Here’s the thing. You said “Crows and Jackdaws are the same.”
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.
Crows and Jackdaws are the same.
Here’s the thing. You said “Crows and Jackdaws are the same.”
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?
I used to know someone who insisted that blue jays were a type of crow. She had a biology degree, and seemed very proud to educate me.
They’re corvids, so she’s not wrong
Here’s the thing…
I have a family of blue jays in my backyard. I also have some crows that are pretty regular.
I know Jack and Daw about birds, but I cannot draw the slightest similarity between the two, other than both being feathered dinosaurs.
I have no problem admitting when I’m wrong buds but I’m not wrong here.
They are both corvids, but they are distinct species.
Literally the same bird but I don’t think either have covid.
Literally different birds, and we’re on bird flu now anyway.
Maybe they are different birds but they are the same species.
I get your reference, chum
They’re not even the same genus…
I might be above average intelligence but I’m no genius.
meanwhile the ravens are hiding from this conversation