Birds · An occasional visitor rather than a resident.

Torresian Crow

Corvus orru

First heard here 2 Oct · last heard 25 Oct · 4 days in the last year · 4 detections on record

Hear it

A clear recording song, recorded in Australia

James Lambert, xeno-canto, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Trimmed to 20 seconds.

Heard here by the park sensor, 83% match

Raw and a bit distant; the bird was somewhere in the park, not next to the microphone.

What to look for

The Torresian crow, also called the Australian crow or Papuan crow, is a passerine bird in the crow family native to the north and west of Australia and nearby islands in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. The species has a black plumage, beak and mouth with white irises. The base of the feathers on the head and neck are white. The Torresian crow is slightly larger with a more robust bill than the morphologically similar little crow.

When it has been heard

Detections per day, last 30 days. Heard on 2 of them.

Busiest day so far: Sunday 25 October, 1 detections between 7:19am and 7:19am.

Time of day

When it calls, last 30 days. Darker is busier.

Busiest around 7am. From 4 days with hourly counts.

Day	Heard	First	Last	Peak confidence
25 Oct	1	7:19am	7:19am	84%
18 Oct	1	7:12am	7:12am	83%
5 Oct	1	5:28pm	5:28pm	76%
2 Oct	1	11:18am	11:18am	74%

Detections are automatic and can be wrong.