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Family Corvidae (Jays, Magpies and Crows)
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
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"Family Corvidae (Jays, Magpies and Crows)".
In Robb's On-line Multimedia Database of Animals and Plants.
Nov. 17, 1998.
Genera of the Family Corvidae (Jays, Magpies and Crows)
sometimes considered the tribe Corvini of the subfamily Corvinae
- Aphelocoma (Aphelocoma jays)
- Calocitta (magpie-jays)
- Cissa (green magpies)
- Corvus (crows, ravens and jackdaws)
Subgenera:
- Coloeus (jackdaws)
- Corvultur (African ravens)
- Corvus (crows and ravens)
- Crypsirina (racquet-tailed treepies)
- Cyanocitta (Blue and Stellar's jays)
- Cyanocorax
Subgenera:
- Cissolopha (Cissolopha jays)
- Cyanocorax (Cyanocorax jays)
- Uroleuca (Curl-crested Jay)
- Cyanolyca (Cyanolyca jays)
- Cyanopica (Azure-winged Magpie)
- Dendrocitta (treepies)
- Garrulus (Palearctic jays in part)
- Gymnorhinus (Pinyon Jay)
- Nucifraga (nutcrackers)
- Perisoreus (Palearctic jays in part)
- Pica (pied magpies)
- Platylophus (Crested Jay)
- Platysmurus (Black Magpie)
- Podoces (ground-jays, ground-choughs in part)
- Pseudopodoces (Hume's Ground-jay)
- Psilorhinus (Brown Jay)
- Ptilostomas (Piapiac)
- Pyrrhocorax (choughs)
- Temnurus (Ratchet-tailed Treepie; sometimes included in Crypsirina)
- Urocissa (blue magpies)
- Zavattariornis (Stresemann's Bush-crow)
Sources:
- Bernard, Raimar. 1993. Vogelnamen englisch-deutsch-latein: mit einer Einführung in die Systematik der Vögel. Aula: Wiesbaden. 267 pages.
- Collar, N.J. et al. 1994. Birds to Watch 2. BirdLife International: Cambridge, U.K. 407 pages.
- Madge & Burns. 1994. Crows and Jays. Houghton Mifflin: Boston. 191 pages.
- Perrins, Christopher (Author part 1) & C.J.O. Harrison (Ed. part 2). Birds: Their Life, Their Ways, Their World. Reader's Digest: Pleasantville, NY, 1987.
- Peterson, Roger Tory. 1980. A Field Guide to the Birds (East of the Rockies). Houghton Mifflin: Boston. 384 pages.
- Robbins, Chandler S. et al. 1966. Birds of North America. Golden Press: New York. 340 pages.
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