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This bird is famous for its acorn feeding habits but do you know what it is?
British Birds - Crows and Cuckoos
The all-black carrion crow is one of the cleverest, most adaptable of our birds. The closely related hooded crow has recently been split as a separate species. With cuckoos, it is the male's call that is the very familiar "cuckoo". Generally, if you hear a cuckoo singing you will probably not see it until it stops singing, which is when it flies away from its song post.
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What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Benutzer:BS Thurner Hof
European Magpie
Eurasian Jay
Carrion Crow
Common Cuckoo
- Group: Crows and allies
- Binomial: Corvus corone
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Corvidae
- Status: Resident Breeding Species
- Often quite fearless, although can be wary of man.
- Fairly solitary, usually found alone or in pairs.
- Highly intelligent, and are among the most intelligent of all animals.
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What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Teemu Lehtinen
European Magpie
Common Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Hooded Crow
- Group: Crows and allies
- Binomial: Pica pica
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Corvidae
- Status: Resident Breeding Species
- In the spring, large numbers often gather to resolve territorial conflicts and social standing.
- These gatherings, called parliaments, probably gave rise to the many nursery rhymes and poems about this bird.
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What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Mdf
Hooded Crow
Common Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Eurasian Jay
- Group: Cuckoo
- Binomial: Coccyzus americanus
- Order: Cuculiformes
- Family: Cuculidae
- Status: Rare Vagrant
- The entire time from egg-laying to fledging may be as little as 17 days.
- Chicks are able to climb about with agility at 7-9 days of age.
- Occasionally lay eggs in the nests of other birds.
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What is the name of this bird?
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Photograph courtesy of Brian Snelson
Carrion Crow
European Magpie
Rook
Eurasian Jay
- Group: Crows and allies
- Binomial: Corvus frugilegus
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Corvidae
- Status: Resident Breeding Species
- Untidy appearance arising from the slightly peaked head and the thigh feathers, which look like baggy trousers.
- Rarely alone and so their raucous caws can become overwhelming.
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What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Panafotkas
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Common Raven
Common Cuckoo
Hooded Crow
- Group: Crows and allies
- Binomial: Corvus cornix
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Corvidae
- Status: Resident Breeding Species
- On coastal cliffs the eggs of gulls, cormorants and other birds are stolen when their owners are absent.
- In the 18th century, Scottish shepherds would make offerings to them to keep them from attacking sheep.
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What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of David Hofmann
Rook
Common Raven
Eurasian Jay
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Group: Crows and allies
- Binomial: Corvus corax
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Corvidae
- Status: Resident Breeding Species
- Has coexisted with humans for thousands of years and in some areas has been so numerous that it is considered a pest.
- Has been the subject of mythology, folklore, art and literature.
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What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Malte Uhl
Hooded Crow
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
European Magpie
Red-billed Chough
- Group: Crows and allies
- Binomial: Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Corvidae
- Status: Resident Breeding Species
- Pairs for life and displays fidelity to its breeding site, which is usually a cave or crevice in a cliff face.
- Has been depicted on postage stamps of a few countries, including the Isle of Man.
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What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Steve Garvie
Common Cuckoo
Jackdaw
Carrion Crow
European Magpie
- Group: Cuckoo
- Binomial: Cuculus canorus
- Order: Cuculiformes
- Family: Cuculidae
- Status: Breeding Summer Visitor
- Lays its eggs in the nests of other bird species.
- The female pushes one egg out of the other bird's nest, lays and flies off.
- The whole process is achieved in only about 10 seconds.
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What is the name of this bird?
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Eurasian Jay
Rook
Common Raven
Hooded Crow
- Group: Crows and allies
- Binomial: Garrulus glandarius
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Corvidae
- Status: Resident Breeding Species
- Shy woodland birds, rarely moving far from cover.
- Famous for their acorn feeding habits and in the autumn you may see them burying acorns for retrieving later in the winter.
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What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Unknown
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
European Magpie
- Group: Crows and allies
- Binomial: Corvus monedula
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Corvidae
- Status: Resident Breeding Species
- Perched birds often chatter together, and before settling for the night large roosting flocks make a cackling noise.
- Generally cautious of people in the forest or countryside, but much tamer in urban areas.
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