Carrion crow

Corvus corone · Corvidae

The carrion crow is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae, native to western Europe and the eastern Palearctic. Along with the hooded crow, the carrion crow occupies a similar ecological niche in Eurasia to the American crow in North America. The two species look very similar to one another, but can be differentiated by size, as the carrion crow is larger and of a stockier build compared to the American crow.

Where the Carrion crow lives

Recorded in United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, Denmark and Japan (Europe and Asia).

Most records fall in Baden-Württemberg, Hessen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Bayern, Niedersachsen and Gelderland.

See the Carrion crow’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 5,833,145 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.