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Green Jay

Cyanocorax yncasOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Crows and Jays (Corvidae)

Codes: Common Name: GREJ Scientific Name: CYAYNC ITIS Taxonomic No.: 179712

Head

Topo Map: Perching-like Head

Bill Shape: All-purpose
Eye Color: Dark brown.
Head Pattern: Eyeline, Special (unique patterns or features)
Crown Color: Blue
Forehead Color: White to blue
Nape Color: Blue
Throat Color: Black
Cere color: No Data

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Body

Topo Map: Perching-like Body

Length Range: 27 cm (10.5 in)
Weight: 77 g (2.7 oz)
Size: Size 3. Medium (9 - 16 in)
Color: Green, Blue, Yellow
Underparts: Pale green to yellow-green.
Upperparts: Medium to dark green.
Back Pattern: Solid
Belly Pattern: Solid
Breast Pattern: Solid

Flight

Topo Map: Perching-like Flight

Flight Pattern: Direct flight with buoyant steady wing beats.
Wingspan Range: 38 cm (15 in)
Wing Shape: Rounded-Wings
Tail Shape: Fan-shaped Tail
Tail Pattern: Solid
Upper Tail: Blue-green with yellow outer tail feathers.
Under Tail: Pale green to yellow.
Leg Color: Black

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Green Jay

Green Jay: Medium, tropical jay with green back, yellow underparts, and distinct black bib. Head and nape are pale blue and has a short crest. Tail is long, blue-green, and yellow-edged. Bill, legs and feet are black. Omnivorous. Direct flight with steady bouyant wing beats. Glides between perches.

● Song: "shink-shink-shink"

● Foraging & Feeding: Green Jay: Diet consists of arthropods, vertebrates, seeds, and fruits. Forages in family flocks, moving from the lower portion of a tree in a spiral fashion up the branches; occasionally hovers to inspect slender branches and clumps of moss. When foraging on the ground, it turns over dry leaves and twigs by sweeping its bill from side to side.

● Breeding & nesting: Green Jay: Three to five brown and purple spotted, gray, green or buff eggs are laid in a loosely made, thorny stick nest lined with rootlets or grass, and built in a bush or small tree. Incubation ranges from 17 to 18 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Green Jay: None in range.

Flight Pattern

Direct flight with buoyant steady wing beats.

● Range & Habitat: Green Jay: Resident from south Texas (Rio Grande Valley) south to the American tropics. Preferred habitats include open woodlands, dense secondary growth, and bushy thickets dominated by mesquite.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationCommon in restricted range

^MigrationNonmigratory

^Weight2.7 Ounces

Perching-like Head

Perching-like Body

Perching-like Flight

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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