Cyanocitta

Genus of birds

Cyanocitta

C. cristata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Aves
Order:  | Passeriformes
Family:  | Corvidae
Genus:  | Cyanocitta
Strickland, 1845
Type species
Corvus cristatus

Linnaeus, 1758

Species

* Cyanocitta cristata
* Cyanocitta stelleri

Distribution of the Cyanocitta jays in North America. Red: Steller's Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri), black: Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata). Dotted line: irregular wintering, dashed line: irregular breeding.

Cyanocitta is a genus of birds in the family Corvidae, a family which contains the crows, jays and magpies. Established by Hugh Edwin Strickland in 1845, it contains the following species:[1]

Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution

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| Cyanocitta cristata | Blue jay | eastern and central United States, Newfoundland, Canada[2]
| Cyanocitta stelleri | Steller's jay | west of the Rocky Mountains

The name Cyanocitta is a combination of the Greek words kuanos, meaning "dark blue", and kitta, meaning "jay".[3]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "ITIS Report: Cyanocitta". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
2. ^ Smith, Kimberley G.; Tarvin, Kevin A.; Woolfenden, Glen E. (2013-12-04). Poole, A. F. (ed.). "Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)". The Birds of North America Online. Ithaca, New York: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. doi:10.2173/bna.469. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
3. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Names. London, UK: Christopher Helm. p. 126. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.

## External links[edit]

* Media related to Cyanocitta at Wikimedia Commons
* Data related to Cyanocitta at Wikispecies

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Extant species of family Corvidae

* Kingdom: Animalia
* Phylum: Chordata
* Class: Aves
* Subclass: Neornithes
* Superorder: Neognathae
* Order: Passeriformes

Family Corvidae

| Choughs|

| Pyrrhocorax|

* Alpine chough (P. graculus)
* Red-billed chough (P. pyrrhocorax)

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Treepies|

| Crypsirina|

* Hooded treepie (C. cucullata)
* Black racket-tailed treepie (C. temia)

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Dendrocitta|

* Andaman treepie (D. bayleyi)
* Bornean treepie (D. cinerascens)
* Grey treepie (D. formosae)
* Black-faced treepie (D. frontalis)
* White-bellied treepie (D. leucogastra)
* Sumatran treepie (D. occipitalis)
* Rufous treepie (D. vagabunda)

Platysmurus|

* Malayan black magpie (P. leucopterus)
* Bornean black magpie (P. aterrimus)

Temnurus|

* Ratchet-tailed treepie (T. temnurus)

Oriental
magpies|

| Cissa|

* Common green magpie (C. chinensis)
* Indochinese green magpie (C. hypoleuca)
* Bornean green magpie (C. jefferyi)
* Javan green magpie (C. thalassina)

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Urocissa|

* Taiwan blue magpie (U. caerulea)
* Red-billed blue magpie (U. erythrorhyncha)
* Yellow-billed blue magpie (U. flavirostris)
* Sri Lanka blue magpie (U. ornata)
* White-winged magpie (U. whiteheadi)

Old World jays|

| Garrulus|

* Eurasian jay (G. glandarius)
* Lanceolated jay (G. lanceolatus)
* Lidth's jay (G. lidthi)

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Podoces
(Ground jays)|

* Xinjiang ground jay (P. biddulphi)
* Mongolian ground jay (P. hendersoni)
* Turkestan ground jay (P. panderi)
* Iranian ground jay (P. pleskei)

Ptilostomus|

* Piapiac (P. afer)

Stresemann's
bushcrow|

| Zavattariornis|

* Stresemann's bushcrow (Z. stresemanni)

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Family Corvidae (continued)

| Nutcrackers|

| Nucifraga|

* Spotted nutcracker (N. caryocatactes)
* Clark's nutcracker (N. columbiana)
* Kashmir nutcracker (N. multipunctata)

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Holarctic
magpies|

| Pica|

* Black-billed magpie (P. hudsonia)
* Yellow-billed magpie (P. nuttalli)
* Eurasian magpie (P. pica)
* Oriental magpie (P. sericea)
* Maghreb magpie (P. mauritanica)
* Asir magpie (P. asirensis)
* Black-rumped magpie (P. bottanensis)

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True crows|

| Corvus|

Australian and Melanesian species
Little crow (C. bennetti)
Australian raven (C. coronoides)
Bismarck crow (C. insularis)
Brown-headed crow (C. fuscicapillus)
Bougainville crow (C. meeki)
Little raven (C. mellori)
New Caledonian crow (C. moneduloides)
Torresian crow (C. orru)
Forest raven (C. tasmanicus)
Grey crow (C. tristis)
Long-billed crow (C. validus)
White-billed crow (C. woodfordi)

