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Corvus brachyrhynchos (American Crow)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) is a large passerine bird species of the family Corvidae. It is a common bird found throughout much of North America.American crows are the new world counterpart to the carrion crow and the hooded crow.Although the American crow and the hooded crow are very similar in size, structure and behavior, their calls are different. The American crow nevertheless occupies the same role the hooded crow does in Eurasia.
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Infraspecies

Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos
Corvus brachyrhynchos caurinus
Corvus brachyrhynchos hargravei
Corvus brachyrhynchos hesperis
Corvus brachyrhynchos pascuus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
8
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.58147
EDGE Score: 1.27577
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Attributes

Clutch Size [7]  5
Clutches / Year [4]  1
Fledging [2]  30 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [3]  27,000,000
Incubation [4]  18 days
Maximum Longevity [4]  20 years
Snout to Vent Length [2]  17 inches (44 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Coastal
Adult Weight [2]  441 grams
Birth Weight [4]  16 grams
Female Weight [6]  1.045 lbs (474 g)
Male Weight [6]  1.186 lbs (538 g)
Weight Dimorphism [6]  13.5 %
Breeding Habitat [3]  Generalist, Agricultural
Wintering Geography [3]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [3]  Generalist, Agricultural
Diet [5]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore, Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Ectothermic [5]  10 %
Diet - Endothermic [5]  10 %
Diet - Fish [5]  10 %
Diet - Fruit [5]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [5]  20 %
Diet - Scavenger [5]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [5]  10 %
Forages - Understory [5]  20 %
Forages - Ground [5]  80 %
Female Maturity [4]  2 years
Male Maturity [4]  2 years

Ecoregions

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Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Providers

Shelter 
Panicum virgatum (old switch panic grass)[9]
Quercus phellos (Willow Oak)[9]
Quercus velutina (Black Oak)[9]

Consumers

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Citations

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♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 6Verbeek, NAM. and C. Caffrey. 2002. American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos).In A. Poole and F. Gill [eds.], The birds of North America, No. 647. The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
♦ 7Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Study of Northern Virginia Ecology
♦ 10SPECIES ASSESSMENT FOR GREAT BASIN SPADEFOOT TOAD (SPEA INTERMONTANA) IN WYOMING, REBECCA S. BUSECK, DOUGLAS A. KEINATH AND MICHELE GERAUD, United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, January 2005
♦ 11Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 12International Flea Database
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0