Brown-necked Raven

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When to see the Brown-necked Raven

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Brown-necked Raven

The map shades 30 countries with regular records, and 6 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Spain, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Somalia, Qatar, Italy.

About the Brown-necked Raven

The brown-necked raven is a larger bird than the carrion crow though not as large as the common raven. It has similar proportions to the common raven but the bill is not so large or deep and the wings tend to be a little more pointed in profile. The head and throat are a distinct brownish-black giving the bird its English name, while the rest of the plumage is black glossed with purple, blue or purplish-blue. Like the common raven, thick-billed raven and white-necked raven, it is one of the larger raven species. The feathers of this species often fade quite quickly to a brownish black and the bird can look distinctly brown by the time it moults. The feet, legs and bill are black.

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Easily confused with

Little CrowCorvus bennettiVoice: The little crow's calls range from a harsh hark-hark-hark-hark to a more raven-like ah-ah-ah. Collared CrowCorvus torquatusIt is about 52–55 cm in length—the same size or slightly larger than the carrion crow (C. corone), with proportionately slightly longer wings, tail, and bill. Sinaloa CrowCorvus sinaloaeThe Sinaloa crow is 35.5 to 38 cm (14 to 15 in) long; two individuals weighed 229 and 258 g (8.1 and 9.1 oz).

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