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Rook

Corvus frugilegus

Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Crows, Jays, and Magpies
Rook, photographed by Hobbyfotowiki

Photo: Hobbyfotowiki · Wikimedia · CC0 1.0 (licence)

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About the Rook

Large, glossy black crow. Adult is easily passed off as another crow species unless you see the diagnostic pale patch at the base of the bill. Juvenile lacks a pale bill base and is very similar to Carrion Crow, but bill is a little more tapered; pale bill base develops late in its first winter. Inhabits farmland and other semiopen areas with hedges and groups of tall trees, where nests in rookeries. Forages on ground, usually in flocks, and associates readily with crows and jackdaws. Rook calls are higher pitched and less rolling than other crow calls.

Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made

Where it has been recorded

Recorded in 78 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.

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