This glossy all-black crow has a heavy black bill but without an arching culmen (upper edge of the mandible) and has a fine tip.
The feathers have a purple gloss throughout.
The tail of the Indian jungle crow is rounded and the legs and feet are stout.
The base of the nape feathers is dusky.
The Himalayan japonensis (in this sense including western intermedius and eastern tibetosinensis) has a slightly wedge-shaped tail and a voice is a guttural and grating graak (intermedius) or a hoarse kyarrh (tibetosinensis).
The calls of the Indian jungle crow are not unlike that of the house crow, but are harsher.
In Sri Lanka, the house crow lacks the light grey neck, but the neck is slimmer than in the jungle crow.
The sexes are indistinguishable.
This glossy all-black crow has a heavy black bill but without an arching culmen (upper edge of the mandible) and has a fine tip. The feathers have a purple gloss throughout. The tail of the Indian jungle crow is rounded and the legs and feet are stout. The base of the nape feathers is dusky. The Himalayan japonensis (in this sense including western intermedius and eastern tibetosinensis) has a slightly wedge-shaped tail and a voice is a guttural and grating graak (intermedius) or a hoarse kyarrh (tibetosinensis). The calls of the Indian jungle crow are not unlike that of the house crow, but are harsher. In Sri Lanka, the house crow lacks the light grey neck, but the neck is slimmer than in the jungle crow. The sexes are indistinguishable.
Indian jungle crow