That is a picture of a juvenile rook though, which is unfortunate that the article uses as its flagship picture for the article, because it is quite misleading as to how adult rooks actually looks. It is obviously not fully developed yet.
The other pictures in the article does a better job, and does indeed resembles OPs picture more.
There's rooks, crows and jackdaws around here, and it gets pretty easy to tell them apart. Rooks are slightly bigger than crows and have a thicker, bigger beak (often with the lighter bit near the head). Jackdaws are slightly smaller than crows, and they have this silver-grey top and back of the head
Anyway, I'm pretty sure I shot a took, here. I'll see if I can confirm with a colleague, who is a massive birder, but I'm already pretty confident.
Edit: my confidence was, alas, unfounded, my photo was of a carrion crow.
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OccamsTeapot@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 19d
Rooks are such dudes! That said, isn't this a carrion crow? Or maybe a raven. I don't see the cool, plague-doctor style beak rooks have
tal@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 19d
Are there different species referred to as "rook"?
searches
Apparently just one species.
To my layman's eyes, the WP image of the rook's beak indeed looks pretty different from the submitted one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook_(bird)
Rothe@piefed.social · 4 pts · 19d
That is a picture of a juvenile rook though, which is unfortunate that the article uses as its flagship picture for the article, because it is quite misleading as to how adult rooks actually looks. It is obviously not fully developed yet.
The other pictures in the article does a better job, and does indeed resembles OPs picture more.
doenietzomoeilijk@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 18d
There's rooks, crows and jackdaws around here, and it gets pretty easy to tell them apart. Rooks are slightly bigger than crows and have a thicker, bigger beak (often with the lighter bit near the head). Jackdaws are slightly smaller than crows, and they have this silver-grey top and back of the head
Anyway, I'm pretty sure I shot a took, here. I'll see if I can confirm with a colleague, who is a massive birder, but I'm already pretty confident.
Edit: my confidence was, alas, unfounded, my photo was of a carrion crow.
doenietzomoeilijk@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 17d
You are in fact correct, I asked my birder colleague and he said it was a carrion crow!
OccamsTeapot@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 16d
Nice! If you see a rook you will be able to spot the difference in the beak, definitely!
Aetherial@nord.pub · 1 pts · 15d
Needs a feathery friend to manifest my namesake
sorghum@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 19d
Rook is one of my favorite card games