Hooded Crow

Hooded Crow

Corvus cornix

Silhouette: Peileppe · PhyloPic

Daily sighting probability ~50% · Likely
at Fertő-Hanság National Park

In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%

606 Verified sightings at Fertő-Hanság National Park From 2019 to 2026
5,824 In all 13 parks
January Best month
☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted

About the Hooded Crow

The hooded crow (Corvus corone cornix), also colloquially called just hoodie, is a Eurasian bird subspecies of the carrion crow (Corvus corone) in the genus Corvus. Widely distributed, it is found across Northern, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, as well as parts of the Middle East. It is an ashy-grey bird with black head, throat, wings, tail, and thigh feathers, as well as a black bill, eyes, and feet. Like other corvids, it is an omnivorous and opportunistic forager and feeder.

In 2002, the hooded crow was separated from the carrion crow and classified as its own species by the British Ornithologists' Union. However, in 2025, the new global AviBase re-classified the hooded and carrion crows as the same species, with the species divided into six subspecies, of which four are 'hooded' grey-and-black, and two are all-black.

The hooded crow was one of the many species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae; he gave it the binomial name Corvus cornix. Linnaeus specified the type locality as "Europa", but this was restricted to Sweden by the German ornithologist Ernst Hartert in 1903. The genus name Corvus is Latin for... Wikipedia →

Sounds

Call0:35

Italy · 2026

© Francesco Sottile · XC1180273 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Recording0:05

Lithuania · 2025

© Andrejus Gaidamavičius · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0

Recording0:07

Italy · 2024

© roby · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Gauja National Park 🇱🇻 Latvia
~90%
2 Kiskunság National Park 🇭🇺 Hungary
~80%
3 Biebrza National Park 🇵🇱 Poland
~60%
4 Hortobágy National Park 🇭🇺 Hungary
~60%
5 Fertő-Hanság National Park 🇭🇺 Hungary
~50%
6 Triglav National Park 🇸🇮 Slovenia
~40%
7 Vatnajokull National Park 🇮🇸 Iceland
~20%
8 Plitvice Lakes National Park 🇭🇷 Croatia
~20%
9 Wadden Sea National Park 🇩🇪 Germany
~10%
10 Mercantour National Park 🇫🇷 France
~10%
11 Tatra National Park 🇸🇰 Slovakia
<5%
12 Białowieża National Park 🇵🇱 Poland
<5%
13 Cairngorms National Park 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
<5%

Cities Where Found

# City Country Daily sighting probability
1 Jerusalem 🇮🇱 Israel
>90%
2 Ramallah 🇵🇸 Palestine
>90%
3 Tehran 🇮🇷 Iran
>90%
4 Yerevan 🇦🇲 Armenia
>90%
5 Rome 🇮🇹 Italy
>90%
6 Milan 🇮🇹 Italy
>90%
7 Yekaterinburg 🇷🇺 Russia
>90%
8 Belgrade 🇷🇸 Serbia
~90%
9 Kharkiv 🇺🇦 Ukraine
~90%
10 Antalya 🇹🇷 Turkey
~90%

Zoos & Centres Where Found

# Zoo / Centre Country
1 Kaliningrad Zoo 🇷🇺 Russia In captivity
2 bioparco 🇮🇹 Italy In captivity

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Hooded Crow in Fertő-Hanság National Park?

Likely

About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Hooded Crow sighting in Fertő-Hanság National Park on a given day, based on 606 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 12th most-seen of the 207 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Hooded Crow in Fertő-Hanság National Park?

January

In that month about 70% of wildlife watchers report a Hooded Crow in Fertő-Hanság National Park on a given day, against about 40% in June and September, the lowest months.

What time of day is best to see a Hooded Crow?

Between 11 am and 2 pm

Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Hooded 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.

Which relatives of the Hooded Crow live in Fertő-Hanság National Park?

Same genus: Corvus

The closest relatives of the Hooded Crow that you can see in Fertő-Hanság National Park (genus Corvus, Crows and Ravens) are Common Raven (about 20%), Rook (about 20%) and Carrion Crow (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.

Where does the Hooded Crow sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Hooded Crow is recorded against all the birds logged in Fertő-Hanság National Park (606 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.

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