Crows (Corvidae)
Black-throated Magpie-jay (Calocitta colliei) - HBW 14, p. 587
French: Geai à face noire
German: Blauwangenhäher
Spanish: Urraca Hermosa Carinegra
Other common names: Collie's Magpie-jay
Taxonomy: Pica colliei Vigors, 1829, San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico.
Genus sometimes subsumed in Cyanocorax. Forms a superspecies with C. formosa; often considered conspecific, and the two interbreed in Jalisco and Colima (birds with intermediate characters locally common). Monotypic.
Distribution: NW Mexico from S Sonora and SW Chihuahua S through Sinaloa to Jalisco and Colima.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Adult bird head.
Locality Vogelpark Walsrode, Walsrode, Lower Saxony, Germany (Monotypic species)
Tomasz Doroń 15 October 2011 1 year ago 3.8 -
Close-up of a bird perched.
Locality Faunia Park, Moratalaz, Madrid, Spain (Monotypic species)
Pedro Ortega Pinilla 5 January 2008 3 years ago 3.7 -
Adult perched on tree
Locality Alamos, Sonora State, Mexico (Northern)
Hector Ceballos-Lascurain 12 March 2013 13 weeks ago 3.6 -
An adult bird eating a mouse.
Locality Faunia Park, Moratalaz, Madrid, Spain (Monotypic species)
Pedro Ortega Pinilla 5 January 2008 3 years ago 3.5 -
Adult bird.
Locality Vogelpark Niendorf, Timmendorfer Strand, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Tomasz Doroń 5 June 2012 48 weeks ago 3 -
A bird on a branch just before flying away.
Locality Chestnut Lodge private collection, Surrey, England, Great Britain
Josep del Hoyo 25 May 2009 2 years ago 3 -
on a power line
Locality La Noria Road, Sinaloa State, Mexico (Northern) (Monotypic species)
Michael Retter 1 March 2008 3 years ago 2.7
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