White-collared Jay (Cyanolyca viridicyanus)
About the White-collared Jay
The white-collared jay (Cyanolyca viridicyanus) is a species of bird in the family Corvidae, the crows and jays. It is found in Bolivia and Peru. The white-collared jay was originally described in 1838 as Garrulus viridi-cyanus. The white-collared jay has these three subspecies: C. v. jolyaea (Bonaparte, 1852) C. v. cyanolaema Hellmayr, 1917 C. v. viridicyanus (D'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1838) What are now the black-collared jay (C. armillata) and the turquoise jay (C. turcosa) were for a time treated as subspecies of the white-collared jay but they were separated beginning in the 1950s. Subspecies C. v. jolyaea was originally described as a species. Due to plumage and genetic differences from the other two subspecies it "may well [again] merit species rank".
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 77 recordings for this species: 17 CC BY-NC-SA · 6 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Bolivia, Colombia, Peru in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Beautiful JayCyanolyca pulchrarecording
- Black-collared JayCyanolyca armillatarecording
- Turquoise JayCyanolyca turcosarecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.