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A crow is a
bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweig ...
of the genus ''
Corvus
''Corvus'' is a widely distributed genus of medium-sized to large birds in the family Corvidae. It includes species commonly known as crows, ravens and rooks. The species commonly encountered in Europe are the carrion crow, the hooded crow ...
'', or more broadly a synonym for all of ''Corvus''. Crows are generally black in colour. The word "crow" is used as part of the common name of many species. The related term "
raven" is not pinned scientifically to any certain trait, but is rather a general grouping for larger ''Corvus spp.''
Species
* ''Corvus albus'' –
pied crow
The pied crow (''Corvus albus'') is a widely distributed African bird species in the crow genus.
Structurally, the pied crow is better thought of as a small crow-sized raven, especially as it can hybridise with the Somali crow (dwarf raven) whe ...
(Central African coasts to southern Africa)
* ''Corvus bennetti'' –
little crow
Little Crow III (Dakota: ''Thaóyate Dúta''; 1810 – July 3, 1863) was a Mdewakanton Dakota chief who led a faction of the Dakota in a five-week war against the United States in 1862.
In 1846, after surviving a violent leadership contest ...
(Australia)
* ''Corvus brachyrhynchos'' –
American crow
The American crow (''Corvus brachyrhynchos'') is a large passerine bird species of the family Corvidae. It is a common bird found throughout much of North America. American crows are the New World counterpart to the carrion crow of Europe an ...
(United States, southern Canada, northern Mexico)
* ''Corvus capensis'' –
Cape crow
The Cape crow or black crow (''Corvus capensis'') is slightly larger (48–50 cm in length) than the carrion crow and is completely black with a slight gloss of purple in its feathers. It has proportionately longer legs, wings and tail too an ...
or Cape rook (Eastern and southern Africa)
* ''Corvus cornix'' –
hooded crow
The hooded crow (''Corvus cornix''), also called the scald-crow or hoodie, is a Eurasian bird species in the genus ''Corvus''. Widely distributed, it is found across Northern, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, as well as parts of the Middle Eas ...
(Northern and Eastern Europe and Northern Africa and Middle East)
* ''Corvus corone'' –
carrion crow
The carrion crow (''Corvus corone'') is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae and the genus ''Corvus'' which is native to western Europe and the eastern Palearctic.
Taxonomy and systematics
The carrion crow was one of the many species or ...
(Europe and eastern Asia)
*''Corvus culminatus'' –
Indian jungle crow
The Indian jungle crow (''Corvus culminatus'') is a species of crow found across the Indian Subcontinent south of the Himalayas. It is very common and readily distinguished from the house crow (''Corvus splendens''), which has a grey neck. In the ...
(South Asia)
* ''Corvus edithae'' –
Somali crow or dwarf raven (eastern Africa)
* ''Corvus enca'' –
slender-billed crow (Malaysia, Borneo, Indonesia)
* ''Corvus florensis'' –
Flores crow (Flores Island)
* ''Corvus fuscicapillus'' –
brown-headed crow
The brown-headed crow (''Corvus fuscicapillus'') is a passerine bird of the genus ''Corvus'' in the family Corvidae. Endemic to Indonesia, it has a fragmented distribution in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropica ...
(New Guinea)
* ''Corvus hawaiiensis'' (formerly ''C. tropicus'') –
Hawaiian crow
The Hawaiian crow or alalā (''Corvus hawaiiensis'') is a species of bird in the crow family, Corvidae, that is currently extinct in the wild, though reintroduction programs are underway. It is about the size of the carrion crow at in length, bu ...
(Hawaii)
* ''Corvus imparatus'' –
Tamaulipas crow
The Tamaulipas crow (''Corvus imparatus'') is a crow found in northeastern Mexico and southern Texas.
Description
It is a relatively small and sleek looking crow, in length. It has very glossy dark, bluish plumage, which appears soft and silky ...
(Gulf of Mexico coast)
* ''Corvus insularis'' –
Bismarck crow
The Bismarck crow (''Corvus insularis'') is a species of crow found in the Bismarck Archipelago. It was considered by many authorities to be a subspecies of the Torresian crow
The Torresian crow (''Corvus orru''), also called the Australian cro ...
(Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea)
* ''Corvus jamaicensis'' –
Jamaican crow
The Jamaican crow (''Corvus jamaicensis'') is a comparatively small corvid (35–38 cm in length). It shares several key morphological features with two other West Indian species, the Cuban crow (''Corvus nasicus'') and the white-necked crow ...
(Jamaica)
* ''Corvus kubaryi'' –
Mariana crow
The Mariana crow (''Corvus kubaryi'') (Chamorro name: ''aga'') is a species of the crow family from the South Pacific. It is a glossy black bird about long and known only from the islands of Guam and Rota.
It is a rare bird which has steadily ...
or aga (Guam, Rota)
* ''Corvus leucognaphalus'' –
white-necked crow
The white-necked crow (''Corvus leucognaphalus'') is the largest of the four Caribbean corvids. It is endemic to the island of Hispaniola (split between Haiti and the Dominican Republic); it was formerly also extant on Puerto Rico, but has been ...
(Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico)
*''Corvus levaillantii'' –
eastern jungle crow
The eastern jungle crow (''Corvus levaillantii'') is a bird in the family Corvidae. It is found in China, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan, and Thailand
Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of ...
(India, Burma)
* ''Corvus macrorhynchos'' –
large-billed crow
The large-billed crow (''Corvus macrorhynchos''), formerly referred to widely as the jungle crow, is a widespread Asian species of crow. It is very adaptable and is able to survive on a wide range of food sources, making it capable of colonizing ...
* ''Corvus meeki'' –
Bougainville crow
The Bougainville crow (''Corvus meeki'') is a species of bird in the crow family, Corvidae.
It is found in on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea and the neighbouring Shortland Islands in the Solomon Islands. Within its range it is ...
or Solomon Islands crow (Papua New Guinea, Northern Solomon Islands)
* ''Corvus moneduloides'' –
New Caledonian crow
The New Caledonian crow (''Corvus moneduloides'') is a medium-sized member of the family Corvidae, native to New Caledonia. The bird is often referred to as the 'qua-qua' due to its distinctive call. It eats a wide range of food, including man ...
(New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands)
* ''Corvus nasicus'' –
Cuban crow
The Cuban crow (''Corvus nasicus'') is one of four species of crow that occur on islands in the Caribbean. It is closely related to the white-necked crow (''C. leucognaphalus'') and Jamaican crow (''C. jamaicensis''), with which it shares simil ...
(Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, Grand Caicos Island)
* ''Corvus orru'' –
Torresian crow
The Torresian crow (''Corvus orru''), also called the Australian crow or Papuan crow, is a passerine bird in the crow family native to the north and west of Australia and nearby islands in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. The species has a black ...
or Australian crow (Australia, New Guinea and nearby islands)
* ''Corvus ossifragus'' –
fish crow
The fish crow (''Corvus ossifragus'') is a species of crow associated with wetland habitats in the eastern and southeastern United States.
Taxonomy and etymology
The fish crow was given its binomial name by the Scottish ornithologist Alexa ...
(Southeastern U.S. coast)
* ''Corvus palmarum'' –
palm crow
The palm crow (''Corvus palmarum'') is a relatively small corvid that occurs on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola ( Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and Cuba, where it was formerly very frequent, but is now reduced in population.
Taxonomy
Th ...
(Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic)
* ''Corvus sinaloae'' –
Sinaloa crow
The Sinaloa crow (''Corvus sinaloae'') is a crow native to western Mexico. Description
Visually, it is nearly identical to and the same length (34–38 cm) as the Tamaulipas crow (''Corvus imparatus''). It has the same purple-glossed, silky ...
(Pacific coast from Sonora to Colima)
* ''Corvus splendens'' –
house crow
The house crow (''Corvus splendens''), also known as the Indian, greynecked, Ceylon or Colombo crow, is a common bird of the crow family that is of Asian origin but now found in many parts of the world, where they arrived assisted by shipping. ...
or Indian house crow (South Asia, Middle East, east Africa)
* ''Corvus torquatus'' –
collared crow
The collared crow (''Corvus torquatus''), also known as the ring-necked crow or white-collared crow, is a member of the family Corvidae native to China and north of Vietnam.
Description
It is about 52–55 cm in length—the same size or sl ...
(Eastern China, south into Vietnam)
* ''Corvus tristis'' –
grey crow
The gray crow (''Corvus tristis''), formerly known as the bare-faced crow, is about the same size (42–45 cm in length) as the Eurasian carrion crow (''Corvus corone'') but has somewhat different proportions and quite atypical feather pig ...
or Bare-faced crow (New Guinea and neighboring islands)
* ''Corvus typicus'' –
piping crow or Celebes pied crow (Sulawesi, Muna, Butung)
* ''Corvus unicolor'' –
Banggai crow (Banggai Island)
* ''Corvus validus'' –
long-billed crow
The long-billed crow (''Corvus validus'') is a crow that is endemic to the Northern Maluku Islands. This crow is large with glossy plumage, a large bill and white irises. It is classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as ...
(Northern Moluccas)
* ''Corvus violaceus'' –
violet crow (Seram) – recent split from
slender-billed crow
* ''Corvus woodfordi'' –
white-billed crow or Solomon Islands crow (Solomon Islands)
See also
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Jackdaw
Jackdaws are two species of bird in the genus ''Coloeus'' closely related to, but generally smaller than, the crows and ravens (''Corvus''). ''Coloeus'' is sometimes treated as a subgenus of ''Corvus'', including by the IUCN.Madge & Burn (1994) ...
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Raven
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Rook
Rook (''Corvus frugilegus'') is a bird of the corvid family. Rook or rooks may also refer to:
Games
*Rook (chess), a piece in chess
*Rook (card game), a trick-taking card game
Military
* Sukhoi Su-25 or Rook, a close air support aircraft
* USS ...
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