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Common Crow
Range:
Canada, United States
Habitat:
Woodlands, farmlands, orchards, suburban areas
Conservation Status:
Common
Scientific Name:
Corvus brachyrhynchos ...
Common Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
Common throughout Michigan, this large, 17 to 20 inch bird's entire body is blue black, tending to appear purplish black in sunlight.
COMMON CROW BLACKBIRD, Quiscalus versicolor, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 194;vol. v. p. 481.
QUISCALUS VERSICOLOR, Common Purple Boat-tail, Swains. and Rich. F. Bor. Amer., vol. ii. p. 485.
OTHER NAMES: Common crow
DESCRIPTION: At 17 to 21 inches, Corvus brachyrhynchos is the largest of the three subspecies of crow found in North America.
Other important predators of Townsend's ground squirrels include other hawks (Accipiter and Buteo spp.) and falcons (Falco spp.), common crows (Corvus corax), badgers (Taxidea taxus), coyotes (Canis latrans), long-tailed weasels (Mestrela frenata), ...
The Victoria crowned pigeon, Goura victoria, and the Common crowned pigeon, Goura cristata, are the peacocks of the pigeon family. They are the largest surviving pigeons.
Greater Coucal Centropus sinensis
Described by: Stephens (1815)
Alternate common name(s): Common Crow-pheasant, Crow-pheasant, Common Coucal, Large Coucal, Lark-heeled Cuckoo
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
There throaty 'caww' is familiar , although they can produce a musical warble . The fish Crow of the Atlantic's and Gulf coasts is smaller than the common crow .
Common ravens in North America tend to be found in wild areas, whereas their cousins, common crows tend to be found in areas more affected by human habitation.
It was very tame (unlike the few Common Crows resident on the island), allowing Christel and Norman Bell to approach within 3 m of it.
The fish crow of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts is smaller than the common crow. The carrion crow of Great Britain is a flesh-eating bird 18 to 20 in. (46-51 cm) long.
^ Dhindsa,Manjit Singh; Toor,HS (1981) Some observations on the nest of the Common Crow-Pheasant, Centropus sinensis (Stephens). J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 78(3):600-602
^ Baker, E. C. S. (1934).
 See also: Crow, Purple, Blackbird, Starling, Fly
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