Cape Crow (Corvus capensis)
About the Cape Crow
The Cape crow or black crow (Corvus capensis) is slightly larger (48–50 cm in length) than the carrion crow and is completely black with a slight gloss of purple in its feathers. It also has proportionately longer legs, wings, and tail, and has a much longer, slimmer bill that seems to be adapted for probing into the ground for invertebrates. The head feathers have a coppery-purple gloss and the throat feathers are quite long and fluffed out in some calls and displays.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 45 recordings for this species: 4 CC BY-NC-SA · 2 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchosrecording
- Carrion CrowCorvus coronerecording
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragusrecording
- Flores CrowCorvus florensisrecording
- Hooded CrowCorvus cornixrecording
- House CrowCorvus splendensrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.