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The New Caledonian crow is a moderate-sized crow (40 centimetres (16 in) in length), similar in size to the house crow, but less slender-looking.The bird has an all-black appearance with a rich gloss to its feathers of purple, dark blue and some green in good light.
The family Corvidae includes crows, ravens, jays, choughs, magpies, treepies, nutcrackers and ground jays. Corvids are above average in size among the Passeriformes, and some of the larger species show high levels of intelligence. New Caledonian crow, Corvus moneduloides (E)
New Caledonian myzomela; New Caledonian friarbird - found on Grande Terre, Lifou and Maré; Crow honeyeater; Barred honeyeater; Red-throated parrotfinch; Striated starling - found on Grande Terre, Ouvéa, Lifou and Maré; New Caledonian crow - native only on Grande Terre, but introduced on Maré; The following restricted-range species are also ...
Corvus splendens Vieillot, 1817 – house crow or Indian house crow (Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Middle East, eastern Africa) Corvus moneduloides Lesson, RP, 1831 – New Caledonian crow (New Caledonia) Corvus typicus (Bonaparte, 1853) – piping crow or Celebes pied crow (Sulawesi and Muna, Indonesia)
A New Caledonian crow uses a tool to retrieve the correct tool to obtain food. There are also specific examples of corvid cleverness. One carrion crow was documented cracking nuts by placing them on a crosswalk, letting the passing cars crack the shell, waiting for the light to turn red, and then safely retrieving the contents. [59]
One species, the New Caledonian crow, has also been intensively studied recently because of its ability to manufacture and use tools in the day-to-day search for food. On 5 October 2007, researchers from the University of Oxford presented data acquired by mounting tiny video cameras on the tails of New Caledonian crows. They pluck, smooth, and ...
One of these endemic bird species is the New Caledonian crow, a bird noted for its tool-making abilities, which rival those of primates. [95] These crows are renowned for their extraordinary intelligence and ability to fashion tools to solve problems, and make the most complex tools of any animal yet studied apart from humans. [96]
New Caledonian crows have been observed in the wild using sticks with their beaks to extract insects from logs. While young birds in the wild normally learn this technique from elders, a laboratory crow named Betty improvised a hooked tool from a wire with no prior experience, the only known species other than humans to do so.