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Corvus bennetti – Little crow (Australia) Corvus brachyrhynchos – American crow (United States, southern Canada, northern Mexico) Corvus capensis – Cape crow or Cape rook (Eastern and southern Africa) Corvus cornix – Hooded crow (Northern and Eastern Europe and Northern Africa and Middle East) Corvus corone – Carrion crow (Europe and ...
Hooded crow (Corvus cornix) in flight Jungle crow (Corvus macrorhynchos) scavenging on a dead shark at a beach in Kumamoto, Japan. Medium-large species are ascribed to the genus, ranging from 34 cm (13 in) of some small Mexican species to 60–70 cm (24–28 in) of the large common raven and thick-billed raven, which together with the lyrebird represent the larger passerines.
The earliest corvid fossils date to mid-Miocene Europe, [16] about 17 million years ago; Miocorvus and Miopica may be ancestral to crows and some of the magpie lineage, respectively, or similar to the living forms, due to convergent evolution. The known prehistoric corvid genera appear to be mainly of the New World and Old World jay and ...
Early/Middle Pleistocene of Europe; possibly a subspecies of C. corone/cornix) † Corvus antecorax – (fossil: Late Pliocene – Late Pleistocene of Europe; may be C. janossyi, possibly a subspecies of C. corax) † Corvus bragai – (fossil: Pliocene/Pleistocene transition of South Africa) [4]
Since Australia was settled by Europeans, all species of crows and ravens have been colloquially known as crows by the general population and are difficult to distinguish. [3] In his 1865 Handbook to the Birds of Australia John Gould noted a single species of corvid in Australia, Corvus australis , which he called the white-eyed crow.
The Torresian crow is a large corvid, about the same size (48–53 cm in length) [9] as the Eurasian carrion crow but with a more robust bill and slightly longer legs. The plumage of the Torresian crow is glossy black on the back and dull black on the breast with inconspicuous throat hackles.
The little raven (Corvus mellori) is a species of the family Corvidae that is native to southeastern Australia.An adult individual is about 48–50 cm (19–19.5 in) in length, with completely black plumage, beak, and legs; as with all Australian species of Corvus, the black feathers have a grey base, and the iris of the adult bird is white (typical also of some related species from islands to ...
The Australian raven (Corvus coronoides) is a passerine corvid bird native to Australia.Measuring 46–53 centimetres (18–21 in) in length, it has an all-black plumage, beak and mouth, as well as strong, greyish-black legs and feet.