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title: "Carrion Crow"
description: "Corvus corone — Uccelli. The carrion crow (Corvus corone) is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae, native to western Europe and the eastern Palearctic."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/carrion-crow
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Carrion Crow

> Corvus corone — Uccelli. The carrion crow (Corvus corone) is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae, native to western Europe and the eastern Palearctic.

- Scientific name: *Corvus corone*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `urban` (Città e giardini)
- iNaturalist observations: 119677
- Wikidata: [Q26198](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26198)
- iNaturalist taxon: [204496](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/204496)

## Names

- en: Carrion Crow
- de: Rabenkrähe
- es: Corneja negra
- fr: Corneille noire
- nl: Zwarte kraai
- pt: Gralha-preta
- pl: Czarnowron

## Countries with the most observations

GB (25293), DE (17476), FR (10002), JP (4214), ES (3548), NL (3494), RU (2992), PT (2352), CH (2313), AT (2241), BE (2074), LU (1342)

## Summary

The carrion crow (Corvus corone) is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae, native to western Europe and the eastern Palearctic. Along with the hooded crow (Corvus cornix), the carrion crow occupies a similar ecological niche in Eurasia to the American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) in North America. The two species look very similar to one another, but can be differentiated by size, as the carrion crow is larger and of a stockier build compared to the American crow.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrion_crow

## Photo

![Carrion Crow](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/carrion-crow/medium.jpg)

Photo: Evan Williams · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/345722066

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/carrion-crow?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).