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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Corvus
- Image
- Large-billed Crow in Bhigwan August 2025 by Tisha Mukherjee 01.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Corvus macrorhynchos
- Commons category
- Corvus macrorhynchos
- Commons gallery
- Corvus macrorhynchos
- wingspan
- 115
- litter size
- 4.9
- egg incubation period
- 18
- taxon common name
- gralha-de-bico-grosso
- taxon range
- Nanling Mountains
- short name
- C. macrorhynchos
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Encyclopedic overview
Large-billed crow in Tokyo, Japan. Note the robust beak, rounded head and iridescent black plumage. In Bhigwan, Maharashtra, India. The large-billed crow (Corvus macrorhynchos), formerly referred to widely as the jungle crow, is a widespread Asian species of crow. It is very adaptable and is able to survive on a wide range of food sources, making it capable of colonizing new areas, due to which it is often considered a nuisance, especially on islands. It has a large bill, which is the source of its scientific name macrorhynchos (Ancient Greek for "long-billed") and it is sometimes known by the common name thick-billed crow. It can also be mistaken for a common raven. The eastern jungle crow and Indian jungle crow were once considered conspecific and together called the jungle crow.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Large-billed Crow” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.