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American Crow

Corvus brachyrhynchos
AMCR · Corvidae · Crows, Jays, and Magpies
Urban
6,028heard

The American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) is a large passerine bird species of the family Corvidae. It is a common bird found throughout much of North America. American crows are the New World counterpart to the carrion crow and the hooded crow. Although the American crow and the hooded crow are very similar in size, structure and behavior, their calls and visual appearance are different. The American crow, nevertheless, occupies the same ecological niche that the hooded crow and carrion crow do in Eurasia. From…

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mean confidence
33–38 in wingspanestimated

Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)

American Crow
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6,028Detections
56Days heard
0.70Mean confidence
1 AugFirst heard
27 SepLast heard
11,437Stations worldwide

By hour of day

00061218

Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.

Recent days

29 Aug 27 Sep

Daily counts. Seasonal bars replace this once there is a year of records to draw them from.

Where heard

At home6,028 detections
On outings0 detections

Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.

Where it lives

Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.

Leaflet · CARTO · range polygons from BirdWeather

Recordings

Highest-confidence detections first. Confidence is a threshold, not a probability of being correct.

2026-08-05 19:40
9 s
0.98
2026-08-10 19:50
9 s
0.98
2026-09-15 19:02
9 s
0.98
2026-09-27 07:37
9 s
0.98
2026-09-21 18:26
9 s
0.98
2026-09-21 18:24
9 s
0.98
2026-09-01 18:52
9 s
0.98
2026-09-21 06:57
9 s
0.98
2026-08-25 18:19
9 s
0.98
2026-09-21 18:26
9 s
0.97
2026-09-01 18:53
9 s
0.97
2026-09-27 07:37
9 s
0.97
Station PUC-29278 on BirdWeather Data updated 27 Sep, 9:45am Archive