Cuban Palm Crow (Corvus minutus)
About the Cuban Palm Crow
The Cuban palm crow (Corvus minutus) is a relatively small corvid that is endemic to the Caribbean island of Cuba. The Cuban palm crow was formally described in 1852 by the German-born ornithologist Juan Gundlach with the binomial Corvus minutus. It was long treated as a subspecies of Corvus palmarum, which was then called the "palm crow". Most taxonomic systems eventually followed a 1997 publication in recognizing the Cuban and Hispaniolan palm crows as separate monotypic species. However, as of late 2025, BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) retains the "palm crow" as a single species with two subspecies.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 28 recordings for this species: 17 CC BY-NC-SA · 11 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.
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Listed as recorded in Cuba 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.