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Photo by sar NOP at Manly, New South Wales, Australia, December 2006

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.

Juveniles: have dark eyes.

[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.

Photo by fthsm
Sydney, Australia, July 2008

[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

[edit] Diet

They are omnivorous, feeding on items ranging from seeds and fruit to carrion and reptiles.

[edit] Breeding

They nest at the top of tall trees; the nest is a bowl or platform of sticks lined with grasses, barks, and feathers. Three to six greenish eggs with olive, brown and blackish markings eggs are laid. The female incubates them for about 20 days. The young fledge after 45 days.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Pizzey, G. & Knight, F. 1997. Birds of Australia (Collins Field Guide). HarperCollins Publishers, London. ISBN 0-00-220132-1
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

[edit] External Links

• Arthur Grosset's Birds