![]() ![]() ![]() Craig Brelsfordĭaniel Bengtsson served as chief ornithological consultant for Craig Brelsford’s Photographic Field Guide to the Birds of China, from which this species description is drawn. Angry, grating “caw-caw-caw-caw” easily recognizable, even by non-birders. Large-billed crow has an even thicker, dagger-like bill with an even more pronounced arch to its culmen and a more distinctly peaked forehead. Juvenile distinguished from juvenile rook by smoother slope to crown and by thicker, blunter bill with more decurved culmen. Juvenile has looser, sootier (almost brown) plumage. Carrion Crown is the eighth campaign to grace the pages of Pathfinder Adventure Path and is scheduled to run from February through July 2011. Plumage, feet, eye, and stout bill black, the plumage on the upperparts usually showing a metallic blue gloss, and the base of the upper mandible covered with bristly feathers. ![]() Gathers in large roosts, especially in winter, often foraging with large-billed crows. Eats wide array of fruits and cereals as well as animal items, both invertebrate and vertebrate (including nestlings and birds’ eggs). A supremely adaptable, intelligent, omnivorous scavenger, the carrion crow is found in the largest urban areas, around stands of trees outside villages and near agricultural land, and in open woodland. In winter, some birds migrate south to southern and southeastern China. The eastern subspecies, orientalis, has a substantial presence in China, breeding in the Tianshan in Xinjiang and thence east across northern China, with the southern limit of its breeding range crossing northern Qinghai and dipping south to northern Sichuan and northeastward to Hebei. The bird most people have in mind when they think about crows, the carrion crow has two disjunct populations on the western and eastern ends of Eurasia. ![]()
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