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Plush-crested Jay

A species of Typical Neotropical Jays
Scientific name : Cyanocorax chrysops Genus : Typical Neotropical Jays

Plush-crested Jay, A species of Typical Neotropical Jays
Botanical name: Cyanocorax chrysops
Genus: Typical Neotropical Jays
Plush-crested Jay (Cyanocorax chrysops) Photo By Lip Kee , used under CC-BY-SA-2.0 /Cropped and compressed from original

Description

The plush-crested jay (Cyanocorax chrysops) is a jay of the family Corvidae (which includes the crows and their many allies). It is found in central-southern South America: in southwestern Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina, including southern regions of the Amazon Basin river systems bordering the Pantanal. This is an elegant medium-sized bird, dark plumaged with a cream-yellow breast; the bulky tail is also cream colored, top and underneath, for the lower half.
Size
35 cm
Life Expectancy
10.4-24.2 years (male), 23.8 years (female)
Feeding Habits
Plush-crested Jay consumes a varied diet including insects, fruits, nuts, especially from the Paraná pine, and will also prey on nestlings, eggs, and freshly planted corn. Its foraging behavior shows adaptability and opportunism.
Habitat
Forests, more open woodlands, forest borders, scrub, scrublands, agricultural groves
Dite type
Omnivorous

General Info

Distribution Area

The range of the plush-crested jay extends from the Southern Region, Brazil with Uruguay and approaches the South Atlantic coast, but avoids the coast, approximating a 400 to 150 km coastal strip; the coastal-inland range extends 3500 km from São Paulo south to Rio Grande do Sul bordering Uruguay. The inland range continues in northwestern Uruguay and extends northwest through northern Argentina, Paraguay–Bolivia, and through the Pantanal at the southern Cerrado; the range extends in two arms, to the northwest to northern Bolivia, and northeastwards to headwaters of the Amazon Basin Tapajós River. In the Amazon Basin, central Bolivia is the northwest range limit, the headwater tributaries to the north-northeast flowing Madeira River; the next range skips the Guaporé River, (a northwest-flowing tributary to the Madeira), eastwards on the Brazil–Bolivia border, and is next found at the headwaters of the Tapajós River, and joins on the east the extreme headwaters of the Xingu River. A disjunct range occurs downstream on the Tapajós and east towards the Xingu River, a block 850 by 750 kilometres (530 mi × 470 mi). Two other localized populations occur in the Amazon Basin, one on the Amazon River, the other on the downstream Madeira River.

Species Status

Not globally threatened.
Plush-crested Jay (Cyanocorax chrysops) Plush-crested Jay (Cyanocorax chrysops) Photo By Lip Kee , used under CC-BY-SA-2.0 /Cropped and compressed from original
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