Mongolian Ground Jay
Podoces hendersoniHume, AO, 1871
English (US) Mongolian Ground Jay
The Mongolian Ground Jay (Podoces hendersoni) 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: desert of central Asia (Kazakhstan to Outer and Inner Mongolia)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Podoces hendersoni
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Mongolian Ground Jay
- Described by
- Hume, AO, 1871
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Podoces Hendersoni
- Described by
- Hume, AO, 1871
- Type locality
- no locality [= 'desert after leaving Sanju en route to Koshtak, and also near Oi-Tograk' (= Sinkiang on the way to Yarkand); see Henderson and Hume, 1873, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 244].
- Original description
- Ibis ser.3, vol.1, no.4 p.408
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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