Scientific Name:   Corvus brachyrhynchos

Length:   40–50 cm (16–20 in)

Weight:   300 to 600 g (11 to 21 oz)

Wingspan:   85–100 cm (33–39 in)

Nest:   Made largely of medium-sized twigs with an inner cup lined with pine needles, weeds, soft bark, or animal hair.

Eggs:   4-6, sometimes 3-9. Dull blue-green to gray-green, blotched with brown and gray. Incubation is probably mostly or entirely by female, about 18 days.

Feeding Behavior:   Feeds mostly on the ground, sometimes in trees. Scavenges along roads and at dumps, eating anything it can find, including insects, spiders, snails, earthworms, frogs, small snakes, shellfish, carrion, garbage, eggs and young of other birds, seeds, grain, berries, fruit.

Young:   Fed by both parents and sometimes by "helpers." Young leave nest about 4-5 weeks after hatching.

Range:   Woodlands, farms, fields, river groves, shores, towns. Lives in a wide variety of semi-open habitats, from farming country and open fields to clearings in the woods.

Brief Description:   All black with strong bill, rather short square-tipped tail. Sociable, especially when not nesting, crows may gather in communal roosts on winter nights, sometimes with thousands or even tens of thousands roosting in one grove.