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[–] Klear@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Here'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?

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is that a picture of a Stork?

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] ada@friend.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Specifically, it's a Little Blue Heron

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 1 week ago

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

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

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] ada@friend.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wait until you encounter the folk that call them egrets!

proudly flashes "no egrets" neck tattoo

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] ada@friend.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week 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

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Kyle, is that you? Kyle Crane?

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

What did crane say?