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Biddulph's Ground Jay (Podoces biddulphi)

Biddulph's Ground Jay
Photo: James Eaton (@james_birdtourasia) via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Biddulph's Ground Jay

The Xinjiang ground jay (Podoces biddulphi) or Biddulph's ground jay is a species of bird in the family Corvidae. It is endemic to Xinjiang, China. It is not larger than an adult human's hand and has a brownish white coat of feathers. Since 2004, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has listed the jay's conservation status as Near Threatened due to habitat fragmentation and degradation. Its population is small, and its range is limited. The xinjiang ground jay is a corvid of the subfamily Corvinae within the genus Podoces. It is related to the Iranian ground jay and the Mongolian ground jay.

Source: Xinjiang ground jay on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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No audio on this page yet

We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 9 recordings for this species: 5 CC BY-NC-ND · 4 CC BY-NC-SA. 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.

As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.

Listed as recorded in China in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Related species you can hear

This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.