Crows and Thrushes, Japan, March/April (1 Viewer)

[Sasquatch Fingers]

1. The shallower slope of the forehead here makes me think Carrion Crow, though it seems from reading that they are less common in the cities than the Large-Billed. Ueno Park, Tokyo.
2. Again here, I'm going off the forehead slope because it's the most noticeable trait to my eye. Based on that, I'm saying LBC for this (the Crow, not the Long Beach Crew, this isn't from a Snoop Dogg video). Not sure where this one was from, besides urban. It could have been in Kyoto, but I'm leaning towards near Shimbashi Station in the southern part of Tokyo.
3-4. I think these two are the same kind of Thrush, likely Pale.
5. I'm more confident in this being a Dusky Thrush.

 

[Welsh Peregrine]

Both the crows look like Large-billed based on the beak - the forehead looks lower in the first thanks to the angle that the head is being held at. Dusky or Dusky-type hybrid for the last thrush; insufficient experience and lack of handy book for the other two.

 

[andyb39]

Pale Thrush looks right.

The last one looks like a fairly straightforward Dusky Thrush.

 

[thirudevaram]

The 2nd Corvid fits Carrion. The upper mandible is slender compared to the arched and Chunky shape of Large-billed.

 

[Welsh Peregrine]

On a closer look - yes, I'll change my vote to Carrion on the second shot.

 

[Sasquatch Fingers]

Curious. I have a few other shots of the tool-maker up there and the forehead is similarly low at all angles. Maybe I'll dig them out later. Thanks, folks.