That is a picture of a juvenile rook though, which is unfortunate that the article uses as its flagship picture for the article, because it is quite misleading as to how adult rooks actually looks. It is obviously not fully developed yet.
The other pictures in the article does a better job, and does indeed resembles OPs picture more.
![[OC] Rook.](https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/72be4be0-f287-4686-aa3b-4a3c3a2094d5.jpeg){kind=link}
Rooks are such dudes! That said, isn’t this a carrion crow? Or maybe a raven. I don’t see the cool, plague-doctor style beak rooks have
Are there different species referred to as “rook”?
searches
Apparently just one species.
To my layman’s eyes, the WP image of the rook’s beak indeed looks pretty different from the submitted one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook_(bird)
That is a picture of a juvenile rook though, which is unfortunate that the article uses as its flagship picture for the article, because it is quite misleading as to how adult rooks actually looks. It is obviously not fully developed yet.
The other pictures in the article does a better job, and does indeed resembles OPs picture more.