Corvus leucognaphalus

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Overview

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands, tropical lowland evergreen forest, mangrove forests • Maximum Elevation: 1,500 meters • Zoogeographic Region: Hispaniola • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: ? • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Ecology: It inhabits lowland and montane wooded regions, where it probably favours old, mature forest2. It is intolerant of degraded habitats or areas opened up by forest clearance2. The diet is mainly fruit and seeds, but also vertebrates and large insects3. It nests high in large trees or palms between the end of February and May2,4.

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List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
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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 birds of the West Indies: which do not occur elsewhere in North America north of Mexico / by C. J. Maynard. Newtonville [Mass.]: Maynard, 1898. url p. 19.
• A history of North American birds / by S. F. Baird, T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway. Boston: Little, Brown, 1905. url p. 234.
• A history of the birds of Europe: including all the species inhabiting the western palaearctic region / London: Published by the Author, 1871-1881. url p. 535.
• Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url p. 146, p. 214.
• Birds / by Spencer Fullerton Baird; with the co-operation of John Cassin and George N. Lawrence. Washington, D.C., 1858. url p. 566.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , p. 278, p. 279, p. 325.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 416, p. 416, p. 440.
• Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [Washington, D.C.?]: Supt. of Docs., G.P.O., 1913-1923. url p. 136, p. 6.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. 13 1934 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1934. url p. 7.
• Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 510.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 270.
• Contribution to the ornithology of San Domingo, by George K. Cherrie. .. 1 1896 Chicago, 1896. url p. 17, p. 5.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 168, p. 327.
• Insects of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. New York, The Academy. url p. 410, p. 479, p. 482, p. 587.
• Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Washington [etc., Washington Academy of Sciences] url p. 322.
• List of the described birds of Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies: not in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution / Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC: The Institution, 1863? url p. 3.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url , p. 361, p. 446.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 81.
• Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Boston [etc.]Boston Society of Natural History. url p. 94.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 48, p. 521, p. 522, p. 602.
• Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the direction of the secretary of war, in 1853-[6]. .. Washington, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer [etc.]1855-60. url p. 566.
• Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement. Leyden, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. url p. 33.
• The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 11, p. 227.
• The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 255.
• The Marine Mammal Commission compendium of selected treaties, international agreements, and other relevant documents on marine resources, wildlife, and the environment / compiled by Richard L. Wallace. Washington, D.C.: The Commission; 1994 url p. 512.
• The birds of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other island Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1901- url , , , .
• The birds of the West Indies. Including all speciesknown to occur in the Bahama Islands, the Greater Antilles, the Caymans, and the Lesser Antilles, excepting the islands of Tobago and Trinidad. By Charles B. Cory. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1889. url p. 114.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2008. Corvus leucognaphalus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed April 30, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 04, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, and quot;Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds, and quot; in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 04, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 4021
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-179745
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14375937
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 179745
• IUCN ID: 202181
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Identifier: B08A
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 352

Footnotes

1. BirdLife International 2008. Corvus leucognaphalus. 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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