American Crow
The American Crow is a distinctive bird with iridescent black feathers all over. Its legs, feet and bill are also black. Males tend to be larger than females.
The most usual call is a loud, short, and rapid caaw-caaw-caaw. Usually, the birds thrust their heads up and down as they utter this call. American Crows can also produce a wide variety of sounds and sometimes mimic noises made by other animals, including other birds.
Most wild American Crows live for about 7–8 years. Captive birds are known to have lived up to 30 years.
The range of the American Crow extends from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean in Canada, on the French islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, south through the United States, and into northern Mexico. Virtually all types of country from wilderness, farmland, parks, open woodland to towns and major cities are inhabited; it is absent only from Pacific temperate rain forests and tundra habitat where it is replaced by the Raven.
Many times these American Crows perch atop a large oak tree a hundred yards from my house by the creek and you can hear them calling very loudly to the top of their lungs!
When I was shooting the pictures displayed on this post, there was a Northern Mockingbird dive-attacking the Crow continuously. Brave bird!
The American Crow is upset because there’s a N. Mockingbird attacking him!
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Text and photographs © H.J. Ruiz – Avian 101
H.J. Ruiz - Avian101 
Thanks for the tribute to my best wild friends. They kept pressuring me to say “my favorite birds” but I resisted, recognizing that they already have me well trained enough!
Lisa, let’s put it this way: You love birds. There’s no ugly or pretty when you love animals of a kind, you love them all! You my feel a bit fondness about some of them, that’s natural and human but there are no exclusions! 🙂
Very similar to our carrion crow over in the UK in looks, handsome birds indeed
They are related somehow! Thank you for your observation! 🙂
I must learn to appreciate these birds more since they are everywhere!!!
They do a great service to the Ecology too! Thanks for the comment Julie!:)