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How can you tell the difference between a rook and a crow (and even a raven)? I understand that rooks congregate at night in the rookery, but what visual differences are there?
How can you tell the difference between a rook and a crow (and even a raven)? I understand that rooks congregate at night in the rookery, but what visual differences are there?
Great shots as usual!
Ian
Ian...the Rook's beak is whitish while the Crow's is black. The Jackdaw, which is also a member of the same family, is smaller and has a whitish ring around the eyes.
How can you tell the difference between a rook and a crow (and even a raven)? I understand that rooks congregate at night in the rookery, but what visual differences are there?
Ian
A Rook has a white beak, a Crow's is black - rook and crow are approximately the same size.
Raven's are huge - all black, including beak and it's near enough twice the size of a Carrion Crow iirc.
Then there's also the Jackdaw - all black but with a sort of white eye. Pale iris to the eye. The Jackdaw is smaller than the Crow too.
We get Crows in the garden and also stripping the Oak branches for their nests, which are in a few Oak trees further along the lane. I sometimes see Rooks down at the lake where my 'pet Seagull' (Gilbert) lives. Dunno f there are any Jackdaws nearby - we never get them in or around the garden.
I have a picci in my gallery of one of the crows stripping the bark branches from the Oak tree. First the Crow - handheld shot with Sigma 170-500mm
..... and a rather poor picci of a Rook waiting on the fencepost for a few titbits one time when we were down at Gilbert's lake. Also handheld and shot from a cycle path but I forgot which lens. Probably the Tamron at 300mm.
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