Cyanolyca
| Cyanolyca | |
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| Cyanolyca turcosa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Corvidae |
| Genus: | Cyanolyca Cabanis, 1851 |
| Species | |
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Cyanolyca is a genus of small jays found in humid highland forests in southern Mexico, Central America and the Andes in South America. All are largely blue and have a black mask. They also possess black bills and legs and are skulking birds. They frequently join mixed-species flocks of birds.[1]
Species
- Black-collared jay, Cyanolyca armillata
- Turquoise jay, Cyanolyca turcosa
- White-collared jay, Cyanolyca viridicyana
- Azure-hooded jay, Cyanolyca cucullata
- Beautiful jay, Cyanolyca pulchra
- Black-throated jay, Cyanolyca pumilo
- Dwarf jay, Cyanolyca nanus
- White-throated jay, Cyanolyca mirabilis
- Silvery-throated jay, Cyanolyca argentigula
References
- ↑ Howell, Steve N.G.; Sophie Webb (1995). A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 541–542. ISBN 0-19-854012-4.
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