#1373 · 🐦 birds

Large-billed Crow

🇳🇱 Dikbekkraai ·Corvus macrorhynchos

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The large-billed crow ( Corvus macrorhynchos ), 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 "large beak"), and it is sometimes known by the common name thick-billed...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 29,554iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
29,554 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Georg Wagler in 1827 (199 years ago).