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Magpie-jay

Index Magpie-jay

The magpie-jays are a genus, Calocitta, of the family Corvidae (crow-like birds) native to the southern part of North America. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 12 relations: Ancient Greek, Black-throated magpie-jay, Corvidae, Cyanocorax, Family (biology), Genus, George Robert Gray, Species, Tail, Type species, White-throated magpie-jay, William John Swainson.

  2. Calocitta

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Black-throated magpie-jay

The black-throated magpie-jay (Calocitta colliei) is a strikingly long-tailed magpie-jay of northwestern Mexico. Magpie-jay and black-throated magpie-jay are Calocitta.

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Corvidae

Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, magpies, jackdaws, jays, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers.

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Cyanocorax

Cyanocorax is a genus of New World jays, passerine birds in the family Corvidae.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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George Robert Gray

George Robert Gray (8 July 1808 – 6 May 1872) was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Tail

The tail is the section at the rear end of certain kinds of animals' bodies; in general, the term refers to a distinct, flexible appendage to the torso.

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Type species

In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).

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White-throated magpie-jay

The white-throated magpie-jay (Calocitta formosa) is a large Central American species of magpie-jay. Magpie-jay and white-throated magpie-jay are Calocitta.

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William John Swainson

William John Swainson FLS, FRS (8 October 1789 – 6 December 1855), was an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist, and artist.

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See also

Calocitta

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie-jay

Also known as Calocitta, Magpie-Jays.