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Cyanocitta is a genus of birds in the family Corvidae, a family which contains the crows, jays and magpies. The genus includes two crested jays with blue plumage and ...
The blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) is a passerine bird in the family Corvidae, native to eastern North America.It lives in most of the eastern and central United States; some eastern populations may be migratory.
Steller's jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) is a bird native to western North America and the mountains of Central America, closely related to the blue jay (C. cristata) found in eastern North America. It is the only crested jay west of the Rocky Mountains .
Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, magpies, jackdaws, jays, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers. [1] [2] [3] In colloquial English, they are known as the crow family or corvids.
The genus Cyanocitta is a New World genus of jays, passerine birds of the family Corvidae. Pages in category "Cyanocitta" The following 3 pages are in this category ...
The specific epithet is from the Latin formosus meaning "beautiful". [3] 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 ...
This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary. There are a few general rules about how they combine.
The variation ("polymorphism", in this case, a "color morph") most commonly found is pure blue, dark blue, or light blue, although observers find the aqua, purple, or orange variation throughout the ocean.