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Cyanolyca

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Cyanolyca

Cyanolyca turcosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Corvidae
Genus:	Cyanolyca Cabanis, 1851
Type species
Cyanocorax armillatus^[1] Gray, 1845
Species
9, see text

Cyanolyca is a genus of small jays found in humid highland forests in southern Mexico, Central America and the AndesinSouth 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.^[2]

Species[edit]

Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
Cyanolyca armillata	Black-collared jay	Andean forests in Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela
Cyanolyca turcosa	Turquoise jay	southern Colombia, Ecuador, and northern Peru
Cyanolyca viridicyanus	White-collared jay	Peru and Bolivia
Cyanolyca cucullata	Azure-hooded jay	Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, southeastern Mexico, and western Panama
Cyanolyca pulchra	Beautiful jay	Colombia and Ecuador
Cyanolyca pumilo	Black-throated jay	Chiapas, Guatemala and Honduras
Cyanolyca nanus	Dwarf jay	Mexico
Cyanolyca mirabilis	White-throated jay	Mexico
Cyanolyca argentigula	Silvery-throated jay	Costa Rica and Panama

References[edit]

^ "Corvidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.

^ 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.

External links[edit]

Media related to Cyanolyca at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Cyanolyca at Wikispecies

Extant species of family Corvidae

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

Family Corvidae

Choughs

Pyrrhocorax

Treepies

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

Urocissa

Old World jays

Garrulus

Podoces
(Ground jays)

Ptilostomus

Piapiac (P. afer)

Stresemann's
bushcrow

Zavattariornis

Stresemann's bushcrow (Z. stresemanni)

Family Corvidae (continued)

Nutcrackers

Nucifraga

Holarctic
magpies

Pica

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 palm crow (C. minutus); Cuban crow (C. nasicus); Fish crow (C. ossifragus); Hispaniolan 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)

Jackdaws

Coloeus

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

Family Corvidae (continued)

Azure-winged
magpies

Cyanopica

Grey jays

Perisoreus

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)
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)

Genera of corvides and their extinct allies

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Passeriformes
Suborder: Passeri
Infraorder: Corvides

Corvides

Campephagidae	Campephaga Campochaera Ceblepyris Celebesica Coracina Cyanograucalus Edolisoma Lalage Lobotos Malindangia Pericrocotus
Cinclosomatidae	Cinclosoma Ptilorrhoa
Eulacestomatidae	Eulacestoma
Falcunculidae	Falcunculus
Mohouidae	Mohoua
Neosittidae	Daphoenositta
Oreoicidae	Aleadryas Oreoica Ornorectes
Oriolidae	†Longmornis Oriolus Pitohui Sphecotheres †Turnagra
Pachycephalidae	Colluricincla Coracornis Melanorectes Pachycephala Pseudorectes
Paramythiidae	Oreocharis Paramythia
Psophodidae	Androphobus Psophodes
Malaconotoidea	See below ↓
Corvoidea	See below ↓