Azure-hooded Jay (Cyanolyca cucullata) [XC15633]
by Samuel Jones from La esperanza, Mpio. Copaltepec, Ixtlan, Oaxaca. N17.38'7'' W96.34'24'', Mexico (call)
Azure-hooded Jay (Cyanolyca cucullata) [XC363644]
by Jorge Gabriel Campos from San Ram\u00f3n, Provincia de Alajuela, Costa Rica (alarm call, call)
Subspecies
A sister-species of Beautiful Jay (Cyanolyca pulchra).
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
mitrata Ridgway, 1899 - Eastern Mexico (extreme south-eastern San Luis Potosí and Veracruz) south to central-eastern Oaxaca).
guatemalae Pitelka, 1951 - Southern Mexico (Chiapas) and northern Guatemala (Huehuetenango, Alta Vera Paz).
hondurensis Pitelka, 1951 - Western Honduras (Caribbean slopes).
cucullata (Ridgway, 1885) - Caribbean slope of Costa Rica and Panama, extending locally across to Pacific slope.