Cape Crow
Corvus capensis
Conservation Status
Least ConcernAves · Passeriformes · Corvidae
About
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.
Fun Fact
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.
Quick Facts
Habitat
To be updated
Diet
Eats grain and other seeds, and invertebrates, which it digs for with powerful downward stabs of its long bill.
Lifespan
To be updated
Threats
- Habitat Change
- Human Disturbance