Crows (Corvidae)
Eurasian Jackdaw (Corvus monedula) - HBW 14, p. 617
French: Choucas des tours
German: Dohle
Spanish: Grajilla Occidental
Other common names: (Western/Common) Jackdaw
Taxonomy: Corvus Monedula Linnaeus, 1758, Europe = Sweden.
This species and C. dauuricus sometimes placed together in a separate genus, Coloeus. The two form a species pair and are sometimes considered conspecific, but they seem to replace each other geographically in vicinity of L Baikal and N Mongolia, meeting on very narrow front, but with very few reports of mixed pairings. Geographical variation complex, with individual and clinal variation. Other proposed races are turrium, brehmi and hilgerti (all described from Germany), ibericus (S Spain) and nigerrimus (Morocco), all synonymized with sperm.. View all taxonomy...
This species and C. dauuricus sometimes placed together in a separate genus, Coloeus. The two form a species pair and are sometimes considered conspecific, but they seem to replace each other geographically in vicinity of L Baikal and N Mongolia, meeting on very narrow front, but with very few reports of mixed pairings. Geographical variation complex, with individual and clinal variation. Other proposed races are turrium, brehmi and hilgerti (all described from Germany), ibericus (S Spain) and nigerrimus (Morocco), all synonymized with spermologus, and tischleri (NE Poland), sophiae (E Poland), schluteri (Belarus), collaris (Macedonia), pontocaspicus (Cyprus) and ultracollaris (Tien Shan), all treated as synonyms of soemmerringii. Four subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- monedula Linnaeus, 1758 - Scandinavia.
- spermologus Vieillot, 1817 - W & C Europe from British Is, S to Morocco and NW Algeria.
- cirtensis ( Rothschild & E. J. O. Hartert, 1912) - NE Algeria.
- soemmerringii J. G. Fischer von Waldheim, 1811 - E Europe (from S Finland, E Poland, Balkans, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, and N Israel) E in Asia to L Baikal, W China (W Xinjiang) and Kashmir.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Alarm call of a breeding adult. Locality Gurb, Barcelona Province, Catalonia, Spain
Carles Martorell 6 July 2011 1 year ago 4 -
A small flock flying overhead Locality Surrey, England, Great Britain
(ssp spermalogus)
Stuart Fisher 5 December 2005 4 years ago 4 -
Some birds calling. Locality Lake Volvi, Central Macedonia Region, Greece
Theo Mamais 4 March 2009 27 weeks ago 3
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