A crow of South Asian settlements and farmland that feeds on a wide range of animal and plant foods, including human food scraps.
It is slender, with a black head and glossy black back and wings, while the neck collar is gray. The sides of the head and breast vary among races.
It eats small animals, invertebrates, fruit, and crops. In towns it scavenges human food scraps and may nest on wires or in trees.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.