Corvus jamaicensis
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In 3 days ~70% in a week >90%
The Jamaican crow (Corvus jamaicensis) is a comparatively small corvid (35–38 cm in length). It shares several key morphological features with two other West Indian species, the Cuban crow (Corvus nasicus) and the white-necked crow (Corvus leucognaphalus) of Hispaniola, which are very closely related to it.
The Jamaican crow, under the name "chattering crow", was described by the English naturalists John Ray in 1713 and Hans Sloane in 1725. The Irish physician Patrick Browne used the name "gabbling crow" for the species in 1756. In France the naturalists Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 and Comte de Buffon both used the name "La corneille de la Jamaique". A binomial name was not introduced until 1788 when the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin revised and expanded Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae and coined the binomial name Corvus jamaicensis. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
The overall appearance is sooty-grey, not at all glossy, like its relatives; though it does possess a similar dark grey patch of naked skin just behind the eye, and a smaller naked patch at the base of the bill. The bill itself is slate-grey and quite... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park | 🇯🇲 Jamaica |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Jamaican Crow sighting in Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park on a given day, based on 344 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 40th most-seen of the 91 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Jamaican Crow in Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park on a given day, against about 10% in May, the lowest month. June has too few records to rate.
Between 1 and 4 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Jamaican Crow sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park, in our data
Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Jamaican Crow sightings: about 40% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Jamaican Crow that you can see in Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are White-chinned Thrush (about 90%), Bananaquit (about 90%) and Orangequit (about 90%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Jamaican Crow is recorded against all the birds logged in Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park (344 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
