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The Sunda crow (Corvus enca), formerly known as the slender-billed crow, is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae, in the genus Corvus. It is found from Malaysia to Borneo. The violet crow has been shown to be distinct genetically and separated as Corvus violaceus. [3]
They are as follows: (a) The Philippines versions of the slender-billed crow, Corvus enca, are defined as two new species, small crow, Corvus samarensis, found in the main Philippines islands, and Palawan crow, Corvus pusillus, found on Palawan.
The Sulawesi crow (Corvus celebensis) is a passerine bird in the crow family Corvidae that is endemic to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. It was formerly considered as conspecific with the Sunda crow with the combined taxa known as the slender-billed crow.
Corvus enca (Horsfield, 1821) – Sunda crow, formerly slender-billed crow (Malaysia, the Philippines, Borneo, Indonesia) Corvus celebensis Stresemann, 1936 – Sulawesi crow (Sulawesi and Sula Islands) Corvus samarensis Steere, 1890 – Samar crow, formerly small crow (Samar and Mindanao, Philippines)
They considered the specimen to be a subspecies of the Slender-billed crow (now Sunda crow) and coined the trinomial name Corvus enca sierramadrensis. [2] It was then formerly treated as a subspecies of the Samar crow ( Corvus samarensis ) but is now separated as a distinct species based on vocal and morphological differences.
The slender-billed curlew – a migratory shorebird that bred in western Siberia and migrated to the Mediterranean in winter – could be the first known global bird extinction from mainland ...
The Palawan crow (Corvus pusillus) is a Passerine bird of the family Corvidae, in the genus Corvus.It was previously considered a subspecies of the slender-billed crow, but phylogenetic evidence indicates that both are distinct species, and it has thus been split by the International Ornithologists' Union.
The large-billed crow (Corvus macrorhynchos), formerly referred to widely as the jungle crow, is a widespread Asian species of crow.It is very adaptable and is able to survive on a wide range of food sources, making it capable of colonizing new areas, due to which it is often considered a nuisance, especially on islands.