Hooded Crow

Other names
Scientiphic name: corvus cornix.

Description
It has the same dimensions of the Carrion Crow. It has a light gray body plumage with black head, throat, wings and tail. The bill is very heavy and black. The legs are black, too.

Similar species
Carrion Crow, Eurasian Magpie, Common Raven, Eurasian Jackdaw.

Behaviour
Like all the corvids, the Hooded Crow is very intelligent. They are often seen in flocks, sometimes mixed with Carrion Crows.

Diet
This bird is omnivore. It eats small rodents and lizards, worms, insects, eggs and chicks stolen from other birds' nests, seeds, carrion, berries and fruit.

Calls
the call is a gruff, loud kraah, krahh, kraah, the flight call is a queruleous kreew, kreew.

Reproduction
The Hooded Crow nests in May and makes a big nest on a tree using twigs. There it lays about five blue eggs mottled with brown. The chicks are nidiculous.