WoRMS taxon details
Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, 1822
AphiaID: 159388
AphiaID: 159388
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Passeriformes (Order) > Corvidae (Family) > Corvus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Corvus Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: Banks, R.C., R.W. McDiarmid, and A.L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication No. 166. 79 p. [details] basis of record: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [details] basis of record: Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station., available online at http://www.gmwsrs.org/main.htm [details] basis of record: Peterson, R.T. and V.M. Peterson. 2002. A field guide to the birds of eastern and central North America. Fifth Edition. Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York. 427 p. [details] basis of record: Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 p. [details] basis of record: Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 p. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | |||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (268 publications) To GenBank (80 nucleotides; 38 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: Length: 17 1/2" (45 cm) [details] Distribution: North America [details] Reproduction: found all across Canada from Newfoundland to eastern British Columbia and south to Florida and northern Mexico. Nests are usually placed in a tree either coniferous or deciduous but in treeless areas it may be placed on the ground (Tantramar marsh as for example). Prefers to nest in thickets and scattered trees rather than in deep forests. Eggs are laid between mid April and early June. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159388 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, 1822. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159388 on 2013-05-18 | |||||||||||||||||
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