Brown-headed Crow Corvus fuscicapillus Scientific name definitions
- LC Least Concern
- Names (22)
- Subspecies (2)
Stephen Debus
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated July 3, 2013
Text last updated July 3, 2013
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Bulgarian | Кафявоглава врана |
| Catalan | corb capbrú |
| Croatian | smeđoglava vrana |
| Dutch | Bruinkopkraai |
| English | Brown-headed Crow |
| English (United States) | Brown-headed Crow |
| Estonian | pruunpea-vares |
| French | Corneille à tête brune |
| French (Canada) | Corneille à tête brune |
| German | Braunkopfkrähe |
| Indonesian | Gagak kepala-cokelat |
| Japanese | チャガシラガラス |
| Norwegian | brunhodekråke |
| Polish | wrona brązowogłowa |
| Russian | Буроголовая ворона |
| Serbian | Smeđoglava vrana |
| Slovak | vrana hnedohlavá |
| Spanish | Cuervo Cabecipardo |
| Spanish (Spain) | Cuervo cabecipardo |
| Swedish | brunhuvad kråka |
| Turkish | Kahverengi Başlı Karga |
| Ukrainian | Ворона буроголова |
Corvus fuscicapillus Gray, 1859
PROTONYM:
Corvus fuscicapillus
Gray, 1859. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Part 27(2), p.157.
TYPE LOCALITY:
'Dorey, New Guinea;' error for Aru Islands (see Wallace, 1863, Ibis, p. 100).
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2024
Definitions
- CORVUS
- corvus
- fuscicapilla / fuscicapillum / fuscicapillus
The Key to Scientific Names
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UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
Originally Appeared in
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding
Distribution of the Brown-headed Crow
