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• Klear@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ere’s the thing. You said a “heron is a crane.”

  Is it in the same class? Yes. No one’s arguing that.

  As someone who is a scientist who studies cranes, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls herons cranes. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.

  If you’re saying “crane class” you’re referring to the taxonomic grouping of Aves, which includes things from nutcrackers to eagles to jackdaws.

  So your reasoning for calling a heron a crane is because random people “call the tall ones crows?” Let’s get emus and ostriches in there, then, too.

  Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how taxonomy works. They’re both. A heron is a heron and a member of the aves class. But that’s not what you said. You said a heron is a crane, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the aves class cranes, which means you’d call swans, penguins, and other birds cranes, too. Which you said you don’t.

  It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?

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  • Cavemanfreak@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Rip Unidan

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• ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is that a picture of a Stork?

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s a Blue Heron, we have plenty in Maine. Love those guys, sometimes they hang out on the dock but it’s very hard to tell they’re there because I’ve never heard one make a sound.

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  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No, that’s a heron I believe, here’s a stork

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    • ada@friend.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Specifically, it's a Little Blue Heron

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    • xylol@leminal.space ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Da oben fliegt ein Reiher!
  Von unten sieht man seine…

  Ach ne, das ist ein Kranich!
  Der hat ja sowas gar nich.

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• Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s clearly not a crane; more like a tractor really

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• ada@friend.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wait until you encounter the folk that call them egrets!

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    proudly flashes “no egrets” neck tattoo

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  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Egrets are herons

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    • ada@friend.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      @A_Union_of_Kobolds I mean, it depends

      The Great Egret is from the genus Ardea, which is a genus of herons...

      But, the White Faced Heron is from the genus Egretta, which are egrets...

      Egrets resist the boxes we want to put them in :P

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    • ada@friend.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, I'm aware :)

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Kyle, is that you? Kyle Crane?

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• FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What did crane say?

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