Pacific island species
Hawaiian crow (C. hawaiiensis)
Mariana crow (C. kubaryi)

Tropical Asian species
Slender-billed crow (C. enca)
Small crow (C. samarensis)
Palawan crow (C. pusillus)
Flores crow (C. florensis)
Large-billed crow (C. macrorhynchos)
Eastern jungle crow (C. levaillantii)
Indian jungle crow (C. culminatus)
House crow (C. splendens)
Collared crow (C. torquatus)
Piping crow (C. typicus)
Banggai crow (C. unicolor)
Violet crow (C. violaceus)

Eurasian and North African species
Mesopotamian crow (C. capellanus)
Hooded crow (C. cornix)
Carrion crow (C. corone)
Rook (C. frugilegus)
Eastern carrion crow (C. orientalis)
Fan-tailed raven (C. rhipidurus)
Brown-necked raven (C. ruficollis)

Holarctic species
Common raven (C. corax)

North and Central American species
American crow (C. brachyrhynchos)
Chihuahuan raven (C. cryptoleucus)
Tamaulipas crow (C. imparatus)
Jamaican crow (C. jamaicensis)
White-necked crow (C. leucognaphalus)
Cuban crow (C. nasicus)
Fish crow (C. ossifragus)
Palm crow (C. palmarum)
Sinaloan crow (C. sinaloae)

Tropical African species
White-necked raven (C. albicollis)
Pied crow (C. albus)
Cape crow (C. capensis)
Thick-billed raven (C. crassirostris)
Somali crow (C. edithae)

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Jackdaws|

| Coloeus|

* Daurian jackdaw (C. dauuricus)
* Western jackdaw (C. monedula)

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Family Corvidae (continued)

| Azure-winged
magpies|

| Cyanopica|

* Iberian magpie (C. cooki)
* Azure-winged magpie (C. cyanus)

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Grey jays|

| Perisoreus|

* Canada jay (P. canadensis)
* Siberian jay (P. infaustus)
* Sichuan jay (P. internigrans)

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New World jays|

| Aphelocoma
(Scrub jays)|

* California scrub jay (A. californica)
* Island scrub jay (A. insularis)
* Woodhouse's scrub jay (A. woodhouseii)
* Florida scrub jay (A. coerulescens)
* Transvolcanic jay (A. ultramarina)
* Unicolored jay (A. unicolor)
* Mexican jay (A. wollweberi)

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Calocitta
(Magpie-Jays)|

* Black-throated magpie-jay (C. colliei)
* White-throated Magpie-jay (C. formosa)

Cyanocitta|

* Blue jay (C. cristata)
* Steller's jay (C. stelleri)

Cyanocorax|

* Black-chested jay (C. affinis)
* Purplish-backed jay (C. beecheii)
* Azure jay (C. caeruleus)
* Cayenne jay (C. cayanus)
* Plush-crested jay (C. chrysops)
* Curl-crested jay (C. cristatellus)
* Purplish jay (C. cyanomelas)
* White-naped jay (C. cyanopogon)
* Tufted jay (C. dickeyi)
* Azure-naped jay (C. heilprini)
* Bushy-crested jay (C. melanocyaneus)
* Brown jay (C. morio)
* White-tailed jay (C. mystacalis)
* San Blas jay (C. sanblasianus)
* Violaceous jay (C. violaceus)
* Green jay (C. ynca)
* Yucatan jay (C. yucatanicus)

Cyanolyca|

* Silvery-throated jay (C. argentigula)
* Black-collared jay (C. armillata)
* Azure-hooded jay (C. cucullata)
* White-throated jay (C. mirabilis)
* Dwarf jay (C. nana)
* Beautiful jay (C. pulchra)
* Black-throated jay (C. pumilo)
* Turquoise jay (C. turcosa)
* White-collared jay (C. viridicyana)

Gymnorhinus|

* Pinyon jay (G. cyanocephalus)

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q826027
* Wikispecies: Cyanocitta
* ADW: Cyanocitta
* BOLD: 4688
* CoL: 3XNL
* EPPO: 1CYNCG
* Fossilworks: 129836
* GBIF: 2482592
* iNaturalist: 8228
* IRMNG: 1301526
* ITIS: 179679
* NBN: NHMSYS0020930130
* NCBI: 28726

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