Aves - Passeriformes - Corvidae
Parent taxon: Passeriformes according to J. F. Clements et al. 2017
See also Baird 1992, Carroll 1988, Guthrie 1992, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Lambrecht 1933, Livezey and Zusi 2007, Olson and James 1982, Olson and Rasmussen 2001, Parmalee 1992, Wetmore 1940 and Wetmore 1956
Sister taxa: Acanthisittidae, Acanthizidae, Acrocephalidae, Alaudidae, Artamidae, Atrichornithidae, Bernieridae, Bombycillidae, Calcariidae, Callaeidae, Calyptophilidae, Campephagidae, Cardinalidae, Certhiidae, Cinclidae, Cinclosomatidae, Climacteridae, Coerebidae, Corvitalusoides, Cracticidae, Dasyornithidae, Dicaeidae, Dulidae, Emberizidae, Eopsaltriidae, Estrildidae, Eurylaimidae, Formicaroidae, Fringillidae, Fringilloidae, Furnariidae, Hirundinidae, Icteridae, Laniidae, Locustellidae, Macrosphenidae, Maluridae, Meliphagidae, Menurae, Mimidae, Mohoidae, Mohouidae, Monarchidae, Motacillidae, Muscicapidae, Nectariniidae, Oriolidae, Orthonychidae, Oscines, Pachycephalidae, Paradisaeidae, Paridae, Parulidae, Passerellidae, Passeres, Passeridae, Petroicidae, Phaenicophilidae, Phylloscopidae, Pipridae, Ploceidae, Polioptilidae, Prunellidae, Psophodidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Pycnonotidae, Rhinocryptidae, Rhipiduridae, Scotocercidae, Scytalopidae, Sittidae, Spindalidae, Sturnidae, Sylviidae, Thamnophilidae, Thraupidae, Tichodromidae, Tityridae, Troglodytidae, Turdidae, Tyrannidae, Vangidae, Vireonidae, Wieslochia, Winnicavis, Yunnanus, Zosteropidae
Subtaxa: Aphelocoma Corvinae Corvus Cyanocitta Cyanopica Garrulinae Garrulus Gymnorhinus Miocitta Miocorvus Nucifraga Palaeocorax Perisoreus Pica Protocitta Pyrrhocorax
Type: Corvus
Ecology: volant omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (5 collections), the Bahamas (6), Canada (5: Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec), Cayman Islands (2), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Egypt (2), Finland (1), France (7), Gibraltar (3), Greece (20), Greenland (1), Hungary (3), Indonesia (3), Italy (21), Japan (4), Jordan (1), Madagascar (2), Monaco (1), New Zealand (10), Papua New Guinea (1), Portugal (1), Puerto Rico (1), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (6), South Africa (1), Spain (28), Sudan (2), the United Kingdom (19), United States (72: Alabama, Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming)
• Blancan of United States (1: Texas)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (2), Italy (1), Spain (1)
• Pliocene of United States (1: North Carolina)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Kansas)
• Miocene of Hungary (1), Italy (1), United States (1: Colorado)
• Neogene of United States (1: Arizona)
Total: 244 collections including 456 occurrences