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The pied crow (Corvus albus) is a widely distributed African bird species in the crow genus of the family Corvidae. 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) where their ranges meet in the Horn of Africa .
Clark's nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana), sometimes referred to as Clark's crow or woodpecker crow, is a passerine bird in the family Corvidae, native to the mountains of western North America. The nutcracker is an omnivore, but subsists mainly on pine nuts , burying seeds in the ground in the summer and then retrieving them in the winter by ...
The pied currawong is generally a black bird with white in the wing, undertail coverts, the base of the tail and most visibly, the tip of the tail. It has yellow eyes. It has yellow eyes. Adult birds are 44–50 cm (17–20 in) in length, with an average of around 48 cm (19 in); the wingspan varies from 56 to 77 cm (22 to 30 in), averaging ...
Corvus woodfordi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1887) – white-billed crow or Solomon Islands crow (southern Solomon Islands) Corvus meeki Rothschild, 1904 – Bougainville crow or Solomon Islands crow (Bougainville Island and Shortland Islands, Solomon Islands) [3] Corvus fuscicapillus Gray, GR, 1859 – brown-headed crow
The long-billed crow can be differentiated from other crows by its large size and glossy plumage, its long beak and its white iris. [3] The only other crow within its range is the Torresian crow ( Corvus orru ) which has a much smaller beak and inhabits more open areas rather than forests.
This glossy all-black crow has a heavy black bill but without an arching culmen (upper edge of the mandible) and has a fine tip. The feathers have a purple gloss throughout. The tail of the Indian jungle crow is rounded and the legs and feet are stout. The base of the nape feathers is dusky. [1]
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 also has proportionately longer legs, wings, and tail, and has a much longer, slimmer bill that seems to be adapted for probing into the ground for invertebrates .
It is about 52–55 cm in length—the same size or slightly larger than the carrion crow (C. corone), with proportionately slightly longer wings, tail and bill.A sleek and handsome bird, it has glossy black plumage except for the back of the neck, upper back (mantle), and a broad band around the lower breast that is white.