House crow (Indian house crow) – Corvus splendens

The Indian crow is native of southern Asia, from southern China to Pakistan and Iran. It is closely associated with human settlements and does not nest in natural environments. It has been introduced or spread ship-borne and, through port cities, independently to east Africa along the coast of the Indian Ocean, the south-east corner of the Mediterranean and, more recently, to Borneo and Florida. The species was found in Europe for the first time in 1994, in Hoek van Holland in the Netherlands, where it began to breed in 1997. The population has grown slowly but the first sightings of the species in other parts of the Netherlands, namely the Hague, were reported in 2004. A few other sightings in Europe have been reported, at least in Denmark and Ireland.

The Indian crow has never been observed in Finland. It is considered capable of becoming established, at least in the coastal regions of southern and western Europe, but probably not in northern regions, Finland, the Baltic countries or Sweden, or at least on the corresponding latitudes.