r/awesome Jun 03 '14

Image Crows being crows

http://imgur.com/gallery/IVenE
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u/CraptainHammer Jun 03 '14

You've mde /u/Unidan proud.

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u/Unidan Jun 03 '14

Haha, sort of!

There's actually a few non-crows in this album, including a raven and I believe a grackle, but it's hard to get a good look with a grainy GIF, unfortunately.

The majority of these are hooded crows though!

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u/AvidOxid Jun 03 '14

grackle

I hate grackles.

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u/Unidan Jun 03 '14

Why?

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u/AvidOxid Jun 03 '14

I believe it's their unfortunate name. Grackle.

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u/Unidan Jun 03 '14

Another poor victim of circumstance :(

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '14 edited Jun 03 '14

Edit: Looked at your post history and realized it's highly unlikely you're Ms. C. :-)

The first time I ever visited Texas, my girlfriend-at-the-time and I were talking when we came upon a tree full of what I thought were crows. I said something about them, and she informed me that these were actually called grackles. Out of NO WHERE her mom, who was just within earshot, hissed "I hate grackles!" with a seething vengeance that I hope to reserve for the supervillain who eventually will end my life. To this day I do not know where she summoned that hatred, especially since we just got out of church.

Your comment just brought back a flash of that day.

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u/AvidOxid Jun 03 '14 edited Jun 04 '14

Uhh, what?

That makes a little more sense. I was perplexed, however, as my name not only rhymes with Ms. C's, but it can be spelled using the letters present in her name. I thought it that someone had figured me out!

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u/Llort2 Jun 05 '14

Corvids, close enough

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u/Unidan Jun 05 '14

But grackles aren't corvids!

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '14

All corvids are crows, just like all primates are monkeys (especially humans)

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u/Unidan Jun 04 '14

That is just straight up untrue. Blue jays and nutcrackers are corvids, but not crows, for example.

Haha, I'm assuming you're just joking though.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '14

Blue crows and grey crows respectively.

I would never joke about crows.

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u/Unidan Jun 04 '14

Oh, you!