I’ve lost track of the number of times that this picture of a baby rail has been mislabeled as a “baby crow”:

This is a baby crow:

And here’s a much younger baby crow:

At no point do crows have to suffer the indignity of being overly fluffy fuzzballs on stilts. Instead they start out as rather prehistoric-looking beasties to gawky teenagers who find solace in their baby bat goth status, until they eventually mature into this fine bird:

This concludes our brief lesson in corvid physical development.