Because they're carrion birds.
So the difference between a raven and a crow is only a matter of a pinion.
It is a conspiracy.
It’s a matter of a pinion!
A conspiracy to commit murder.
It was Poe-sessed!
I love a good murder conspiracy
An Edgar Allen Poem.
To make long distance caws.
It’s imPOEsible to tell
I was raven for hours.
Thought it was Corvid-19, but then bird flu away. Think I will see him nevermore.
I'm Australian, in Australia, specifically southern Australia. Very specifically, southern Victoria. Anyway. I took a long drive on Friday, out to Halls Gap, which is a beautiful part of the world. Oddly, I noticed along the way a significant amount of dead crows on the side of the road. Now I'm of county stock, and I know well that crows (although technically ravens I believe) are an extraordinarily intelligent bird, and it's very rare that you see one fallen by the roadside. As such, it was obvious to me as unusual. So I looked it up, and as it happened there'd been a study conducted regarding the very road I'd driven down. Turns out, this particular road was notorious for dead crows on account of two very basic reasons, the first, it's proximity to bushland which ensured a considerable amount of regular road kill (possums, kangaroos, etcetera) and second, the road was a significant trucking route. It follows logic, although I did not see it at the time, that it was determined that the trucks, rather than the cars which used the road were to blame regarding the amount of dead crows. How so, you ask? I, too, was interested to know. You see, the front of the average car in these modern times is made of plastic and paint whereas the Australian cross-country truck is equipped with a large alloy bullbar. A crow, when hit by a car will have chips of paint transferred onto its feathers whereas one downed by a truck will have none. Now crows are not usually struck by vehicles, as they are a very intelligent bird. As such, they employ a sentry bird, which looks out as the others eat from the road, and warns them of any approaching danger. Such is the intelligence of the crows! So why should they perish by truck in such numbers? The answer amazed me. As it turns out, a sentry crow sees the approaching vehicle and calls to his friends CAR! CAR! CAR! but he can't say truck
Because each starts with an e and ends with an e.
There’s caws for alarm.
Dad: I'm hungry.
Daughter: nice to meet you, Hungry.
Dad: actually, Hungry is my nickname.
Daughter: really? how'd you get it?
Dad: I used to be a bird trainer.
Daughter: what does that have to do with it?
Dad: I was known for being quite raven-ous.
A crowbar
He was a Poe source of information.
Well you see, a Crow has 4 pinion feathers on their wings while a Raven has only 3. So really, it's just a matter of a pinion.
A good friend told me a story once. When she was a kid her family would often go to zoos and museums while on vacation. They were in the aviary on one of those visits looking at birds. My friend saw a crow asked the zookeeper a question. "What's the difference between a raven and a crow?" The zookeeper looked at her, smiled and started to answer. "Have you ever heard of a pinion feather?" he said. "Pinions are the the feathers at the tip of a bird's wing that allows it to fly. They are also the ones that people will trim to prevent birds from flying away. Crows have 5 pinion feathers while ravens have 6. So, if you think about it, it's really just a matter of a pinion."
To this day, my friend and her family don't know the real answer to "What's the difference between a crow and a raven?" They are wonderful and intelligent people, but they subscribe to a particular brand of ignorance where a good pun is better than actual knowledge. They call it punorance.
...they hang out in crowbars.
It was in Poe taste.
I'd say it's got it's crows and caws.
Broth, the raven, nevermore
Edgar Allan Poe wrote on both.
It was an amBUSH.
Every where I go I see a group of ravens.
Call me crazy, but I think it’s a conspiracy.
So I guess the difference is a matter of a pinion.
The big ones at the end of the wing. These feathers are called pinion feathers. A crow has sixteen.
So, the difference between a crow and a raven is only a matter of a pinion.
These are the big ones at the end of the wing, also called pinion feathers. A crow only has 16 of them. So the difference between a crow and a raven is only a matter of a pinion.
I continued, "Therefore, it's just a matter of a pinion."
In other words, a conspiracy of ravens premeditated a murder of crows.
