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jackdaw
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Jackdaws are two species of bird in the genus Coloeus closely related to, but generally smaller than, crows and ravens (Corvus). They have a blackish crown, wings, and tail, with the rest of their plumage paler. The word Coloeus is Neo-Latin, from the Ancient Greek for jackdaws: '''' ().In the Birds by Aristophanes, Euelpides speaks to his jackdaw as the first line of the play. They come from Asia, Europe, Africa, and Siberia.
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- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyCorvidae
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Jackdaws are two species of bird in the genus Coloeus closely related to, but generally smaller than, crows and ravens (Corvus). They have a blackish crown, wings, and tail, with the rest of their plumage paler. The word Coloeus is Neo-Latin, from the Ancient Greek for jackdaws: '' ().In the Birds by Aristophanes, Euelpides speaks to his jackdaw as the first line of the play. They come from Asia, Europe, Africa, and Siberia.
==Taxonomy== While some authors consider Coloeus a subgenus of Corvus, others have classified Coloeus as a distinct genus in the family Corvidae. Following Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide, the International Ornithological Congress has also reassigned the two jackdaw species from the genus Corvus to the genus Coloeus''.