house crow

House Crow is a slender, blackish medium-sized crow, with long bill. Head, nape and breast sides are greyish, contrasting with the black body plumage. Forehead, chin and throat are black. Underparts are paler grey. The black bill is longer than in other crows. Eyes are brown. Long legs and feet are black.

Around human habitation and cultivation, House Crow is often seen near towns and villages, mainly with harbour. It needs some trees too. This species is common in mangroves, coconut groves and plantations, particularly banyan trees.

House Crow is omnivorous. It feeds on rubbish, left-overs, debris, and in sewage. It also consumes lizards, fish, frogs, insects, crabs, nectar, fruits and cereal seeds, but chicks, eggs and small mammals too.

Main call is a flat, dry kaaa-kaaa weaker than that of large-billed Crow.

The house crow (Corvus splendens) also known as the Indian greynecked Ceylon or Colombo crow is a common bird of the crow family that is of Asian origin but now found in many parts of the world where they arrived assisted by shipping. It is between the jackdaw and the carrion crow in size (40 cm (16 in) in length) but is slimmer than either. The forehead crown throat and upper breast are a richly glossed black whilst the neck and breast are a lighter grey-brown in colour. The wings tail and legs are black. There are regional variations in the thickness of the bill and the depth of colour in areas of the plumage.