Back Swartkraai Afrikaans كيب كرو ARZ Corvus capensis AST Corvus capensis Bulgarian Cornella del Cap Catalan Corvus capensis CEB Brân y Penrhyn Welsh Kabokorvo Esperanto Corvus capensis Spanish Corvus capensis Basque
| Cape crow | |
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| Calls recorded in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Corvidae |
| Genus: | Corvus |
| Species: | C. capensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Corvus capensis Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823
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The Cape crow or black crow (Corvus capensis) is slightly larger (48–50 cm in length) than the carrion crow and is completely black with a slight gloss of purple in its feathers. It also has proportionately longer legs, wings, and tail, and has a much longer, slimmer bill that seems to be adapted for probing into the ground for invertebrates. The head feathers have a coppery-purple gloss and the throat feathers are quite long and fluffed out in some calls and displays.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Corvus capensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22705978A94044487. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22705978A94044487.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
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