Plush-crested Jay (Cyanocorax chrysops)

Other Names (World)
Plush-crested Jay, Plush-capped Jay, Band-tailed Jay, Urraca Jay

Family
Corvidae (Crows And Jays)

Size
35 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1818)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest. From sea-level - 2,800 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay (B).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (145)...)

Plush-crested Jay (Cyanocorax chrysops) [XC78188]
by Bob Planque from Panga Research Station, Minas Gerais, Brazil (call)

Plush-crested Jay (Cyanocorax chrysops) [XC13555]
by Evair Legal from PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael, Paraguay (chyoo alarm?)

Subspecies
Forms a species pair, and previously regarded as conspecific, with White-naped Jay (Cyanocorax cyanopogon). It has also been suggested that the two form a superspecies with Tufted Jay (Cyanocorax dickeyi).

Proposed subspecies interpositus (described from Alagoas, in north-eastern Brazil) seems to be based on a female of White-naped Jay (Cyanocorax cyanopogon) in worn subadult plumage, but possibly a valid taxon.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

diesingii Pelzeln, 1856 - Northern Brazil in extreme eastern Amazonas (right bank of lower R Madeira) and on southern side of Amazon in western Pará (lower R Tapajós).
insperatus Pinto & Camargo, 1961 - Western Pará (restricted to eastern lower R Tapajós, Serra do Cachimbo), in north-central Brazil.
chrysops (Vieillot, 1818) - Northern, eastern and south-eastern Bolivia (Beni, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Chuquisaca and Tarija), south-eastern Brazil (Mato Grosso do Sul and S�o Paulo south to Rio Grande do Sul), Paraguay, north-eastern Argentina (south to Chaco and Entre R��os) and north-western Uruguay.
tucumanus Cabanis, 1883 - North-western Argentina (Salta, Tucumán, Catamarca and La Rioja).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Plush-crested Jay (Cyanocorax chrysops) - 10 files

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