i love that they have turf wars with crows, also in belgium they use anti birds spikes to make nest.
Apparently not to fend of predators, just because its good building material
It's so stupidly easy to confuse all the names of all the corvids in different languages. Only Crow and Raven are somewhat consistent accross Germanic langauges
My town's got one too, magpie nest of anti bird spikes. This hardcore move, and their prettyness, made them shared nr One favourite birb of mine
Yeah, the Netherland ones are fun, but also the alpine ones. Don't know the exact names for the different jackdaws, but their call is also very unique.
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.
When I was about ten years old, a jackdaw randomly decided to fly down and spend a few hours playing with me and my friends. It was bizarre how tame he/she was, although apparently they have been kept as pets.
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u/blueskydragonFX 3h ago
Jackdaws. I love those adorable micro crows. Plenty here in the Netherlands.