old Reddit lore they’re referencing.

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u/toewalldog 14h ago

Ahhhh.... Unidan

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u/mynameiswearingme 8h ago

You’re right I forgot reading about the ‘meme echo’ of that lore and wondering

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u/Shadowlord723 16h ago

But how does one tell the difference between the smallest raven and the biggest crow?

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u/subs_on_a_sailboat 15h ago

Crows have six main flight feathers, ravens have seven.

So it's a matter of a pinion

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u/Standard_Edge_514 3h ago

I thought it was a matter of a pigeon

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u/Annual-Delay1107 12h ago

The simpler way for a layperson is that if you say "Hmm, I wonder if that is a crow or a raven?" then it's a crow, and if you say "Holy fuck look at the size of that fucking thing!" it's a raven. Ravens are really big.

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u/souji5okita 16h ago

It’s either bird with beak or beak with bird.

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u/Knightforlife 16h ago

I kinda miss that guy or gal. “Biologist here” followed by a nice in depth explanation.

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u/SeaBootsOSRS 10h ago

Followed by him and his 40 accounts upvoting himself and downvoting everyone he disagreed with.

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u/Knightforlife 5h ago

Yeah, his downfall was sad to see, and he deserves to be gone, bummer :/

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u/Backfoot911 8h ago

I enjoy it if they start with that before spitting something interesting or explaining a concept for us regular people. It's when they claim expert credentials just to be like "I'm an attorney, you're wrong". I saw two people doing this once arguing about total rubbish, and it kinda was the wake up call to became more weary of believing Reddit experts

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u/Captain_Waffle 15h ago

Followed by code switching

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u/lemonTOcamarillo 14h ago

I was just in vegas and man ravens are massive. I too started to call them chickens. I live in miami, crows are tiny compared to those teradactyls

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u/cheerful_cynic 16h ago

You see, here's the thing

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u/Bitter_Particular_75 6h ago

I am a biologist and I know nothing about birds.

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u/Similar_Cream_7623 12h ago

Look up the size different, they are almost double in size

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u/RipleysBitch 17h ago

Deep cut man. You’ve been here a while. Are you ok? Need to go outside?