The American Crow

Common Name: American Crow

Scientific Name: Corvus brachyrhynchos

Habitat: American Crows are common birds of fields, open woodlands, and forests. They thrive around people, and you’ll often find them in agricultural fields, lawns, parking lots, athletic fields, roadsides, towns, and city garbage dumps.

Range: American Crows live in The United States in its entirety

Interesting Fact: American Crows congregate in large numbers in winter to sleep in communal roosts. These roosts can be of a few hundred up to two million crows. Some roosts have been forming in the same general area for well over 100 years. In the last few decades some of these roosts have moved into urban areas where the noise and mess cause conflicts with people.

Source: Cornell, University (2009). American Crow. Retrieved April 17, 2009, from All About Birds Web site: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Crow/id