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Taxonomic Index
(with search function)Bird Sightings : Hebrides : Rook
Rook
Corvus frugileus
Gaelic: Ròcas
Photograph © Debbie Bozkurt
Stornoway - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
2nd March, 2007
Our Rook photographs
- Rook
- Corvus frugileus
- Gaelic: Ròcas
- WI: Uncommon resident breeder (10-99 breeding pairs) in Stornoway Castle Grounds. Otherwise uncommon winter visitor (recorded in low numbers each year)
Prominent light-coloured bare skin patch around the base of the adult rook's bill.
Loose-looking feathers on the legs looking like short baggy trousers!
"A crow in a crowd is a rook, a rook on it's own is a crow" (A Yorkshire saying)
Rook records in the Western Isles
Uncommon resident breeder (10-99 breeding pairs) in Stornoway Castle Grounds. Otherwise uncommon winter visitor (recorded in low numbers each year)
Source: Outer Hebrides Bird Report (2001)Approximately 65 nests
On the chart below the darker the shade of blue the more abundant the Rook is during a month or the more likely you are to see it.
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(Source: Outer Hebrides Birds Checklist)
Debbie's online photo album
Sources of information for the bird sightings section
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