Corvus: A Life With Birds (ISBN 9781582434773) by Esther Woolfson is a non-fiction book about a family which adopts various corvids; a rook named Chicken, a magpie named Spike, and a crow named Ziki.
The species are the Western Jackdaw (Corvus monedula), which breeds in the British Isles and western Europe, Scandinavia, northern Asia and Northern Africa, and its eastern counterpart, the Daurian Jackdaw (Corvus dauuricus), found from eastern Europe to Japan.
Often grouped along with other crow species in the region, it differs in its voice from the Large-billed Crow found in the higher elevations of the Himalayas and the Eastern Jungle Crow (Corvus levaillantii) overlaps in the eastern part of its range.
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The Indian Jungle Crow (Corvus culminatus) is an all-black species of Jungle Crow found in the plains of India where it is very common and readily distinguished from the House Crow which has a grey neck.
Kubary discovered at least four bird species -- the Samoan Wood Rail (Gallinula pacifica), the Mariana Crow (Corvus kubaryi), the Caroline Islands Ground Dove (Gallicolumba kubaryi), and the Pohnpei Fantail (Rhipidura kubaryi) -- as well as numerous insects, among them the Paradise Birdwing (Ornithoptera paradisea).
The names Korvus and Rook'shir appear to be taken from the avian genus Corvus, to which the birds known as Rooks belong.
It may also have depended on fruit, like the New Caledonian Crow Corvus moneduloides, but it is difficult to understand why a fruit eater would have been most common in coastal forest and shrubland when fruit was distributed throughout the forest.
Trees on the moorland edges provide nesting sites for Redpoll (Acanthis flammea), buzzard (Buteo buteo) and Raven (Corvus corax).
On 23 February 1945, Corvus departed Garston near Liverpool bound for Plymouth with a cargo of 1,800 tons of coal, with Alexander Wallace as captain, carrying a crew of 22 plus a DEMS gun crew of three British Royal Navy gunners.
The Sinaloan Crow (Corvus sinaloae) appears to be genetically extremely close to this bird and can be considered the western form of it though the voice is quite different, indeed a third species, the Fish Crow (Corvus ossifragus) of the southeastern United States appears to be very closely related to them also and the three may be considered a superspecies.