Crows (Corvidae)
White-necked Raven (Corvus albicollis) - HBW 14, p. 640
French: Corbeau à nuque blanche
German: Geierrabe
Spanish: Cuervo Cuelliblanco
Other common names: Cape/White-naped Raven, African White-necked Raven
Taxonomy: Corvus albicollis Latham, 1790, Great Namaqualand, South Africa.
Forms a species-pair with C. crassirostris, the two sometimes placed in a separate genus, Corvultur. Monotypic.
Distribution: Uganda and W Kenya S over E DRCongo, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, N & W Mozambique, most of Zimbabwe (except W), E & S South Africa (S to Cape Town), Swaziland and Lesotho.
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Bird on a rock, calling Locality Sani Pass, KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa (Monotypic species)
Roland Bischoff 20 November 2011 11 weeks ago 26 sec 4.5 -
a few different birds Locality Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Daniêl Jimenez 18 September 2010 1 year ago 17 sec 4.4 -
A bird on a fence and then walking on the ground Locality Kisoro, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 12 September 2006 4 years ago 24 sec 4.4 -
A close-up of a bird on the ground Locality Kisoro, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 12 September 2006 4 years ago 29 sec 4.4 -
An adult landing, taking a piece of bread, and flying off Locality Sani Pass, Lesotho (Monotypic species)
Francesc Capdevila i Torr... 13 October 2002 8 years ago 21 sec 3.5
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A bird on the ground
Locality Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
Piotr Jonczyk 2 March 2011 1 year ago 4 -
A bird walk through the meadow.
Locality Sani Top Chalet, Sani Pass, Lesotho (Monotypic species)
Carmelo López 15 November 2010 2 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 3.3 -
Adult on the ground
Locality Mount Nyiragongo, Virunga National Park, Nord-Kivu Province, Zaire (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (Monotypic species)
Tommy Pedersen 6 January 1991 48 weeks ago 3 -
A perched adult bird.
Locality Berlin Zoo, Berlin, Germany (Monotypic species)
Tomasz Doroń 5 October 2009 2 years ago 2.5
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2 birds calling while flying around Table Mountain Locality Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa
(Monotypic species)
Peter Waanders 7 January 2003 2 years ago 3.5 -
Calls Locality San Antonio Zoo, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA (United States)
pcx 18 March 2010 45 weeks ago 3
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