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 LC    Black-throated Magpie-Jay* Id (Atlas):
    Cyanocorax colliei Endemic

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Black-throated Magpie-Jay, Collie's Magpie-jay

Family
Corvidae (Crows And Jays)

Size
58 - 76 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vigors, 1829)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest, lowland dry shrubland. From sea-level - 1,700 m.

Range (Guide)
Mexico.

North-western Mexico from southern Sonora and south-western Chihuahua south through Sinaloa to Jalisco and Colima.
 
Population
Estimated population is 50,000 - 499,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (34)...)

 
Black-throated Magpie-Jay (Calocitta colliei) [XC400962]
     by Richard E. Webster from Ca\u00f1\u00f3n Cieneguilla, Alamos, Sonora, MX, Mexico (call)

 
Black-throated Magpie-Jay (Calocitta colliei) [XC234165]
     by Michael Lester from San Diego, San Diego County, California, United States (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Genus sometimes subsumed in Cyanocorax. Forms a superspecies with White-throated Magpie-Jay (Cyanocorax formosus) and often considered conspecific, and the two interbreed in Jalisco and Colima (birds with intermediate characters locally common).


References
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Files:
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