White-billed Crow (Corvus woodfordi)

Other Names (World)
White-billed Crow, Solomon Crow, Solomons Crow, Guadalcanal Crow

Family
Corvidae (Crows And Jays)

Size
40 - 41 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Ogilvie-Grant, 1887)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. Also, subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. From sea-level - 1,000 m (occasionally 1,250 m).

Range (Guide)

Solomon Islands (B).

Islands of Choiseul, Santa Isabel and Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
A high-pitched cawing, 'aaw-aaw-aaw'.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (18)...)

White-billed Crow (Corvus woodfordi) [XC283798]
by Frank Lambert from Chupukama Ridge Guadalcanal 1320m, Solomon Islands (call)

White-billed Crow (Corvus woodfordi) [XC283799]
by Frank Lambert from Chupukama Ridge Guadalcanal 1360m, Solomon Islands (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Probably closest to Bougainville Crow (Corvus meeki), Brown-headed Crow (Corvus fuscicapillus) and Grey Crow (Corvus tristis), all apparently forming part of an "old endemic" Melanesian group. May form a superspecies with Bougainville Crow (Corvus meeki) and sometimes treated as conspecific, but differs in bill and eye colours, nature of nasal bristles, and plumage gloss.

Proposed subspecies vegetus (described from southern Santa Isabel) considered inadequately differentiated from those in rest of species' range.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

woodfordi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1887) - Solomon Islands.
vegetus Tristram, 1894 - Solomon Islands (Choiseul and Santa Isabel).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for White-billed Crow (Corvus woodfordi) - 10 files

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