🐾 Common Raven

Corvus corax · wildlife atlas entry

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The common raven ( Corvus corax ), also known as the northern raven , is a large all-black passerine bird. Found across the Northern Hemisphere, it is the most widely distributed of all corvids. There are at least eight subspecies with little variation in appearance, although recent research has demonstrated significant genetic differences among populations from various regions. It is one of the two largest corvids, alongside the thick-billed raven, and is possibly the heaviest passerine bird; at maturity,... Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Common Raven — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) arbyreed, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) · cc-by-nc-sa

Record card

Scientific name	Corvus corax
Rank	species
Community observations	195,621 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Animalia › phylum Chordata › class Aves › order Passeriformes › family Corvidae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

Common Raven photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Октябрьский р-н, Екатеринбург, Свердловская обл., Россия
(c) Anastasia Stepanishcheva, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Common Raven photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-21 · Лаклы, Респ. Башкортостан, Россия, 452498
(c) Полина Полежанкина, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

Common Raven photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Regstrup
(c) madshollensen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Common Raven photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-19 · Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, USA
(c) Wendy Feltham, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Common Raven photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-02-28 · Downsview, North York, ON, Canada
(c) Steven McClellan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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