Cape Crow
Corvus capensis
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The Cape crow or black crow is slightly larger than the carrion crow and is completely black with a slight gloss of purple in its feathers. It also has proportionately longer legs, wings, and tail, and has a much longer, slimmer bill that seems to be adapted for probing into the ground for invertebrates. The head feathers have a coppery-purple gloss and the throat feathers are quite long and fluffed out in some calls and displays.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Corvidae
- Genus
- Corvus