Violaceous jay

Violaceous Jay
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Corvidae
Genus:	Cyanocorax
Species:	C. violaceus
Binomial name
Cyanocorax violaceus Du Bus de Gisignies, 1847

The Violaceous Jay (Cyanocorax violaceus) is a species of bird in the Corvidae family, the crows and their allies. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Distribution

The range of the Violaceous Jay is the southwest and northwest Amazon Basin, from northern Bolivia, through Amazonian eastern Peru and Ecuador, Amazonian Colombia, and the Orinoco River Basin and beyond into northern Venezuela. The range is east of the Andes cordillera, except in the north in Colombia and Venezuela. In southwest Guyana, (the southwest Guiana Shield), the range borders Roraima state, Brazil and the Amazon River, (Rio Negro), tributary, the south-flowing Branco River of central Roraima.

In Brazil's western Amazon Basin, the Violaceous Jay is found in Roraima, Amazonas, and Acre state, the west of North Region, Brazil.

Source

• BirdLife International 2004. Cyanocorax violaceus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 25 July 2007.

External links

• Violaceous Jay videos on the Internet Bird Collection
• Photo-High Res; Article & synopsis arthurgrosset–South American Birds Photo no. 2 of 3--(in Flight)
• Photo-Medium Res; Article photobirder–"Corvidae:Crows and Allies"