Re:Footage of Australian Raven Attacking a Wing Drone in Can...
by 0xdeadb00f on Monday September 20, 2021 @07:59AM
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Is that a Raven? It looks and sounds like the typical crow you see around QLD Australia.
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Re:Footage of Australian Raven Attacking a Wing Drone in Can...
by caf on Monday September 20, 2021 @08:17AM
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Queensland has both Australian Crows and Australian Ravens. The tropical north and Western Australia has Australian Crows, and the south-east has only the Australian Ravens.
They're often confused, but this video is in Canberra so a Raven it is.
Re:Footage of Australian Raven Attacking a Wing Drone in Can...
by chrismorgan on Monday September 20, 2021 @01:32PM
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The confusion is made worse by the fact that the bird supposedly called a raven (though whether it’s Corvus coronoides or Corvus mellori or something else I can’t certainly say right now) is, at least in Melbourne and the part of western Victoria where I now live, exclusively called a crow. If you called it a raven, many, perhaps most, people wouldn’t know what you were talking about, because we simply don’t have any bird called a raven, though we might have some vague sneaking notion that they’re a northern hemisphere version of our crows or something like that.
I can’t confidently speak further than that, but I’m under the impression the same is true in Sydney.
If taxonomists call them ravens but everyone else calls them crows, I wish the taxonomists would accept the reality that usage defines language, not encyclopædia, and give up on trying to pretend they’re ravens and not crows.
Re:Footage of Australian Raven Attacking a Wing Drone in Can...
by kragen on Monday September 20, 2021 @06:24PM
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Zoologists don't care what random Australians think of them; they want to communicate successfully with other zoologists.
Re:Footage of Australian Raven Attacking a Wing Drone in Can...
by chrismorgan on Monday September 20, 2021 @11:48PM
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That’s what scientific names are for. If the supposed “common names” is not what anyone calls it other than them, then that common name is wrong and should be retired.
Re:Footage of Australian Raven Attacking a Wing Drone in Can...
by ravendroneguy on Monday September 20, 2021 @08:11AM
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Corvus coroinodes- Australian raven - according to the book of Canberra garden birds.