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HOUSE CROW FACTS |
Description
The House Crow is an Asian crow that is now found in many parts of the world, where they were introduced accidently on ships. It is not established anywhere on Australia. The bird has a black body with grey neck and breast. Australian native crows are all black with no grey neck.
Size
43 cm
Habitat
Lives close to people in towns, cities, farmland
Food
omnivorous including insects, other invertebrates, eggs, seeds, fruit, carrion, food scavenged from garbage
Breeding
The nest is bowl of sticks in a tree. The female lays three to five eggs.
Range
vagrant to Australia. It is not established anywhere on Australia.
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Passeriformes | | Family: | Corvidae | | Genus: | Corvus | | Species: | splendens | | Common Name: | House Crow |
Relatives in same Genus
Little Crow (C. bennetti)
Australian Raven (C. coronoides)
Little Raven (C. mellori)
Torresian Crow (C. orru)
Forest Raven (C. tasmanicus)
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