Corvus crassirostris

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

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial [1].

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.7     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.7     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude   
  
•     6     Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs , mountain peaks)   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     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 dictionary of birds, London, A. and C. Black, 1893-1896. url p. 768.
• A dictionary of birds, by Alfred Newton, assisted by Hans Gadow, with contributions from Richard Lydekker. .. Charles S. Roy. .. and Robert W. Shufeldt. .. London, A. and C. Black, 1893-1896. url p. 768, p. 768, p. 768.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 404.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 122 1960 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 394.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 25.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 282.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 426.
• Magazine of zoology and botany. Edinburgh; Dublin. url p. 277.
• Observations on the geology and zoology of Abyssinia, made during the progress of the British expedition to that country in 1867-68. London, Macmillan and co., 1870. url .
• On a collection of birds from North-Eastern Abyssinia and the Bogos Country / London: Zoological Society of London, 1870. url .
• Ornithological bibliography. [Washington: Geological Survey [etc.], 1878-1880. url p. 604.
• Reptiles and birds: a popular account of their various orders, with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting / from the French of Louis Figuier; with 307 illustrations. London: Cassell & Co., [between 1883 and 1900]. url p. 479.
• Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement. Leyden, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. url p. 2, p. 3.
• Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. [London]: Published for the Zoological Society of London by Academic Press url p. 256.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2009. Corvus crassirostris. 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.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 4041
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-559496
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13851237
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 559496
• IUCN ID: 202169
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 136303

Footnotes

1. BirdLife International 2009. Corvus crassirostris. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]

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