Crows (Corvidae)
Piping Crow (Corvus typicus) - HBW 14, p. 619
French: Corneille des Célèbes
German: Celebeskrähe
Spanish: Cuervo de Célebes
Other common names: Celebes (Pied) Crow
Taxonomy: Gazzola typica Bonaparte, 1853, "Nouvelle Calédonie"; error = Buton Island, Sulawesi.
Sometimes placed in separate genus, Nesocorax. Forms a species pair with C. unicolor, which it resembles closely in structure; until recently, both were thought to belong with the "C. enca complex", but differ from that in their behaviour and vocalizations. Monotypic.
Distribution: C & S Sulawesi and smaller islands of Muna and Buton.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird in a tree, shaking the plumage, displaying and flying away Locality Tambing Lake, Lore Lindu National Park, Central Sulawesi, Sulawesi (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 30 July 2007 4 years ago 30 sec 4.1 -
A bird in a tree and flying away Locality Tambing Lake, Lore Lindu National Park, Central Sulawesi, Sulawesi (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 30 July 2007 4 years ago 33 sec 3.7 -
A bird preening in a tree Locality Dumoga Bone (Bogani Nani Wartabone) National Park, North Sulawesi, Sulawesi (Monotypic species)
John Gregory 1998 3 years ago 26 sec 3.5 -
A bird resting on a dead tree Locality Tambing Lake, Lore Lindu National Park, Central Sulawesi, Sulawesi (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 30 July 2007 4 years ago 22 sec 3.2 -
A bird in a tree, filmed from below. Congeners are calling nearby. Locality Lore Lindu National Park, Central Sulawesi, Sulawesi (Monotypic species)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 20 August 2009 33 weeks ago 13 sec 1.7
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A bird flying overhead.
Locality Lore Lindu National Park, Central Sulawesi, Sulawesi (Monotypic species)
David Beadle 25 October 2011 7 weeks ago 2.3
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