Slender-billed crow

Slender-billed crow

Near Tomohon, Indonesia
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Corvidae
Genus:	Corvus
Species:	C. enca
Binomial name
*Corvus enca* (Horsfield, 1822)

The slender-billed crow (Corvus enca) is a Passerine bird of the family Corvidae, in the genus Corvus. The violet crow has been found to be distinct genetically and separated as Corvus violaceus.^[2] The small crow has been split as Corvus samarensis and the Palawan crow has also been split as Corvus pusillus.^[3]

Distribution and habitat[edit]

It is found throughout Maritime Southeast Asia (Brunei, Indonesia and the Philippines) and Peninsular Malaysia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical mangrove forest.

References[edit]

^ BirdLife International. 2017. Corvus enca (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T103727499A118785292. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T103727499A118785292.en. Downloaded on 23 August 2021.
^ Jønsson, Knud A.; Fabre, Pierre-Henri; Irestedt, Martin (2012). "Brains, tools, innovation and biogeography in crows and ravens". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 12: 72. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-12-72. PMC 3480872. PMID 22642364.
^ "Species Updates – IOC World Bird List". Retrieved 2021-05-29.

Extant species of family Corvidae

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Subclass: Neornithes
Superorder: Neognathae
Order: Passeriformes

Family Corvidae

Choughs

Pyrrhocorax	Alpine chough (P. graculus) Red-billed chough (P. pyrrhocorax)

Treepies

Crypsirina	Hooded treepie (C. cucullata) Black racket-tailed treepie (C. temia)
Dendrocitta	Andaman treepie (D. bayleyi) Bornean treepie (D. cinerascens) Grey treepie (D. formosae) Black-faced treepie (D. frontalis) White-bellied treepie (D. leucogastra) Sumatran treepie (D. occipitalis) Rufous treepie (D. vagabunda)
Platysmurus	Malayan black magpie (P. leucopterus) Bornean black magpie (P. aterrimus)
Temnurus	Ratchet-tailed treepie (T. temnurus)

Oriental
magpies

Cissa	Common green magpie (C. chinensis) Indochinese green magpie (C. hypoleuca) Bornean green magpie (C. jefferyi) Javan green magpie (C. thalassina)
Urocissa	Taiwan blue magpie (U. caerulea) Red-billed blue magpie (U. erythrorhyncha) Yellow-billed blue magpie (U. flavirostris) Sri Lanka blue magpie (U. ornata) White-winged magpie (U. whiteheadi)

Old World jays

Garrulus	Eurasian jay (G. glandarius) Lanceolated jay (G. lanceolatus) Lidth's jay (G. lidthi)
Podoces (Ground jays)	Xinjiang ground jay (P. biddulphi) Mongolian ground jay (P. hendersoni) Turkestan ground jay (P. panderi) Iranian ground jay (P. pleskei)
Ptilostomus	Piapiac (P. afer)

Stresemann's
bushcrow

Zavattariornis	Stresemann's bushcrow (Z. stresemanni)

Family Corvidae (continued)

Nutcrackers

Nucifraga	Spotted nutcracker (N. caryocatactes) Clark's nutcracker (N. columbiana) Kashmir nutcracker (N. multipunctata)

Holarctic
magpies

Pica	Black-billed magpie (P. hudsonia) Yellow-billed magpie (P. nuttalli) Eurasian magpie (P. pica) Oriental magpie (P. sericea) Maghreb magpie (P. mauritanica) Asir magpie (P. asirensis) Black-rumped magpie (P. bottanensis)

True crows

Corvus

Australian and Melanesian species: Little crow (C. bennetti); Australian raven (C. coronoides); Bismarck crow (C. insularis); Brown-headed crow (C. fuscicapillus); Bougainville crow (C. meeki); Little raven (C. mellori); New Caledonian crow (C. moneduloides); Torresian crow (C. orru); Forest raven (C. tasmanicus); Grey crow (C. tristis); Long-billed crow (C. validus); White-billed crow (C. woodfordi)

