General
Tamaulipas Crow: Small crow, shiny black overall with purple-tinted upperparts and duller purple to blue-green tinted underparts. Bill is small and short. Sexes are similar.
Range and Habitat
Tamaulipas Crow: This species has a very limited range. It is found only along the Gulf Coast of Mexico from the Rio Grande River Valley south to central Mexico. It is a regular visitor to extreme southern Texas. These birds prefer arid country with thickets and brush such as mesquite; also ranches and farms, as is also found along woodland streams.
Breeding and 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.
Foraging and 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.
Readily Eats
Peanuts
Vocalization
Tamaulipas Crow: Call is a throaty "craw" or "khurr", or sometimes a shrieking "creow." Also makes a low guttural croaking similar to a frog.
Similar Species
Tamaulipas Crow: Chihuahuan Raven is larger with wedge-shaped tail.