White-necked Crow

Corvus leucognaphalus

Cuervo Cuelliblanco

 
Photo: P. Genaro Rodríguez

 

A noisy, medium-sized black bird with a red eye. The white feathers at the base of the neck are rarely visible. Length: 48-51 cm.

Range: Hispaniola. Formerly common on Puerto Rico, but hunted to extinction in the middle of the last century. A candidate for reintroduction into Puerto Rico.

TAXONOMY: CORVIDAE

 
   

References

Biaggi, V. 1997. Las aves de Puerto Rico, 4th ed. Univ. de PR Press, Río Piedras.

Latta, S. C. 2002. Aves comunes de la República Dominicana. Sociedad Ornitológica de la Hispaniola, Santo Domingo.

Madge, S. and H. Burn 1994. Crows and Jays. Princeton University Press.

Raffaele, H.A., J.W. Wiley, O.H. Garrido, A.R. Keith, and J.I. Raffaele. 1998. Guide to the birds of the West Indies. Princeton.

White-necked Crow, Spanish text

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