As for those pesky crows, well there's the ordinary black jobbie, Corvus corone. And then there's the hoodie. What of the hoodie? Well, I have a good few old natural history books that regard the hooded crow as a geographical race of the black jobbie. After all, it interbreeds very successfully with the common crow. In more recent years, the hoodie has managed to attain specieshood, as Corvus cornix. The great thing about the hoodie is that it isn't remotely what you might call black. Isn't science fun!