Order: Passeriformes | Family: Corvidae| IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Manu Road, Cuzco
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonas, Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Manu Road, Cuzco
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Manu Road, Cuzco
Status: The White-collared Jay is fairly common in montane forests of the east slope of the Andes at elevations ranging between 1800-3500 m. It also occurs in Bo.
Name in Spanish: Urraca de Collar Blanco.
Sub-species: White-collared Jay (Cyanolyca viridicyanus jolyaea), (Bonaparte), 1852. N & C Peru (from Amazonas S to Junín).
(Cyanolyca viridicyanus cyanolaema), Hellmayr, 1917. SE Peru (Cuzco and Puno).
(Cyanolyca viridicyanus viridicyanus), (d’Orbigny and Lafresnaye), 1838. NW Bolivia (La Paz and Cochabamba).
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.