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The unicolored jay (Aphelocoma unicolor) is an Aphelocoma jay native to cloud forests of northwestern Central America and southern and southeastern Mexico, from central Honduras west to central Guerrero, southern Veracruz and extreme southern San Luis Potosí. It is apparently a basal member of its genus (Rice et al. 2003). At Montebello, Chiapas, it is a cooperative breeder (Webber and Brown 1994), and is not known to perform mating dances.
Subspecies
A. u. guerrerensis has an especially large bill and long tail. Its feathers are bluish-purple.
A. u. concolor has pale blue plumage.
A. u.oaxacae has dark blue plumage. Its wing, tail and tarsus are relatively short.
A. u. unicolor
A. u. griscomi
References
Rice, Nathan H.; Martínez-Meyer, Enrique & Peterson, A. Townsend (2003): Ecological niche differentiation in the Aphelocoma jays: a phylogenetic perspective. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 80(3): 369–383. doi:10.1046/j.1095-8312.2003.00242.x PDF fulltext
Webber, T., and Jerram L. Brown. 1994. Natural History of the Unicolored Jay in Chiapas, Mexico. Proceedings of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology 5(2):135-160.
Webber, T., and Nancy G. Stotz. 2019. Vocalizations of Unicolored Jays (Aphelocoma unicolor) at Montebello, Chiapas, Mexico. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 57 (1): 1-75.
= Footnotes
=External links
CONABIO: Unicolored jay drawing. Retrieved 2007-FEB-26.
Article with unicolored jay
RangeMaps & synopsisInfoNatura NatureServe Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
Picture; Article
Unicolored jay photo gallery VIREO
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Unicolored jay
- Jay
- Blue jay
- Eurasian jay
- Aphelocoma
- Canada jay
- Ground jay
- Lidth's jay
- Steller's jay
- California scrub jay
