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American Crow

Corvus brachyrhynchos · Family Corvidae

Corvus brachyrhynchos

Family Corvidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Corvidae
GBIF occurrence records
29,079,916
Countries and territories with records
7
American Crow
Unknown · Corvus-brachyrhynchos-001.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Unknown · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Jonathon Jongsma · Corvus_brachyrhynchos_-_American_Crow_XC80525.mp3 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jonathon Jongsma · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 29,079,916 occurrence records from 7 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (80.6%) and Canada (19.4%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 2.1% of all bird records in GBIF.

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

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 132 species of the family Corvidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 32 times the family average (908,707). The family Corvidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Corvidae

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