American crow
Amazing fact
An American crow may pick up an ant and rub it over its feathers.
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An American crow may pick up an ant and rub it over its feathers.
THE REAL WORLD
The real American crow
- Scientific name
- Corvus brachyrhynchos
- Japanese name
- アメリカガラス
- Group
- Birds
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Corvidae
- Genus
- Corvus
This crow lives all over North America. It also does well in suburban neighborhoods and city parks.
It is black all over, with glossy feathers. Young birds have blue eyes and are pink inside the mouth.
To open hard-shelled food such as a walnut, it flies up high with it and drops it onto a hard surface.
How the American crow lives
It looks for food while walking on the ground or along tree branches. It hides meat and nuts to eat later. In the late afternoon, many gather in an area with large trees. At nightfall, the flock often moves from its gathering place to its night roost.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity WebBasic data
- Weight
- average 450 g
- Lifespan
- up to 14 years in the wild
- Active
- By day (diurnal)
- Diet
- Insects and their larvae, worms, fruit, grains and nuts
- Range
- North America
Where the American crow has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- アメリカガラス
- 简体中文
- 短嘴鸦
- 繁體中文
- 短嘴鴉
- 한국어
- 미국까마귀
- Español
- Cuervo americano
- Français
- Corneille d'Amérique
- Deutsch
- Amerikakrähe
- Português (Brasil)
- Corvo-americano
- Italiano
- Cornacchia americana
- العربية
- زاغ أمريكي
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Gagak amerika
- Tiếng Việt
- Quạ Mỹ
- Русский
- Американский ворон
- Türkçe
- Amerikan kargası
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Corvus brachyrhynchosChecked: 2026-11-04
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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