{"id":1838,"date":"2009-03-19T19:32:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T19:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/2009\/03\/rook-vs-crow\/"},"modified":"2009-03-19T19:32:10","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T19:32:10","slug":"rook-vs-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1838","title":{"rendered":"Rook vs Crow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve always struggled to tell the difference between Rook, Crow and Raven, though I&#39;ve had Jackdaws sorted for years (notably smaller &#8211; black cap above more slightly silvery head and neck). To remedy this situation I&#39;ve really been trying to get to grips with the differences and positively identify large black birds over recent months. Here&#39;s what I&#39;m fairly sure is a rook, on a feeder at the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e015888340112797c1fbb28a4\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rook 6315\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e5550e015888340112797c1fbb28a4 \" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e015888340112797c1fbb28a4-400wi\" style=\"width: 400px; \" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>This is fairly classicly an adult rook by virtue of the grey area around the base of the bill, which itself is long and pointy compared to that of a carrion crow. That said, the head shape seems more typically crow-like to me (less of a crown) and in this example there&#39;s no evidence of the &#39;baggy trousers&#39; that usually distinguishes a rook. As a result I&#39;m left still fairly puzzled, but I&#39;m going with my call that this is a rook. Furthermore, there were lots of them around all together and apparently this is a sign of rookedness.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve always struggled to tell the difference between Rook, Crow and Raven, though I&#39;ve had Jackdaws sorted for years (notably smaller &#8211; black cap above more slightly silvery head and neck). To remedy this situation I&#39;ve really been trying to get to grips with the differences and positively identify large black birds over recent months. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photography","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}