Carrion Crow (Corvus corone (Linnaeus, 1758))
Scientific name: Corvus corone (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common name: Carrion Crow
French name: Corneille noire
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Corvidae
Size: Body size: 45 to 47 cm; Weight: 450 to 600 g; Wingspan : 92 to 100 cm.
Habitat: Common and widespread: Open country, moor lands and dry areas.
Food: Various food including carrions, invertebrates, seeds and berries. The Carrion Crow also visit other bird's nests and eat chicks and eggs.
Nesting: The female lays 3 to 5 eggs, in April-May, in a bulky stick nest often built in a tree.
Migration: Resident.
Geographic area: Europe, western to a line from Denmark to the North of Italia, missing in the North of Scotland. In eastern Europe the Carrion Crow is replaced by the Hooded Crow. You can find again the Carrion Crow in Eastern Asia.
The Carrion Crow is a totally black bird, including bill and legs.
It shows a short square tail.
Both sexes are similar.
The carrion Crow differs from the Common Raven by its thinner bill and its throat feathers are not fluffing.
The Carrion Crow differs from the Rook by its wider and not whitish bill.

Carrion Crow (Corvus corone) - Yvelines, France - April 4th 2006
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Carrion Crow (Corvus corone)
Most often, I can see Carrion Crows in wooded areas.
Rooks are merely seen on roadsides and open fields.


Carrion Crow (Corvus corone) - Yvelines, France - March 3rd 2009
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Carrion Crow (Corvus corone)
I am not yet an expert to have the correct exposure with very dark subjects.
Hopefully we can adjust while processing raw files.


Carrion Crow (Corvus corone) - Yvelines, France - February 7th 2008
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Carrion Crow (Corvus corone)
As my EOS 300D camera measures a center weighted exposure (on the black carrion crow's plumage), I have set a -1 IL correction.


Carrion Crow (Corvus corone) - Yvelines, France - April 3rd 2008
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Carrion Crow (Corvus corone)
The Carrion crow that I observe are most of the times solitary birds.


Carrion Crow (Corvus corone) - Yvelines, France - April 3rd 2008
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Carrion Crow (Corvus corone)
Carrion crows are not a very shy birds. It is easy to shoot close-up pictures.

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