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Pied Crow

Corvus albus · Family Corvidae

Corvus albus

Family Corvidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Corvidae
GBIF occurrence records
509,446
Countries and territories with records
81
Pied Crow
Frank Vassen from Brussels, Belgium · Corvus albus -Etosha National Park, Namibia-8.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Frank Vassen from Brussels, Belgium · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · JMK · Corvus_albus,_2s_roep,_2022-10-20_15h58,_Pretoria,_a.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · JMK · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 509,446 occurrence records from 81 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (61.4%), Kenya (7.8%), Uganda (3.1%), Tanzania (2.8%) and Namibia (2.6%); together they account for 77.7% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.79% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Corvus albus combines the genus name Corvus with the species epithet albus. The Warbla app catalog lists 44 species of the genus Corvus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Corvus brachyrhynchos, Corvus corax and Corvus corone.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 132 species of the family Corvidae. This species ranks 21st among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Corvus brachyrhynchos. Its record count is 56.1% of the family average (908,707). The family Corvidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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