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Northern Raven (Common Raven) - Corvus corax - Raaf
North- and Central-America, Europe, North-Africa and Asia.
The following 11 subspecies are being recognized:
Corvus corax principalis - Islands in Bering Sea, Alaska, Canada and northern USA;
Corvus corax sinuatis - Southwest-Canada through Westcentral-USA to Mexico and Nicaragua;
Corvus corax clarionensis - Southwest-USA and Northwest-Mexico;
Corvus corax varius - Iceland and Faeroer Islands;
Corvus corax corax - Northwest-Europe through Central-Europe to Central-Siberia;
Corvus corax hispanus - Iberian Peninsula, Italy and Mediterranean Islands;
Corvus corax laurencei - Greece, Cyprus and Turkey to West-China and India;
Corvus corax tingitanus - North-Africa;
Corvus corax canariensis - Canary Islands;
Corvus corax tibetanus - Mountains of Central-Asia and the Himalayas;
Corvus corax kamtschaticus - West-Mongolia, East-Siberia, Northeast-China, North-Japan and nearby islands.
Of this species there are also Zoo Photo's available.