Sinaloa Crow (Corvus sinaloae)
About the Sinaloa Crow
The Sinaloa crow (Corvus sinaloae) is a species of bird in the family Corvidae, the crows and jays. It is endemic to Mexico. What is now the Sinaloa crow was long thought to be a population of the "Mexican crow" Corvus imparatus; it was not recognized even as a subspecies. Eventually C. imparatus was named the Tamaulipas crow after the Mexican state where the type specimen had been collected. In 1958 L. Irby Davis published a study of the vocalizations of North American crows and detailed how the western Mexican population had a significantly different voice than the eastern Tamaulipas population. He described it as the new species C. sinaloae, the Sinaloa crow. The Sinaloa crow is monotypic.
A real field recording of the Sinaloa Crow. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
1 recording on this page · licensed Public Domain / CC0 ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Mexico · xeno-canto lists 46 recordings for this species in total.
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Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.