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Northern Raven
Corvus corax · Family Corvidae
Corvus corax
Family Corvidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Corvidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 12,314,515
- Countries and territories with records
- 102
About this species
This species has 12,314,515 occurrence records from 102 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (55.6%), Canada (20.3%), Sweden (6.5%), Denmark (2.3%) and Spain (2.3%); together they account for 87% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.61% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Corvus corax combines the genus name Corvus with the species epithet corax. 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 corone and Corvus cornix.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 132 species of the family Corvidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Corvus brachyrhynchos. Its record count is 13.6 times the family average (908,707). The family Corvidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.