White-throated Magpie-jay

Taxobox
name = White-throated Magpie-Jay
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = Granada, Nicaragua
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Corvidae
genus = "Calocitta"
species = "C. formosa"
binomial = "Calocitta formosa"
binomial_authority = Swainson, 1827The White-throated Magpie-Jay, "Calocitta formosa" is a large Central American jay species. It ranges in Pacific-slope thornforest from Jalisco, Mexico to Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

Magpie-jays are noisy, gregarious birds, often traveling in easy-to-find flocks, mobbing their observers.

White-throated Magpie-Jay hybridizes in Jalisco with Black-throated Magpie-Jay ("C. colliei"), with which it forms a superspecies.

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=5720&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* [http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=51120 IUCN Red List]