agnosticalchemist:

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youranimeprince:

Crow babies are important

Somehow it never occurred to me that crows start out as babies.

@exhausted-trashgoddex

those aren’t baby crows

these are baby crows

but if those are baby crows, what are those birds?

i poked around, and apparently they’re buff-banded rail chicks

crows, like other songbirds (yes, crows are songbirds), have what are calle atricial young- they hatch basically featherless and unable to walk and do much of anything but beg for food. rails, on the other hand, have precocial young- their chicks are fluffy from the get-go and can start walking almost immediately. ducklings are a well-known example of this

Note to self: if the baby doesn’t look like a bristly goblin, it’s not a corvid

@the-mighty-birdy