Crows (Corvidae)
White-naped Jay (Cyanocorax cyanopogon) - HBW 14, p. 584
French: Geai à nuque blanche
German: Weißnacken-Blaurabe
Spanish: Chara Nuquiblanca
Other common names: Blue-bearded Jay, White-collared Jay(!)
Taxonomy: Corvus cyanopogon Wied, 1821, Rio Cachoeira (a headwater of the River Ilhéos), eastern Bahia, Brazil.
Forms a species pair, and previously regarded as conspecific, with C. chrysops; it has also been suggested that the two form a superspecies with C. dickeyi. Proposed race C. chrysops interpositus (described from Alagoas, in NE Brazil) seems to be based on a female of present species in worn subadult plumage, but possibly a valid taxon. Monotypic.
Distribution: NE & E Brazil from Maranhão E to Ceará and Paraíba, S to SE Pará (upper R Xingú, Gorotire), extreme E Mato Grosso (R das Mortes), Goiás, Minas Gerais and Bahia, and isolated population in Espírito Santo.
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A bird near the ground, calling and feeding. Locality Mãe-da-Lua Reserve, Itapajé, Ceará State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 29 September 2008 4 years ago 43 sec 4.8 -
A bird on the ground, feeding. Locality Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 7 October 2008 3 years ago 34 sec 4.2 -
Several birds on the ground, feeding and calling. Locality Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 7 October 2008 3 years ago 49 sec 4.2 -
A bird on the ground, feeding on maize. Locality Mãe-da-Lua Reserve, Itapajé, Ceará State, Brazil
Josep del Hoyo 29 September 2008 3 years ago 32 sec 4.2 -
Three birds drinking and flying away consecutively. Locality Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 7 October 2008 3 years ago 33 sec 4 -
A bird on the ground, feeding on maize at a feeding station of the national park. Locality Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 7 October 2008 3 years ago 40 sec 4 -
A bird drinking. Locality Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 7 October 2008 3 years ago 31 sec 4 -
A bird calling in a tree. Locality Crato, Ceará State, Brazil
Yoel Jimenez 16 November 2006 3 years ago 16 sec 2.8
