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The black-throated magpie-jay was formally described in 1829 by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors from a specimen collected at San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico.The specimen had been obtained by members of an expedition to explore the western coast of North America captained by Frederick William Beechey on HMS Blossom.
Black-throated magpie-jay: west Mexico Cyanocorax formosus: White-throated magpie-jay: southwest Mexico to Costa Rica C.morio lineage (Psilorhinus): Caribbean Central America Cyanocorax morio: Brown jay: widespread in eastern Mexico and Central America, also in south Texas C.cyanomelas group (Uroleuca): South America Cyanocorax caeruleus
Adults are about 30 cm (12 in) long, black, with blue wings, mantle, and tail, black bills, yellow eye rings and legs. Immature birds have yellow bills. This is a common species of jay with a wide range and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being of "least concern".
The white-throated magpie-jay and the black-throated magpie-jay were formerly placed in their own genus Calocitta. When molecular phylogenetic studies found that the genus Cyanocorax was paraphyletic relative to Calocitta, [4] [5] the two species were subsumed into Cyanocorax to resolve the paraphyly. [6] [7] Three subspecies are recognised: [6]
The black-throated jay (Cyanolyca pumilo) is a species of bird in the family Corvidae. It is found in Chiapas , Guatemala and Honduras . Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests .
The black-headed jay or lanceolated jay (Garrulus lanceolatus) is roughly the same size as its close relative the Eurasian jay, but a little more slender overall except for the bill which is slightly shorter and thicker. The top of the head is black and it has a more obvious crest too and a longer tail.
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.
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.