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Australian crows and ravens are challenging to identify; concentrate on call, throat-hackles, behavior, and location. Calls include fairly short, repeated “ah-ah-ah” and a unique rattling croaking. Throat hackles can look impressive, leading to confusion with ravens. Inhabits many habitats in northern two-thirds of Australia and in New Guinea. The default crow/raven of Darwin, Cairns, and Brisbane. (eBird)
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Australian members of the Corvid family seem much shyer than their counterparts elsewhere, which makes them doubly difficult to photograph. This Torresian Crow was chasing something through the underbrush and I managed to get one in-focus shot before he was gone again.
Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia. October 2022.
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Yetman, New South Wales
This bird was a regular visitor to soak his prey before eating it. As it dries out the birds are forced to rely on stock troughs for water.
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Torresian Crow| Central Australia NT
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Especie #481
Passeriformes
Corvidae
Torresian Crow
Cuervo de Torres
Corvus orru
Siempre me resulta casi imposible el ID 😅 Gracias x cualquier sugerencia.
Thanks a lot for any other suggestions with the ID. Always challenging with this species.
LC
Least Concern
Litchfield Tourist Park
Northern Territory
Australia
There are several species that are all very similar.
Identification is often made by the call or the area where it occurs...
O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat - Lamington National Park
Australia
The Torresian Crow is found across northern Australia and in Western Australia, from Geraldton to Norseman. It is more common in coastal and tropical areas, being only patchily distributed inland.
The Torresian Crow is found on rainforest fringes, in open forests and woodlands, taller scrublands, beaches and in dry areas, along watercourses with tall timber.
The Torresian Crow eats the most grain, compared with other corvids, but will also eat fruit, insects and other invertebrates, eggs, garbage and carrion (dead animals).
Photographed Warana, Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia.
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....from a walk through Oxley Creek Common: Oxley Creek Common is home to a remarkable variety of birds. An experienced observer can find as many as 70 species in one hour of observation during the spring about 10% of all Australia's bird species and several times the diversity one could find walking the suburbs. In the past eleven years over 190 species have been recorded on the Common. (Source: University of Queensland)
Torresian Crow
Scientific Name: Corvus orru
Description: The Torresian Crow is a large glossy black crow with short throat hackles (feathers). The feathers of the head and neck have white bases. The eye is white with a fine blue eye-ring. Immature birds are duller black with a brown eye. When landing, this species characteristically shuffles its wings. It will be seen outside breeding season in large flocks. It has also been called the Australian Crow.
Similar species: There are six members of the family Corvidae found in Australia: five native breeding species and one infrequent self-introduction. Three are called crows and three ravens, although there is really little difference. Most Australian species are similar in size and colouration, and can be difficult to tell apart. In some cases, identification is aided by the separate ranges of different species, but differences in plumage, habits and calls offer good clues for distinguishing them. The bases of the feathers of the crows are white, while those of the ravens are grey, although this is only useful if birds are held in the hand or if discarded feathers are found. The Torresian Crow's short staccato call and its habit of wing-shuffling can help to identify it from other crows.
Distribution: The Torresian Crow is found across northern Australia and in Western Australia, from Geraldton to Norseman. It is more common in coastal and tropical areas, being only patchily distributed inland. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, the Moluccas and New Britain. It is the most common corvid (crow or raven) of coastal towns from Forster, New South Wales to Brisbane, Queensland and also in Darwin, Northern Territory.
Habitat: The Torresian Crow is found on rainforest fringes, in open forests and woodlands, taller scrublands, beaches and in dry areas, along watercourses with tall timber. It is also found around farms and in croplands. It requires tall trees for nesting.
Seasonal movements: Sedentary as adults, but immatures form nomadic flocks.
Feeding: The Torresian Crow eats the most grain, compared with other corvids, but will also eat fruit, insects and other invertebrates, eggs, garbage and carrion (dead animals). Often seen feeding along roads. Perches on the heads of crop plants or on tall artificial structures.
