Crows (Corvidae)
White-throated Magpie-jay (Calocitta formosa) - HBW 14, p. 587
French: Geai à face blanche
German: Langschwanzhäher
Spanish: Urraca Hermosa Cariblanca
Taxonomy: Pica formosa Swainson, 1827, Temiscaltipec, Mexico.
Genus sometimes subsumed in Cyanocorax. Forms a superspecies with C. colliei; often considered conspecific, and the two interbreed in SW Mexico (Jalisco and Colima, where birds with intermediate characters locally common). A hybrid between present species and Psilorhinus morio recorded in S Mexico (Chiapas). Nominate race intergrades with azurea in Oaxaca (S Mexico). Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- formosa ( Swainson, 1827) - S Mexico from Colima, Michoacán and Puebla S to Oaxaca.
- azurea Nelson, 1897 - Pacific slope in SE Mexico (Oaxaca and Chiapas) and W Guatemala.
- pompata Bangs, 1914 - SE Mexico (interior of E Oaxaca, interior of Chiapas) and Atlantic side of Guatemala (Motagua Valley) S through El Salvador and W Honduras to NW Costa Rica.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A newly fledged young on a branch Locality Granada, Granada Department, Nicaragua (ssp pompata)
Bill Wayman 31 July 2007 5 years ago 39 sec 4.7 -
A bird giving the alarm call Locality Granada, Granada Department, Nicaragua (ssp pompata)
Bill Wayman 31 July 2007 5 years ago 39 sec 4.7 -
A bird perched and beak-wiping briefly. Locality Nueva Guatemala, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica (ssp pompata)
Richard Garrigues 15 July 2012 31 weeks ago 39 sec 4.3 -
A bird perched and stretching its wing Locality Granada, Granada Department, Nicaragua (ssp pompata)
Bill Wayman 31 July 2007 5 years ago 17 sec 4 -
A bird on a tree top, preening and calling twice. Locality Tehuantepec, Oaxaca State, Mexico (Southern) (ssp pompata)
Josep del Hoyo 15 April 2009 3 years ago 43 sec 3.3 -
A bird perched. Locality Rincon de la Vieja, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica (ssp pompata)
Richard Garrigues 1 May 2010 2 years ago 24 sec 3
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in alert...
Locality Padre Ramos, Chinandega Department, Nicaragua (ssp pompata)
Orlando Jarquín G. 4 November 2012 22 weeks ago 4.3 -
![White-throated Magpie-Jay (Calocitta formosa); © Boris Nikolov [www.fotobiota.com]](http://ibc.lynxeds.com/files/imagecache/thumb/pictures/Calocitta_formosa_www_fotobiota_com.jpg "White-throated Magpie-Jay (Calocitta formosa); © Boris Nikolov [www.fotobiota.com]")
Close-up of a young bird.
Locality Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica (ssp pompata)
Boris Nikolov 7 March 2010 1 year ago 4 -
This bird was in my back yard overlooking the Pacific Ocean in San Juan del Sur.
Locality Nicaragua
Dannie Polley 9 January 2009 2 years ago 4 -
alarmed
Locality Las Banderas Forest, Volcán San Cristóbal-Casita Natural Reserve, Chinandega Department, Nicaragua
Orlando Jarquín G. 28 January 2012 1 year ago 3.7 -
Adult bird perched on a branch into the evergreen moist forest in Hacienda Santa Rosa.
Locality Santa Rosa National Park, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica (ssp pompata)
Luis Mario Arce 9 July 1995 3 years ago 3.7 -
Individual perched on a branch.
Locality Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica
Miriam Bauman 11 February 2011 2 years ago 3.3
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A bird calling.
Locality Loma Real Hotel, Tapachula, Chiapas State, Mexico (Southern)
(ssp pompata)
Josep del Hoyo 5 April 2009 3 years ago 4
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