
A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.Īlso, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. No one's arguing that.Īs someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows.
