Black-collared Jay (Cyanolyca armillata)
About the Black-collared Jay
The black-collared jay (Cyanolyca armillata) is a species of bird in the family Corvidae, the crows and jays. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. The black-collared jay was originally described in 1845 as Cyanocorax armillatus. It and several other species were later moved to their current genus Cyanolyca. The black-collared jay and the turquoise jay (Cyanolyca turcosa) were for a time treated as subspecies of the white-collared jay (C. viridicyanus) but they were separated beginning in the 1950s. The black-collared jay's further taxonomy is unsettled. The IOC, AviList, and the Clements taxonomy assign it these three subspecies: Cyanolyca armillata armillata (Gray, 1845) Cyanolyca armillata meridana Sclater & Salvin, 1876 Cyanolyca armillata quindiuna Sclater & Salvin, 1876
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3 recordings on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×3 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela · xeno-canto lists 117 recordings for this species in total.
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Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.