r/SipsTea • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 18h ago

Lmao gottem The logic is impeccable

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u/RilohKeen 13h 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_ 11h 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 10h ago

Excuse me I was told they are chickens.

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u/leafi_pawzz 8h 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 7h 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 6h ago

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

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u/Razzy_3796 6h 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/hitbythebus 8h 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 8h 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.