Cape Crow
Corvus capensis
Summary 2
The Cape crow or black crow (Corvus capensis) is slightly larger (48–50 cm in length) than the carrion crow and is completely black with a slight gloss of purple in its feathers. It has proportionately longer legs, wings and tail too and has a much longer, slimmer bill that seems to be adapted for probing into the ground for invertebrates. The head feathers have a coppery-purple gloss and the throat feathers are quite long and fluffed out...
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- (c) Dave Curtis, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/43886809@N03/6522208251
- (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvus_capensis
