Hooded Crow Corvus cornix [Linnaeus, 1758] |
|
| Jump to: Other Names | Trends & Distribution | Breeding & Survival | Biometrics | Books & Links |
|
|
||||
|
For details point at or click the |
Page updated:16-January-2013 |
|
Order:
Passeriformes
|
Family: Corvidae |
|
BTO Codes:
HC, HOOCR
|
EURING No: 15673 | |
|
Number in Britain:
160 thousand territories (Summer)
|
||
|
Conservation Status:
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
| Links to: Images Videos Sound | ||
Status in UK:
(A) Resident Breeder, Winter Visitor
|
||
|
Subspecies:
cornix recorded in Britain (of 3 subsp. in the world)
|
||
| . | ||
|
Length:
46 cm
|
Wingspan: 98 cm |
Weight:
M/F: 510 g
|
|
Scientific name from:
|
L.: corvus=the raven and L.: cornix=the crow |
|
World Distribution:
|
Scotland, n,c&se Europe, nw Asia |
|
Habitat:
|
Almost everywhere |
|
Diet:
|
Invertebrates and cereal grain, also eggs, carrion and scraps |
|
|
|
Population and Distribution |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
British Population Size:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Summer: 160 thousand territories in 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
First Record:
Recorded in Anglo-Saxon times
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Conservation Status:
GREEN
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Previous Assessments:
2002-2007
Not Assessed
1996-2001
Not Assessed
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Races of Concern: cornix GREEN | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Habitat Occupancy (in the Breeding Season):
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Most frequent in: Bog | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
European Population Size:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Summer:
Unavailable
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Population Assesment from Birds in Europe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution in Europe mapped by the EBCC Atlas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Listed on the Appendices/Schedules of:
WBD(II*)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||
|
|
||||
Breeding and Survival |
|||
|
Egg Size:
43 x 30 mm
|
Egg Weight: 19.8 g (of which 6 % is shell) | ||
|
Number of Nest Records:
12
|
|||
|
Clutch Size:
3 - 6 eggs
|
|||
|
Incubation:
18- 19 days
|
by the: Female |
Fledging:
28 - 30days
|
as:
Altricial, downy
|
|
First Clutches Laid:
Unavailable
|
|||
|
Number of Broods:
1
|
|||
| See trends in Breeding Productivity | |||
|
Number Ringed:
Annual Totals
|
|
|
Adult Survival:
No data
|
Juvenile Survival:
No data
|
|
Age at First Breeding:
2
years
|
Typical Lifespan:
No data
|
|
Maximum Recorded Age:
3 years 2 months 14 days (set in 2011)
|
|
| Read a summary of Ringing Recoveries | |
|
|
|
Biometrics |
||
|
Ring Size:
F
|
||
|
Wing Length
|
Adult: | Insufficient Data |
| Juvenile: | 305.4 ± 17.8 Range 277.0 - 332.0 mm, (N = 16) | |
| Male: | Insufficient Data | |
| Female: | Insufficient Data | |
|
Weight
|
Adult: | Insufficient Data |
| Juvenile: | Insufficient Data | |
| Male: | Insufficient Data | |
| Female: | Insufficient Data | |
| Seasonal: | Summer 547.9 ± 49.98 (N = 20) | |
|
|
||
Other Names |
|
|
Split from Corvus corone
|
|
| Gaelic: Starrag | Welsh: Bran Llywd |
| Danish: Gråkrage | Dutch: Bonte Kraai |
| Finnish: | French: Corneille mantelée |
| German: Nebelkrähe | Hungarian: |
| Icelandic: | Irish: Caróg Liath/Caróg Dhubh |
| Italian: Cornacchia grigia | Norwegian: Gråkrake |
| Polish: Wrona siwa | Portuguese: Gralha-cinzenta |
| Spanish: Corneja cenicienta | Swedish: Kråka |
|
|
|
For More Information... |
|
|
Books and Monographs:
|
|
| No books written recently | |
| See Also: | |
Find scientific papers on  Google Scholar
or  Scirus by clicking the icon
|
|
| Wikipedia entry | |
| BirdLife species page | |
| Recent sightings and information from BirdGuides | |
| Read State of the Nations Birds by Chris Mead | |
|
|
|