Breeding: The Torresian Crow forms monogamous breeding pairs that maintain a permanent territory. Both sexes build the nest, which is a bowl of sticks lined with grass, placed high in a tree (over 10 m) or artificial structure. The Torresian Crow's nest is made of finer material than the other corvid species'. Both parents share feeding duties.
Call: Nasal, staccato caw: 'uk-uk-uk-uk', usually more than three notes. Also harsher 'arr-arr-arr' aggressive call.
Minimum Size: 48cm
Maximum Size: 53cm
Average size: 50cm
Average weight: 550g
Breeding season: August to October in south; November to February in north
Clutch Size: Three to five.
Incubation: 20 days
Nestling Period: 42 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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(All Hallows Eve mix) (Trying out a new zoom lens and teleconverter)
Title words by John Hogg from The Parlour menagerie, wherein are exhibited in a descriptive and anecdotical form, the habits, the resources, and the mysterious instincts of the more interesting portions of animal creation / Withupwards of three hundred wood engravings by Thomas Bewick, James Reiveley, William Harvey, and others. (1887)
Description: The Torresian Crow is a large crow found in forests and woodlands across northern Australia. It is all black with a white eye.
Size: 50cm
Habitat: open forests, woodlands, scrublands, along watercourses, farms and city suburbs with tall trees.
Food: seeds, fruit, insects and other invertebrates, eggs, garbage and carrion.
Breeding: nest is a bowl of sticks lined with grass built high in a tree. Lays 3 - 5 eggs.
Range: across northern Australia and in Western Australia
Classification:-
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Corvidae
Genus:Corvus
Species:orru
Common Name:Torresian Crow
(Source: www.ozanimals.com )
At Oxley Creek Common. A juvenile Channel-billed Cuckoo calls for its breakfast. Soon enough, its Torresian Crow surrogate mother arrives with a juicy mantis and proceeds to make sure that Junior swallows the lot.
Amongst all the other subjects affected by the rainy morning in the Brisbane Botanic Gardens on Mt Coot-Tha, was this crow with a somewhat stoic look.
Torresian Crow (Corvus orru) - Clayfield, Brisbane, Australia - May 2024
I've previously uploaded this photo, but this time, I used Topaz to sharpen and reduce the noise, and the difference is quite impressive.
The original image can be found here flickr.com/photos/cyron/53893726796/
Corvidae (Corvus orru)
This photo shows one of the ways in which Crows differ from the Ravens with the lack of the throat hackles.
A Little Friarbird successfully drives off a Torresian Crow. We have an expression in Australia to convey surprise or annoyance. "Well stone the Crows!" which is why I thought of the David and Goliath comparison.
Torresian Crow (Corvus orru) - South Bank, Brisbane, Australia - August 2024
An overcast drizzly day, but the crows seemed to be enjoying it
The Torresian crow (Corvus orru), also called the Australian crow or Papuan crow, is a passerine bird in the crow family native to the north and west of Australia and nearby islands in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. The species has a black plumage, beak and mouth with white irises. The base of the feathers on the head and neck are white. The Torresian crow is slightly larger with a more robust bill than the morphologically similar little crow.
This juvenile crow and its parents are regular visitors to our yard, dropping lots of things in the yards and also in the birdbaths.
The parent had deposited a large chunk of bread in the birdbath and proceeded to feed bits of it to the juvenile. I am forever cleaning out the bird baths!
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This is the Torresian Crow (Corvus orru) pair that have adopted Ruth's pad as a base this past month. They are quite happy now for me to be within a few feet of them and last week they accompanied me on the first part of my walk! Taken on September 09, 2014, NSW, Australia.
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This crow is one of a family of four that visits our yard a fair bit, making use of the bird baths for bathing, and also depositing all manner of offerings in the water - sweet wrappers, bread crusts, biscuits, seeds, bits and pieces of mangled dead things. They have an uneasy truce with the magpies that visit, but try to chase away the brush turkeys when they appear in the yard.
You can tell this crow is immature as it has brown eyes, unlike the adults which have white eyes with a fine blue ring around them. It's also not as rich a black as the adults.