Mangoverde :: World Bird Guide :: Crows, Jays and Magpies :: Common Raven

Common Raven Corvus corax

Described by: Linnaeus (1758)
Alternate common name(s): Northern Raven, Raven, Holarctic Raven
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors

Photographs

Seward Peninsula, Alaska, USA - Jun, 2007 © Glen Tepke  Seward Peninsula, Alaska, USA - Jun, 2007 © Glen Tepke  Grand Pre, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada - Sep 25, 2002 © Richard Stern  Brier Island, Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada - May, 2003 © Richard Stern  Colorado, USA - Date unknown © Steve Messick 
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Range

Palearctic and Nearctic;
(1) Islands in the Bering Sea, Aleutian Is. w. to Attu, w. and n. Alaska, Canada including Arctic islands, and n. United States (ne. Minnesota, n. Wisconsin, n. Michigan, n. New York, n. New England). Isolated population in the Alppalachians (e. Tennessee, w. North Carolina, w. Virginia and nw. Georgia). Coasts of Greenland.
(2) Wc. United States along the e. edge of the Rocky Mountains to w. Oklahoma and c. Texas s. to Mexico (Baja and the c. highlands), Revillagigedo Is. s. to Nicaragua.
(3) Iceland and the Faroe Is.
(4) Europe from Arctic coasts s. to Mediterranean region, and w. Asia.
(5) Se. Europe (Turkey), Near East, and Middle East to Pakistan, and w. India.
(6) N. Africa from Morocco to Egypt. Canary Is.
(7) C. Asia (w. China), Himalayas (n. India, s. Tibet).
(8) Ne. Asia (se. Siberia, Sakhalin Is., Kuril Is.) and n. Japan.

Videos

No videos are available for this species

Sounds

Location unknown - Date unknown Source: Naturesongs.com
Location unknown - Date unknown Source: Naturesongs.com
Location unknown - Date unknown Source: Naturesongs.com
Location unknown - Date unknown Source: Avisoft
Location unknown - Date unknown Source: ETI BioInformatics

References

Clements, James F. Birds of the World: A Checklist. Vista, CA: Ibis Publishing Company, 2000.

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