Purplish-backed Jay
Cyanocorax beecheii(Vigors, NA, 1829)
English (US) Purplish-backed Jay
The Purplish-backed Jay (Cyanocorax beecheii) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Corvidae (Crows, Jays, and Magpies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: lowlands of western Mexico (southeastern Sonora and Chihuahua to Nayarit)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Cyanocorax beecheii
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Purplish-backed Jay
- Described by
- (Vigors, NA, 1829)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Pica Beecheii
- Described by
- (Vigors, NA, 1829)
- Type locality
- Montereale [= Mazatlan, Sinaloa or San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico].
- Original description
- The Zoological Journal 4, no.15 p.353
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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