Carrion crow
Amazing fact
Carrion crows have been seen using cars to crack nuts too hard for their beaks.
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Carrion crows have been seen using cars to crack nuts too hard for their beaks.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Carrion crow
- Scientific name
- Corvus corone
- Japanese name
- ハシボソガラス
- Group
- Birds
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Corvidae
- Genus
- Corvus
It likes open places such as farmland and riverbanks, and calls with a hoarse 'gaa, gaa'.
Its bill is thinner than a large-billed crow's, and with no bulging forehead, its head slopes smoothly into its bill.
Young birds sometimes stay with their parents to learn how to find food or to help raise the next chicks.
How the Carrion crow lives
It is active during the day. It eats insects, nuts and animal remains, among other foods. It sometimes hides food and returns to eat it later. After pairing up, it leaves the flock and claims a territory.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web国土交通省 山国川河川事務所Basic data
- Size
- Total length: 50 cmWingspan: 99 cm日本野鳥の会 BIRD FAN
- Weight
- 300–450 gUniversity of Michigan Animal Diversity Web
- Lifespan
- up to 29 years in captivityUniversity of Michigan Animal Diversity Web
- Active
- By day (diurnal)University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web
- Diet
- Insects, fruit, animal carcasses and other foods国土交通省 山国川河川事務所
- Range
- Europe and much of AsiaUniversity of Michigan Animal Diversity Web
Where the Carrion 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
- ハシボソガラス
- 简体中文
- 小嘴乌鸦
- 繁體中文
- 小嘴烏鴉
- 한국어
- 송장까마귀
- Español
- Corneja negra
- Français
- Corneille noire
- Deutsch
- Aaskrähe
- Português (Brasil)
- Gralha-preta
- Italiano
- Cornacchia nera
- العربية
- زاغ الجيف
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Gagak bangkai
- Tiếng Việt
- Quạ đen
- Русский
- Чёрная ворона
- Türkçe
- Leş kargası
- ไทย
- อีกากินซาก
- اردو
- مردار خور کوا
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 日本野鳥の会 BIRD FAN — ハシボソガラスChecked: 2026-11-03
- 国土交通省 山国川河川事務所 — 山国川の鳥図鑑 ハシボソガラスChecked: 2026-11-03
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Corvus coroneChecked: 2026-11-03
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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