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Corvus frugilegus Dartmoor, Devon, England 8🐦‍⬛

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SpeciesPasseriformesCorvidae
Birds

🐦‍⬛Rook

Corvus frugilegus Linnaeus, 1758

The rook is a member of the family Corvidae in the passerine order of birds. It is found in the Palearctic, its range extending from Scandinavia and western Europe to eastern Siberia. It is a large, gregarious, black-feathered bird, distinguished from similar species by the whitish featherless area on the face. Rooks nest collectively in the tops of tall trees, often close to farms or villages; the groups of nests are known as rookeries.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.45 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
24 years
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Everything we know about the Rook

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.45 kg
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Male489 kgWikidataQ25386
  • Female418 kgWikidataQ25386

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  • 0.45 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.17 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.31 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.06 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.06 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
24 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Omnivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Grassland
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.5 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPasseriformes
  5. ›familyCorvidae
  6. ›genusCorvus
  7. ›speciesCorvus frugilegus
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  4. genusCorvus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  11. genusCorvus
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Closest relative on this site
🐦‍⬛ Northern Raven — last shared an ancestor ≈ 6.1 million years ago.
In other languages
råka (sv), Saatkrähe (de), грач (ru), Roek (nl), graula (ca), havran polní (cs) … and 27 more languages
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Corvus frugilegus Dartmoor, Devon, England 8A Rook at Lossiemouth geograph.org.uk 1441948Coirbå å blanc betch
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