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    (c) Dave Curtis, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) Nik Borrow, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Sergey Yeliseev, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) Patrick Gijsbers - www.patrickgijsbers.com, all rights reserved

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Cape Crow

Corvus capensis

Worldwide
1,861 observations
Group
Birds

About

The Cape crow or black crow (Corvus capensis) is slightly larger (48–50 cm in length) than the carrion crow and is completely black with a slight gloss of purple in its feathers. It has proportionately longer legs, wings and tail too 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...

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