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Carrion Crow

Corvus corone

1,495,275Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
127Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan140,753
Feb111,167
Mar140,345
Apr162,797
May154,432
Jun117,011
Jul103,552
Aug110,513
Sep114,172
Oct125,586
Nov105,338
Dec106,200

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England63,715
2Norfolk England50,790
3South Ayrshire Scotland49,600
4Suffolk England43,972
5Surrey England43,896
6Kent England41,933
7Oxfordshire England30,792
8Cornwall England30,551
9East Riding of Yorkshire England28,701
10Essex England25,230
11Dorset England24,571
12Lincolnshire England23,705
13North Yorkshire England20,675
14Devon England19,920
15Nottinghamshire England17,660
1,274,452 England164,706 Scotland54,171 Wales1,710 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 127 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,495,275
Peak month
April
Counties with records
127
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Corvus corone
Also known as
Carrion / Hooded Crow
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
213,001
Conservation designations
Birds Directive, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Corvidae
Genus
Corvus
Name with authority
Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
61

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q26198 · GBIF 9409796