Hispaniolan palm crow
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| Hispaniolan palm crow | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Corvidae |
| Genus: | Corvus |
| Species: | C. palmarum
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| Corvus palmarum Württemberg, 1835
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The Hispaniolan palm crow (Corvus palmarum) is a relatively small
) where it was formerly very frequent, but is now reduced in population.Taxonomy
The Hispaniolan palm crow was
Despite being
Sinaloan crow (C. sinaloae) of Mexico, than the white-necked crow, which is more related to the Cuban crow (Corvus nasicus) and the Jamaican crow
(Corvus jamaicensis), the other two Caribbean corvids.
The following cladogram is based on phylogenetic study of the Corvidae by Knud Jønsson and collaborators that was published in 2012.[6]
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The species was formerly considered to be
conspecific with the Cuban palm crow
(Corvus minutus).
Habitat
The local name for the palm crow is cao in the Dominican Republic (where it is locally common, mainly in mountain pine forests and also around the area of Lake Enriquillo), which is onomatopoeic of the simple and repetitive call of this bird.
References
- . Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- ^ Württemberg, Paul Wilhelm (1835). Erste Reise nach dem nördlichen Amerika in den Jahren 1822 bis 1824 (in German). Stuttgart and Tübigen: Verlag der J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung. p. 68, footnote.
- ^ Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2023). "Crows, mudnesters, birds-of-paradise". IOC World Bird List Version 13.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
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- ^ Garrido, O.H.; Reynard, G.B.; Kirkconnell, A. (1997). "Is the palm crow, Corvus palmarum (Aves: Corvidae), a monotypic species?". Ornitologia Neotropical. 8: 15–21.
- PMID 22642364.