Bougainville Crow

Bougainville Crow
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Corvidae
Genus:	Corvus
Species:	C. meeki
Binomial name
Corvus meeki Rothschild, 1904

The Bougainville Crow (Corvus meeki) is a species of bird in the crow family Corvidae. It is found in on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea and the neighbouring Shortland Islands in the Solomon Islands. Within its range it is the only species of crow.

The Bougainville Crow is a heavy crow, 41 cm long, with all black plumage and a massive black bill.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest up to 1600 m.^[2] It is a common species on Bougainville, but it might be threatened in the future by habitat loss caused by logging.

References

1. ^ BirdLife International 2004. Corvus meeki. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 25 July 2007.
2. ^ BirdLife International (2008) Species factsheet: Corvus meeki. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 15 October 2008