Tamaulipas Crow
Tamaulipas Crow: Small crow, shiny black overall with purple-tinted upperparts and duller purple to blue-green tinted underparts. Bill is small and short. Feeds on grains, fruits, insects, carrion, refuse, and eggs and young of other birds. Rapid direct flight with steady wing beats.
● Song:
"craw", "khurr", "creow"
● Foraging & Feeding:
Tamaulipas Crow: Eats insects, grains, carrion, refuse, eggs and young of other birds, and some fruits. Walks and hops on the ground as it forages.
● Breeding & nesting:
Tamaulipas Crow: Four to five blue to blue-gray eggs with brown or olive buff streaks are laid in a nest made of sticks and plant fibers, lined with softer materials, and built in a tree. Incubation ranges from 17 to 18 days and is carried out by the female.
● Similar species:
Tamaulipas Crow: Chihuahuan Raven is larger with wedge-shaped tail. American Crow is slightly larger, but best distinguished by voice. Great-tailed Grackle has white yellow eyes, longer keel-shaped tail, and purple sheen.