Pacific island species: Hawaiian crow (C. hawaiiensis); Mariana crow (C. kubaryi)

Tropical Asian species: Slender-billed crow (C. enca); Small crow (C. samarensis); Palawan crow (C. pusillus); Flores crow (C. florensis); Large-billed crow (C. macrorhynchos); Eastern jungle crow (C. levaillantii); Indian jungle crow (C. culminatus); House crow (C. splendens); Collared crow (C. torquatus); Piping crow (C. typicus); Banggai crow (C. unicolor); Violet crow (C. violaceus)

Eurasian and North African species: Mesopotamian crow (C. capellanus); Hooded crow (C. cornix); Carrion crow (C. corone); Rook (C. frugilegus); Eastern carrion crow (C. orientalis); Fan-tailed raven (C. rhipidurus); Brown-necked raven (C. ruficollis)

Holarctic species: Common raven (C. corax)

North and Central American species: American crow (C. brachyrhynchos); Chihuahuan raven (C. cryptoleucus); Tamaulipas crow (C. imparatus); Jamaican crow (C. jamaicensis); White-necked crow (C. leucognaphalus); Cuban crow (C. nasicus); Fish crow (C. ossifragus); Palm crow (C. palmarum); Sinaloan crow (C. sinaloae)

Tropical African species: White-necked raven (C. albicollis); Pied crow (C. albus); Cape crow (C. capensis); Thick-billed raven (C. crassirostris); Somali crow (C. edithae)

Jackdaws

Coloeus	Daurian jackdaw (C. dauuricus) Western jackdaw (C. monedula)

Family Corvidae (continued)

Azure-winged
magpies

Cyanopica	Iberian magpie (C. cooki) Azure-winged magpie (C. cyanus)

Grey jays

Perisoreus	Canada jay (P. canadensis) Siberian jay (P. infaustus) Sichuan jay (P. internigrans)

New World jays

Aphelocoma (Scrub jays)	California scrub jay (A. californica) Island scrub jay (A. insularis) Woodhouse's scrub jay (A. woodhouseii) Florida scrub jay (A. coerulescens) Transvolcanic jay (A. ultramarina) Unicolored jay (A. unicolor) Mexican jay (A. wollweberi)
Calocitta (Magpie-Jays)	Black-throated magpie-jay (C. colliei) White-throated Magpie-jay (C. formosa)
Cyanocitta	Blue jay (C. cristata) Steller's jay (C. stelleri)
Cyanocorax	Black-chested jay (C. affinis) Purplish-backed jay (C. beecheii) Azure jay (C. caeruleus) Cayenne jay (C. cayanus) Plush-crested jay (C. chrysops) Curl-crested jay (C. cristatellus) Purplish jay (C. cyanomelas) White-naped jay (C. cyanopogon) Tufted jay (C. dickeyi) Azure-naped jay (C. heilprini) Bushy-crested jay (C. melanocyaneus) Brown jay (C. morio) White-tailed jay (C. mystacalis) San Blas jay (C. sanblasianus) Violaceous jay (C. violaceus) Green jay (C. ynca) Yucatan jay (C. yucatanicus)
Cyanolyca	Silvery-throated jay (C. argentigula) Black-collared jay (C. armillata) Azure-hooded jay (C. cucullata) White-throated jay (C. mirabilis) Dwarf jay (C. nana) Beautiful jay (C. pulchra) Black-throated jay (C. pumilo) Turquoise jay (C. turcosa) White-collared jay (C. viridicyana)
Gymnorhinus	Pinyon jay (G. cyanocephalus)

Taxon identifiers	Wikidata: Q73826 Wikispecies: Corvus enca BirdLife: 103727499 BOLD: 119572 CoL: YNHR BOW: slbcro1 eBird: slbcro1 EoL: 917352 GBIF: 2482470 iNaturalist: 8016 IRMNG: 11009245 ITIS: 559498 IUCN: 103727499 NCBI: 1196282 Xeno-canto: Corvus-enca

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