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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7356798" data-attributes="member: 6704184">So, you think that it somehow isn’t common usage to use crow to refer to specific types of corvids, as opposed to magpies, Ravens, and other corvids that aren’t as similar to eachother as the crow species that have crow names, really? You seriously think that is uncommon? Because if you do, you’re wrong.edit: to clarify, it seems that you believe that “crow=any corvid” is the only common usage of the term. That is the only way you could rationally be understood to not be pedantic, here. If both are common, you are being pedantic by “correcting” one for the other. And both are common. These things are sometimes regional, but even just on the internet it’s quite easy to see articles and discussions where “crow” and “raven” are used non-interchangeably, often to discuss the differences between ravens, and the various crow named corvids, who tend to have more in common with eachother than with ravens. Maybe you’ve somehow never encountered that extremely common usage, but that doesn’t change that it is very common, and for quite obvious reasons.</blockquote>