JAYS   -   CORVIDAE

White-throated Magpie-Jay Calocitta formosa formosa Zipolite, Oaxaca state, Mexico. A huge and spectacular jay found from Mexico to Costa Rica. (S5)

White-throated Magpie-Jay Calocitta formosa formosa Zipolite, Oaxaca state, Mexico. Presumably collecting nesting material. (S5)

Brown Jay Cyanocorax morio morio Las Guacamayas, Chiapas state, Mexico. (S5)

Purplish Jay Cyanocorax cyanomelas Pousada Piuval, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Found in south-central South Americam from southern Peru to northeastern Argentina. With a Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus in the foreground. (S6)

Violaceous Jay Cyanocorax violaceus violaceus Lumbaqui, Sucumbíos province, Ecuador. A common jay of low elevations east of the Andes. (S5)

Curl-crested Jay Cyanocorax cristatellus Chapada dos Guimarães, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. (D3)		White-tailed Jay Cyanocorax mystacalis Bosque de Pomac, Lambayeque department, Peru. (D2)

Plush-crested Jay Cyanocorax chrysops tucumanus Calilegua NP, Jujuy province, Argentina. This bold and handsome bird is found from Bolivia and central Brazil south through northern Argentina. White common in some areas such as Calilegua NP, in other parts of its range it can be quite scarce and local. (S5)

Plush-crested Jay Cyanocorax chrysops tucumanus Calilegua NP, Jujuy province, Argentina. (D3)

Turquoise Jay Cyanolyca turcosa Reserva Geobotánica Pululahua, Pichincha province, Ecuador. These beautiful birds, often conspicuous and noisy, are nearly endemic to Ecuador. They barely get into southern Colombia and northern Peru. (S5)

Black-throated Jay Cyanolyca pumilo Lagos de Montebello, Chiapas state, Mexico. (S5)

Dwarf Jay Cyanolyca nana La Cumbre, Oaxaca state, Mexico Endemic to pine-oak forests of southern Mexico. (S5)

Unicolored Jay Aphelocoma unicolor oaxacae 15 km SW of Valle Nacional, Oaxaca state, Mexico. (S5)

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