Cape Crow
Corvus capensis
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,397
- Most observed in
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
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 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.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Cape crow”.