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Black-throated Magpie-Jay
Cyanocorax colliei
Audubon Illustration
John James Audubon, Birds of America (1827-1838). Public domain.
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About the Black-throated Magpie-Jay
The black-throated magpie-jay (Cyanocorax colliei) is a strikingly long-tailed magpie-jay of northwestern Mexico.
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Cyanocorax colliei
- Family
- Crows, Jays, and Magpies
- Order
- Passeriformes
Similar species
Other members of the crows, jays, and magpies family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
- Azure-hooded Jay Cyanolyca cucullata
- Azure-winged Magpie Cyanopica cyanus
- Black-billed Magpie Pica hudsonia
- Black-throated Jay Cyanolyca pumilo
- Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
- Brown Jay Cyanocorax morio
- California Scrub-Jay Aphelocoma californica
- Canada Jay Perisoreus canadensis
- Chihuahuan Raven Corvus cryptoleucus
- Clark's Nutcracker Nucifraga columbiana
- Common Raven Corvus corax
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