May 19, 2021 at 10:48 AM Shares0 You wouldn’t point to a banditry of chickadees — yes, that’s what they’re called — hanging out with a flock of ostriches and just say “look, a bunch of birds.” It’s technically true, of course, but one is an adorable passerine songbird and the other is basically a full-on velociraptor that really let itself go over the last 70 million years or so. Forget about how the ornithological eggheads parse birds little boxes, this is a distinction that even Jane Q. Public needs to be able to make at a glance because one of the two can absolutely kill you.