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The Hooded Crow [Corvus cornix] is also known locally as Scotch Crow, Danish Crow, and Corbie or Grey Crow in Ireland. It is found across northern, eastern and south Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. It breeds in northern and Eastern Europe, and closely allied forms inhabit southern Europe and western Asia. Where its range overlaps with Carrion Crow, as in northern Britain, Germany, Denmark, northern Italy and Siberia, their hybrids are fertile.
LENGTH: 46 cm WEIGHT: 510 g WINGSPAN: 98 cm
MALE & FEMALE: This is an ashy grey bird with black head, throat, wings, tail with thigh feathers which are black and mostly glossy with the dark shafts giving it a streaky appearance; the bill, eyes and feet are black.
JUVENILE: When first hatched the young are much blacker than the parents, juveniles have duller plumage with bluish or greyish eyes and initially a red mouth.
FEEDING: The Hooded Crow is an omnivorous, opportunistic forager and feeder and is a constant scavenger. It drops molluscs and crabs to break them after the manner of the Carrion Crow, on coastal cliffs the eggs of gulls, cormorants and other birds are stolen when their owners are absent, and it will enter the burrow of the puffin to steal eggs. It will also feed on small mammals, scraps, smaller birds and carrion.
FLIGHT: The flight is slow and heavy and usually straight.