Tag: Hooded Crow

Pair composition and reproductive success across a hybrid zone of carrion crows and hooded crows

Hooded Crow (Corvus corone cornix) Science Article 1 abstract The Carrion Crow (Corvus corone corone) and the Hooded Crow (C. corone cornix) have parapatric ranges in Europe with narrow areas of hybridization. Reproductive biology of populations of Carrion and Hooded crows and hybrids is described for four areas in northern Italy. Nonrandom mating was observed […]

Habitat selection of Hooded and Carrion Crows in the alpine hybrid zone

Hooded Crow (Corvus corone cornix) Science Article 3 abstract Habitat selection of co-existing Hooded Crows Corvus corone cornix and Carrion Crows C. c. corone was studied in the Susa valley, an alpine valley in the Iitalian hybrid zone. Foraging habitat use by the two races was not significantly different during the autumn-winter whereas it was […]

Breeding biology of the Hooded Crow Corvus corone cornix in Warta river valley (W Poland)

Hooded Crow (Corvus corone cornix) Science Article 2 abstract The study area (16 km2) in ‘Ujscie Warty’ National Park, W Poland-was the valley of a lowland river at its confluence with the River Odra, covered by a mosaic of grassy vegetation and willow scrub. 111 breeding attempts were recorded during 2000-2002. The mean nest density […]