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The rook was given its binomial name by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in his Systema Naturae. [2] The binomial is from Latin; Corvus means "raven", and frugilegus means for "fruit-gathering". It is derived from frux (oblique frug-), meaning "fruit", and legere, meaning "to pick". [3]
The name is derived from the Latin corvus meaning "raven". [10] The type species is the common raven ( Corvus corax ); [ 11 ] others named by Linnaeus in the same work include the carrion crow ( C. corone ), hooded crow ( C. cornix ), rook ( C. frugilegus ), and two species which have since been moved to other genera, the western jackdaw (now ...
Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, magpies, jackdaws, jays, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers. [1] [2] [3] In colloquial English, they are known as the crow family or corvids.
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct.
The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
The rook has a high-pitched kaaa, but the crow's guttural, slightly vibrant, deeper croaked kraa is distinct from any note of the rook. [ 10 ] The carrion crow is noisy, perching on a vantage point such as a building or the top of a tree and calling three or four times in quick succession, with a slight pause between each series of croaks.
It is derived from a nickname is the Italian, Portuguese, and Galician, literally meaning "raven" or "rook", from Latin corvus. In Spanish the word has the meaning "crooked bend" (Latin: curvus) [1] The Spanish variant of "raven" is "Cuervo". Notable people with the surname include: Alberto Corvo (born 1963), Italian middle-distance runner