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  2. Corvus - Wikipedia

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    Hooded crow (Corvus cornix) in flight Jungle crow (Corvus macrorhynchos) scavenging on a dead shark at a beach in Kumamoto, Japan. Medium-large species are ascribed to the genus, ranging from 34 cm (13 in) of some small Mexican species to 60–70 cm (24–28 in) of the large common raven and thick-billed raven, which together with the lyrebird represent the larger passerines.

  3. Crow - Wikipedia

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    A carrion crow scavenging on a beach in Dorset, England. A crow (pronounced / ˈ k r oʊ /) is a bird of the genus Corvus, or more broadly, a synonym for all of Corvus.The word "crow" is used as part of the common name of many species.

  4. Hooded crow - Wikipedia

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    The hooded crow (Corvus cornix), also called the scald-crow or hoodie, [1] is a Eurasian bird species in the genus Corvus. Widely distributed, it is found across Northern, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, as well as parts of the Middle East. It is an ashy grey bird with black head, throat, wings, tail, and thigh feathers, as well as a black ...

  5. American crow - Wikipedia

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    The American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) is a large passerine bird species of the family Corvidae. It is a common bird found throughout much of North America . American crows are the New World counterpart to the carrion crow and the hooded crow of Eurasia ; they all occupy the same ecological niche .

  6. Corvus (constellation) - Wikipedia

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    Corvus is a small constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere. Its name means " crow " in Latin . One of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy , it depicts a raven, a bird associated with stories about the god Apollo , perched on the back of Hydra the water snake.

  7. Carrion crow - Wikipedia

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    The carrion crow was one of the many species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae, and it still bears its original name of Corvus corone. [2] The binomial name is derived from the Latin corvus, "raven", [3] and Greek κορώνη korōnē, "crow". [4]

  8. Common raven - Wikipedia

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    The common raven or northern raven (Corvus corax) is a large all-black passerine bird. It is the most widely distributed of all corvids , found across the Northern Hemisphere . There are 11 accepted subspecies with little variation in appearance, although recent research has demonstrated significant genetic differences among populations from ...

  9. List of Corvus species - Wikipedia

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    Corvus celebensis Stresemann, 1936 – Sulawesi crow (Sulawesi and Sula Islands) Corvus samarensis Steere, 1890 – Samar crow, formerly small crow (Samar and Mindanao, Philippines) Corvus sierramadrensis Rand & Rabor, 1961 – Sierra Madre crow (Luzon, Philippines) Corvus pusillus Tweeddale, 1878 – Palawan crow (Palawan, Philippines) [2]