Pied Crow (Corvus albus)

Other Names (World)
Pied Crow, African Pied Crow, White-bellied Crow

Family
Corvidae (Crows And Jays)

Size
46 - 50 cm

First Described (Guide)
M�ller, 1776

Range (Guide)

Angola (B) (NB), Benin (B) (NB), Botswana (B) (NB), Burkina Faso (B) (NB), Burundi (B) (NB), Cameroon (B) (NB), Central African Republic (B) (NB), Chad (B) (NB), Comoros (B) (NB), Congo (B) (NB), Congo [The Democratic Republic of the] (B) (NB), Cote dIvoire (B) (NB), Djibouti (B) (NB), Equatorial Guinea (B) (NB), Eritrea (B) (NB), Ethiopia (B) (NB), Gabon (B) (NB), Gambia (B) (NB), Ghana (B) (NB), Guinea (B) (NB), Guinea-bissau (B) (NB), Kenya (B) (NB), Lesotho (B) (NB), Liberia (B) (NB), Madagascar (B) (NB), Malawi (B) (NB), Mauritania (B) (NB), Mauritius (B) (NB), Mayotte (B) (NB), Mozambique (B) (NB), Namibia (B) (NB), Niger (B) (NB), Nigeria (B) (NB), Rwanda (B) (NB), Senegal (B) (NB), Seychelles (B) (NB), Sierra Leone (B) (NB), Somalia (B) (NB), South Africa (B) (NB), Sudan (B) (NB), Swaziland (B) (NB), Tanzania [United Republic of] (B) (NB), Togo (B) (NB), Uganda (B) (NB).

Vagrant to Yemen (NB).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2011).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Food
Invertebrates, small reptiles, small mammals, young birds and eggs, grain, peanuts, carrion, human food scraps.

Voice
A harsh 'ar-ar-ar-ar' or 'karh-karh-karh'.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (141)...)

Pied Crow (Corvus albus) [XC99554]
by Mike Nelson from Nyasoso, Cameroon (call)

Pied Crow (Corvus albus) [XC96053]
by Mike Nelson from Mazumbai Forest Reserve, Tanga, Tanzania (call)

Eggs (Guide)
3 - 6; pale green with brown spots of various shades. Incubation: 18 - 19 days; by female. Eggs are covered when female leaves nest.

Young
Fledge in about 45 days. Fed by both parents.

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Forms a superspecies with Somali Crow (Corvus edithae) and Brown-necked Raven (Corvus ruficollis).

Corvus albus (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Pied Crow (Corvus albus) and Somali Crow (Corvus edithae) following Fry et al. (2000).

References
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