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Torresian Crow photographed at sports field in Brisbane
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This crow is easting a Cane Toad. Many birds and animals that eat Cane Toads are poisoned by the toad's venom, but the crow has figured out how to feed on Cane Toads and survive. It swings the toad around by the back leg until it overturns it, then feeds on the soft underside. This keeps it way from the poison glands on the toad's back. This photograph was taken in the Japanese Garden in Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane
Image by ozwildlife - Some rights reserved.
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TORRESIAN CROW FACTS |
Description
The Torresian Crow is a large crow found in forests and woodlands across northern Australia. It is all black with a white eye.
Size
50cm
Habitat
open forests, woodlands, scrublands, along watercourses, farms and city suburbs with tall trees.
Food
seeds, fruit, insects and other invertebrates, eggs, garbage and carrion.
Breeding
nest is a bowl of sticks lined with grass built high in a tree. Lays 3 - 5 eggs.
Range
across northern Australia and in Western 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: | orru | | Common Name: | Torresian Crow |
Relatives in same Genus
Little Crow (C. bennetti)
Australian Raven (C. coronoides)
Little Raven (C. mellori)
House Crow (C. splendens)
Forest Raven (C. tasmanicus)
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