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Corvus corax

(southwestern raven)

Overview

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Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in Dutch:

Raaf

Common Names in English:

American, american raven, Common Raven, holarctic raven, Mexican raven, northern raven, Ravan, Raven, southwestern raven

Common Names in French:

grand corbeau

Common Names in German:

Kolkrabe

Common Names in Hebrew:

עורב שחור

Common Names in Italian:

Corvo imperiale

Common Names in Japanese:

ワタリガラス

Common Names in Russian:

Voron, Ворон, Ворон обыкновенный

Common Names in Spanish:

Cuervo, Cuervo Com, Cuervo común, cuervo común

Common Names in Swedish:

Korp

Description

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Physical Description

Adult : Bill: black Length : long Legs : Foot Color: black Leg Color: black Tail: Length: long Shape : wedge-shaped, with long central feathers.

Size/Age/Growth

About 21 to 26 inches long, with a wingspan of 46 to 56 inches. Adults weigh about 43.2 ounces .

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine forests, tropical deciduous forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands, northern temperate grasslands, arid montane scrubs, arid lowland scrubs • Maximum Elevation: 4,200 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Upper subtropical: higher slopes, 500-1,600 m.; subtropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,467 meters (0 to 14,656 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

Biology

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Diet

Primarily: Carrion . Lesser Quantities of: Reptiles or Amphibians Eggs Insects Plant Matter

Reproduction

Migration

Nonmigratory

Taxonomy

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Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 24-Jun-1996

Similar Species

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American Crow, Chihuahuan Raven

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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Notes

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 12, 2007:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Mean = 341.970 meters (1,121.949 feet), Standard Deviation = 778.880 based on 10,453 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 2012-07-18