I think I might be a guy who likes looking at birds.
I realize this is excellent if true, Taiwan has many excellent birds.
Gonna buy me a huge-fuck off zoom lens and too expensive binoculars and a pair of wading pants and go learn about responsibly hunting water fowl for glamor shots.
That shot with the beetle in mid air is fucking fantastic
Thanks! I was fuckin around too much with my settings on this trip and unfortunately lost too many good shots to slightly out of focus birds, but I’m super glad I caught that moment nonetheless.
Walking home through the woods/swampland behind my house for what feels like the first "real" day of spring just now, I stumbled upon a big brown winged fella: tallest bird I think I've ever seen in person that close (maybe two feet tall+?), and was kind of shaped like a bowling pin? It put me in mind of a dodo, and when he noticed me, rather than taking flight did a sort of Zoidberg-woob-woob-woob-woo away through the woods and towards the pond, sort of like a turkey waddle
Any idea what I just saw out there? I was probably twenty-thirty feet away, but the leaves in the woods are all waking up, he moved pretty quickly (if kinda awkwardly) and my eyesight's not great, so a bit short on identifying features
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anyway important update on the ongoing saga of me losing my mind trying to figure out if I have crows or ravens living around here: I'm now back to thinking they are ravens that just gather up when there's a bunch of food left out, because they distinctly make a lot of rhythmic clicking sort of calls that I don't think crows do. I can't find any good videos documenting different kinds of raven noises on youtube to show an example, but I did find a couple of ravens making sort of similar noises. If y'all know any good resources for exhaustively cataloguing the kinds of calls ravens and crows make with example audio, that would be helpful. I always find text descriptions of birdcalls to be rather unhelpful.
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Ravens have a wingspan around four-five feet, almost double a crow’s. My rule of thumb is that if you see a corvid bird and think, “I wonder if that’s a raven?” it’s probably a crow. If you see a corvid bird and think, “holy shit that’s a large bird” it could be a raven.
There are morphological differences. Ravens have heavier beaks, throat plumage, and tend to travel in pairs while crows will flock.
Yeah I'm going by the behavioral differences a lot, the big black corvids here are usually solitary or in pairs, except when there's a pile of food left out, and then they gather in a bigger group temporarily. The beaks and plumage though I cannot tell at all. If there were a crow and raven next to each other I could tell, but it's just one of the species here.
Honestly this should be all you need to differentiate between the larger corvids. Toss a small handful of nuts or french fries on the ground and get your camera ready with a nice zoom and you should be ready to analyze.
Okay so that snip should be like 400x400 but the forums are being the forums so I've spoiled it, Jesu Christo.
sure it's easy to pick out the difference when they're standing right next to each other and you can take a close up photograph
when it's just one or the other though it's impossible to tell, they're the same picture etc.
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It's... really not impossible to tell them apart.
I don't understand what you're doing by asking for advice and then saying that no one could really know?
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Look at this borb. This absolute unit.
I realize this is excellent if true, Taiwan has many excellent birds.
Gonna buy me a huge-fuck off zoom lens and too expensive binoculars and a pair of wading pants and go learn about responsibly hunting water fowl for glamor shots.
Thanks! I was fuckin around too much with my settings on this trip and unfortunately lost too many good shots to slightly out of focus birds, but I’m super glad I caught that moment nonetheless.
Speaking of which did you know the Audubon society wrote a new article about Borbs and Floofs after the success of their Birb article:
https://www.audubon.org/news/whats-difference-between-borb-and-floof#:~:text=This, then, is Audubon's taxonomy,when the mood suits them.
Any idea what I just saw out there? I was probably twenty-thirty feet away, but the leaves in the woods are all waking up, he moved pretty quickly (if kinda awkwardly) and my eyesight's not great, so a bit short on identifying features
It was a cool experience!
We get Northern Flickers out here in CA when fall comes around
There are morphological differences. Ravens have heavier beaks, throat plumage, and tend to travel in pairs while crows will flock.
Okay so that snip should be like 400x400 but the forums are being the forums so I've spoiled it, Jesu Christo.
when it's just one or the other though it's impossible to tell, they're the same picture etc.
I don't understand what you're doing by asking for advice and then saying that no one could really know?