Order: Passeriformes | Family: Corvidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Chinguela, Cajamarca
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Eastern Andes, Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Eastern Andes, Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Eastern Andes, Ecuador
Status: The Turquoise Jay is fairly common in montane forests of the east slope of the Andes on the west side of the Marañon Valley at elevations ranging between 2400-3000 m. It also occurs in Co and Ec.
Name in Spanish: Urraca Turquesa.
Sub-species: Turquoise Jay (Cyanolyca turcosa), (Bonaparte), 1853.
Meaning of Name: Cyanolyca: Gr. kuanos= dark-blue and lukos= a type of crow, perhaps the Jackdaw, mentioned by Aristotle and Hesychius. viridicyanus: L. viridis, virere= green, to be green and kuaneos, cyaneus= dark-blue, glossy dark-blue.

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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 03/01/2016.