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Photo by sar NOP at Manly, NSW, Australia.

Corvus coronoides

[edit] Identification

Length 50 cm. All-black plumage, beak and legs with a white iris. Australian Raven shows strongly elongated feathers at the throat which are especially obvious when it is calling.

[edit] Distribution

Australia: in eastern and central Australia found almost everywhere except Cape York Peninsula and Tasmania, but west of central South Australia only found in a coastal strip and in less dry corner of Western Australia called the South-West.

[edit] Taxonomy

Polytypic. Consists of two subspecies¹:

• C. c. coronoides - most of the range
• C. c. perplexus - the South West

[edit] Habitat

All habitats.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes carrion, insects, seeds, fruit, small reptiles, nestlings and eggs.

They nest in tall trees; the nest is a bowl or platform of sticks lined with grasses, barks, and feathers. 3-6 pale green or bluish-green splotched with darker olive, brown and blackish markings eggs are laid. The female incubates them for about 20 days. The young fledged after 45 days.

[edit] References

1. Clements, James F. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2007. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019
2. Pizzey, G. & Knight, F. 1997. Birds of Australia (Collins Field Guide). HarperCollins Publishers, London. ISBN 0-00-220132-1

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