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Whenever i look up jackdaws it always says “western jackdaw”. Does this mean there’s an eastern jackdaw??? also what’s the difference? (Besides their region)

Yes, while the Western Jackdaw, sometimes just called the Jackdaw, is found in Western Europe there’s another species found in East Asia...

Daurian Jackdaw (Coloeus dauuricus), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, China

Photograph by 贡嘎山@中国野鸟图库

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Jackdaws!!

Jackdaws are two species of bird in the genus Coloeus closely related to, but generally smaller than, crows and ravens (Corvus). They have a blackish crown, wings, and tail, with the rest of their plumage being paler.

The species are the western jackdaw (Coloeus monedula), which breeds in Europe, northern Asia and Northern Africa, and its eastern counterpart, the Daurian jackdaw (Coloeus dauuricus), found from China and eastern Siberia to Japan. The eastern species is smaller than the western jackdaw, and in eastern adults the pale areas of the plumage are almost white, whereas in the western bird these areas are pale grey. The iris is pale in western jackdaw and dark in Daurian jackdaw. The two species are otherwise very similar in shape, calls, and behaviour. There is an argument for lumping the subgenus members as one species, but they do not interbreed where their ranges meet in Mongolia.

Left: Daurian Jackdaw

Right: Western Jackdaw