Corvus albicollis

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found in a lake at a mean distance from sea level of 266 meters (873 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.4     Grassland - Temperate   
  
•     4.7     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude   
  
•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.5     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)   
  
•     5.6     Wetlands (inland) - Seasonal/Intermittent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)   
  
•     6     Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs , mountain peaks)   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.2     Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
  
•     14.5     Artificial/Terrestrial - Urban Areas   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Corvus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 65 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. albicollis (White-Naped Raven) · C. albus (Pied Crow) · C. bennetti (Little Crow) · C. boreus (Relict Raven) · C. brachyrhynchos (Southern Crow) · C. brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos (American Crow) · C. brachyrhynchos paulus (American Crow) · C. capensis (Black Crow) · C. caurinus (North-Western Crow) · C. corax (Southwestern Raven) · C. corax clarionensis (Common Raven) · C. corax corax (Common Raven) · C. corax laurenci (Common Raven) · C. corax principalis (Common Raven) · C. corax sinuatus (Common Raven) · C. corone (Carrion Crow) · C. corone; cornix (Hooded Crow) · C. corone cornix (Hooded Crow) · C. coronoides (Australian Raven) · C. coronoides coronoides (Australian Raven) · C. crassirostris (Thick-Billed Raven) · C. cryptoleucus (White Nacked Ravan) · C. dauuricus (Daurian Jackdaw) · C. edithae (Somali Crow) · C. enca (Slender-Billed Crow) · C. florensis (Flores Crow) · C. frugilegus (Rook) · C. frugilegus frugilegus (Rook) · (Brown-Headed Crow) · C. hawaiiensis (Hawaiian Crow) · C. imparatus (Tamaulipas Crow) · C. jamaicensis (Jamaican Crow) · C. kubaryi (Guam Crow) · C. leucognaphalus (White-Necked Crow) · C. levaillantii (Jungle Crow) · C. macrorhynchos (Large-Billed Crow) · C. macrorhynchos macrorhynchos (Large-Billed Crow) · C. meeki (Bougainville Crow) · C. mellori (Little Raven) · C. minutus (Cuban Palm Crow) · C. monedula (Eurasian Jackdaw) · C. monedula monedula (Eurasian Crow) · C. monedula spermologus (Jackaw) · (New Caledonian Crow) · C. nasicus (Cuban Crow) · C. newtoni (Reunion Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. orru (Australian Crow) · C. orru orru (Australian Crow) · C. ossifragus (Fish Crow) · C. palmarum (Hispaniolan Palm Crow) · C. palmarum palmarum (Hispaniolan Palm Crow) · C. rhipidurus (Fan-Tailed Raven) · C. ruficollis (Brown-Necked Raven) · C. sinaloae (Sinaloan Crow) · C. splendens (Indian House Crow) · C. splendens splendens (Indian House Crow) · C. tasmanicus (Forest Raven) · C. tasmanicus tasmanicus (Forest Raven) · C. torquatus (Collared Crow) · C. tristis (Gray Crow) · C. tropicus (Hawaiian Crow) · C. typicus (Mauritius Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. unicolor (Banggai Crow) · C. validus (Long-Billed Crow) · C. woodfordi (Solomon Islands Crow)

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the collection of birds formed by the late Hugh Edwin Strickland. Cambridge, Univ. Press, 1882. url p. 285.
• A list of the genera of birds: with their synonyma and an indication of the typical species of each genus / by George Robert Gray. London: Printed and sold by R. and J.E. Taylor, 1841. url p. 51.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: The Museum, 1950-1977. url p. 148, p. 150, p. 179.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 79 1936 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 173, p. 208, p. 217.
• Catalogue of African birds in the collection of R.B. Sharpe. London: Published by the Author, 1871. url p. 57.
• Catalogue of a collection of birds from British East Africa, by Ned Dearborn. .. 1 1909 Chicago, 1909. url p. 190.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 24, p. 25.
• Catalogue of the genera and subgenera of birds contained in the British Museum. London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1855. url p. 64.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 281.
• Genera insectorum / publiés par P. Wytsman. Bruxelles, L. Desmet-Verteneuil [etc.]1902-1970. url p. 26.
• General zoology, or, Systematic natural history / London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1800-1826. url p. 69.
• Handbook of zoology / by J. van der Hoeven. Cambridge: University Press, 1856-1858. url p. 484.
• Handbook of zoology; by J. van der Hoeven. Tr. from the 2d Dutch ed. by the Rev. William Clark. Cambridge: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1856-58. url p. 484.
• IUCN Directory of Afrotropical Protected Areas IUCN, UNEP url p. 1016, p. 706, p. 954.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 365, p. 517, p. 633.
• Kloof and karroo: Sport, legend and natural history in Cape Colony, with a notice of the game birds, and of the present distribution of antelopes and larger game. By H.A. Bryden... London and New York: Longmans, Green and co., 1889. url p. 15.
• Magazine of natural history and journal of zoology, botany, mineralogy, geology and meteorology. London: printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1829-1837. url p. 100, p. 100.
• Memoirs and proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society. Manchester: The Society, 1888-1980. url p. 103.
• Notes on the birds of Damara Land and the adjacent countries of South-west Africa. Arranged and edited by John Henry Gurney, with some additional notes by the editor and an introductory chapter containing a sketch of the author's life, abridged from the original published in Sweden. London, J. van Voorst, 1872. url p. 153.
• Notes on the birds of Damara land and the adjacent countries of the south-west Africa. By the late Charles John Anderson. .. Arranged and edited by John Henry Gurney, with some additional notes by the editor, and and introductory chapter containing a sketch of the author's life, abridge London, J. van Voorst1872. url p. 153.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 171, p. 216, p. 216.
• Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 11.
• Supplement II to the General synopsis of birds. London: Printed for Leigh, Sotheby, & Son, York Street, Covent Garden, [1801 or 1802] url p. 107.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 389, p. 389, p. 394, p. 394.
• The Field naturalist: a review of animals, plants, minerals, the structure of the earth, and appearances of the sky / edited by James Rennie. London: Orr and Smith, 1835. url p. 333.
• The Journal of the South African Ornithologists' Union. Pretoria. url p. 235.
• The birds of South Africa / by Edgar Leopold Layard. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1875-1884. url p. 417.
• The birds of South Africa, by Arthur C. Stark. .. London: R. H. Porter, 1900-1906. url p. 10.
• Zoologist. London.1843-1916 url p. 10, p. 4475.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2009. Corvus albicollis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed April 30, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 30, 2007:

• BeBIF Provider, Royal Museum of Central Africa - Albertian Rift Birds
• Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB, Paleobiology Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 4040
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-559489
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14375937
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 559489
• IUCN ID: 202160
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 136296

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 467.030 based on 14,150 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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