Hybrid hooded crow (1 Viewer)

[Jen22]

I have a regular walk and feed the corvids and have come across a mother crow with youngster which looks like a hybrid hooded crow. I’ve attached video (sorry for movement, I was trying to keep an eye on my 2 dogs behind me). I’ve not seen any hooded crows in the area oddly enough. I’m in Beith, North Ayrshire.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1065386538325045

View attachment 62f6019347fdbb7f12a121554c5a68e4.mp4

 

[Andrew Whitehouse]

Welcome to BirdForum. Your bird looks close to a pure Hooded Crow but it can be hard to be sure, as some hybrids are very Hooded-like. Such birds are quite frequent outside of the core range of Hooded. The following is very helpful for illustrating the range of hybrids:

Hoodie / Carrion Crow hybrid identification

There is a link below to the paper published in the Orkney Bird Report 2013. This is very much a work in progress and I am currently (time ...

literateherringthisway.blogspot.com

 

[Jen22]

Welcome to BirdForum. Your bird looks close to a pure Hooded Crow but it can be hard to be sure, as some hybrids are very Hooded-like. Such birds are quite frequent outside of the core range of Hooded. The following is very helpful for illustrating the range of hybrids:

Hoodie / Carrion Crow hybrid identification

There is a link below to the paper published in the Orkney Bird Report 2013. This is very much a work in progress and I am currently (time ...

literateherringthisway.blogspot.com

Thanks Andrew, I read this attachment before I came on here. Like you, it looks pure, and then wondered if it could’ve been an adoption pact perhaps. Strange looking thing, even reminded me initially of the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz when I first saw the bird when it was younger. Seems to have grown into itself now.