Cyanocitta

Cyanocitta: Cyanocitta

C. cristata

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Aves

Order: Passeriformes

Family: Corvidae

Genus: Cyanocitta
Strickland, 1845

Species

Cyanocitta cristata

Cyanocitta stelleri

The genus Cyanocitta is a New World genus of jays, passerine birds of the family Corvidae. Cyanocitta includes only two of the New World jays; they are blue, crested birds that differ in the colour of the head. Their ranges generally do not overlap.

C. cristata, Blue Jay

C. stelleri, Steller's Jay

v · d · eExtant 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)

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) · Sunda Treepie (D. occipitalis) · Rufous Treepie (D. vagabunda)

Platysmurus

Black Magpie (P. leucopterus)

Temnurus

Ratchet-tailed Treepie (T. temnurus)

Oriental
magpies

Cissa

Green Magpie (C. chinensis) · Yellow-breasted Magpie (C. hypoleuca) · Short-tailed Magpie (C. thalassina)

Urocissa

Formosan 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)

Podoces
(Ground jays)

Biddulph's Ground Jay (P. biddulphi) · Henderson's Ground Jay (P. hendersoni) · Pander's Ground Jay (P. panderi) · Persian Ground Jay (P. pleskei)

Ptilostomus

Piapiac (P. afer)

Stresemann's
Bush Crow

Zavattariornis

Stresemann's Bush Crow (Z. stresemanni)

Family Corvidae (Cont.)

Nutcrackers

Nucifraga

Spotted Nutcracker (N. caryocatactes) · Clark's Nutcracker (N. columbiana)

Holarctic
magpies

Pica

Black-billed Magpie (P. hudsonia) · Yellow-billed Magpie (P. nuttalli) · European Magpie (P. pica) · Korean Magpie (P. sericea)

True crows
(crows, ravens,
jackdaws and rooks)

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: Daurian Jackdaw (C. dauuricus) · Slender-billed Crow (C. enca) · Flores Crow (C. florensis) · Jungle Crow (C. macrorhynchos) · House Crow (C. splendens) · Collared Crow (C. torquatus) · Piping Crow (C. typicus) · Banggai Crow (C. unicolor)
Eurasian and North African species: Mesopotamian Crow (C. capellanus) · Hooded Crow (C. cornix) · Carrion Crow (C. corone) · Rook (C. frugilegus) · Jackdaw (C. monedula ) · Corvidae (Cont.)

Azure-winged
Magpie

Cyanopica

Azure-winged Magpie (C. cyana)

Grey jays

Perisoreus

Gray Jay (P. canadensis) · Siberian Jay (P. infaustus) · Sichuan Jay (P. internigrans)

New World jays

Aphelocoma
(Scrub jays)

Western Scrub Jay (A. californica) · Florida Scrub Jay (A. coerulescens) · Island Scrub Jay (A. insularis) · Mexican Jay (A. ultramarina) · Unicolored Jay (A. unicolor)

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)

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C. cristata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Corvidae
Genus:	Cyanocitta Strickland, 1845
Species
Cyanocitta cristata Cyanocitta stelleri

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