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Corvus frugilegus · Family Corvidae

Corvus frugilegus

Family Corvidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Corvidae
GBIF occurrence records
1,831,130
Countries and territories with records
84
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Brian Snelson from Hockley, Essex, England · Corvus frugilegus -Dartmoor, Devon, England-8.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Brian Snelson from Hockley, Essex, England · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
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About this species

This species has 1,831,130 occurrence records from 84 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United Kingdom (27.1%), Denmark (14.8%), Sweden (14.1%), France (7.8%) and Germany (6.9%); together they account for 70.7% of the total. In the United Kingdom, this species accounts for 0.79% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Corvus frugilegus combines the genus name Corvus with the species epithet frugilegus. 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 13th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Corvus brachyrhynchos. Its record count is 2 times 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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