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Corvinae
Corvinae is one of six subfamilies in the crow family (Corvidae). It comprises 64 species, which are spread over seven genera 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. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial s .... References Corvidae Bird subfamilies {{Corvidae-stub ...
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Corvidae
Corvidae is a Cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan Family (biology), family of Songbird, oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, Rook (bird), rooks, magpies, jackdaws, jays, treepies, choughs, and Nutcracker (bird), nutcrackers. In Colloquialism, colloquial English, they are known as the crow family or corvids. Currently, 139 species are included in this family. The genus ''Corvus'' containing 50 species makes up over a third of the entire family. Corvids (ravens) are the largest passerines. Corvids display remarkable Animal cognition, intelligence for animals of their size, and are among the most Bird intelligence, intelligent birds thus far studied. Specifically, members of the family have demonstrated self-awareness in mirror tests (Eurasian magpies) and Tool use by animals, tool-making ability (e.g. crows and rooks), skills which until recently were thought to be possessed only by humans and a few other mammals. Their total Brain–body mass ratio, brain-to- ...
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Genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. Phylogeneti ...
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Crypsirina
'' Crypsirina '' is a small genus of long-tailed passerine birds in the crow and jay family, Corvidae. The two species are highly arboreal and rarely come to the ground to feed. The generic name is derived from the Greek words ''kruptō'', meaning "to conceal," and ''rhis'' or ''rhinos'', meaning "nostrils". They are: The racket-tailed treepie, formerly placed in ''Dendrocitta'', is an all-black Southeast Asian species. The grey and black hooded treepie is endemic to Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has .... References {{Taxonbar, from=Q1415169 Bird genera Birds of Indochina Taxa named by Louis Pierre Vieillot ...
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Aphelocoma
The passerine birds of the genus ''Aphelocoma'' include the scrub jays and their relatives. They are New World jays found in Mexico, western Central America and the western United States, with an outlying population in Florida. This genus belongs to the group of New World (or "blue") jays—possibly a distinct subfamily–which is not closely related to other jays, magpies or treepies. Within this group, according to a 2023 molecular analysis, ''Aphelocoma'' is the sister group to a clade consisting of ''Cyanocitta'' and ''Pinyon jay, Gymnorhinus''. They live in open pine-oak forests, chaparral, and California mixed evergreen forest, mixed evergreen forests. Systematics Seven species of ''Aphelocoma'' are generally recognized at the present time. They are believed to have evolved in the Pleistocene, and the Florida scrub jay is known to have been recognizably distinct and present in its current range for at least two million years. The inland, coastal, and Santa Cruz island pop ...
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Psilorhinus
The brown jay (''Cyanocorax morio'') is a large jay native to Central America and southern Texas. Taxonomy The brown jay was formerly placed in its own genus ''Psilorhinus''. When molecular phylogenetic studies found that the genus ''Cyanocorax'' was paraphyletic relative to ''Psilorhinus'', ''Psilorhinus'' was subsumed into ''Cyanocorax'' to resolve the paraphyly. Three subspecies are recognised: * ''C. m. palliatus'' (Adriaan Joseph van Rossem, Van Rossem, 1934) – extreme south Texas (south USA) and northeast, east Mexico * ''C. m. morio'' (Johann Georg Wagler, Wagler, 1829) – southeast Mexico to west Panama * ''C. m. vociferus'' (Samuel Cabot III, Cabot, S, 1843) – north Yucatán Peninsula (southeast Mexico) Description Brown jays vary in plumage geographically: there are two main groups. Northern birds are almost completely dark brown, with lighter brown on the underparts. Southern birds are white-bellied and have bright white tips to the outer tail feathers. The inte ...
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Calocitta
__NOTOC__ ''Cyanocorax'' is a genus of New World jays, passerine birds in the family Corvidae. It contains several closely related species that primarily are found in wooded habitats, chiefly in lowland tropical rainforest but in some cases also in seasonally dry forest, grassland and montane forest. They occur from Mexico through Central into southern South America, with the green jay and brown jay just entering the United States in southernmost Texas, ad the Azure and Plush-crested jays occurring southwards to the lower Paraná River basin. This genus is considered especially close to ''Cyanolyca'', an upland radiation occurring throughout the American Cordillera from Mexico to Peru and Bolivia, who look very similar to the blue-and-black species of ''Cyanocorax'' except for being a bit smaller. The North American blue jay genera ''Aphelocoma, Cyanocitta'' and '' Gymnorhinus'' seem to be slightly less closely related. ''Cyanocorax'' jays are generally black-and-blue, often ...
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Cyanopica
''Cyanopica'' is a genus of magpie in the family Corvidae. They belong to a common lineage with the genus '' Perisoreus''. The genus ''Cyanopica'' was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. The type species was designated by George Gray in 1855 as ''Corvus cyanus'' Pallas, 1766, the azure-winged magpie. The generic name is derived from the Latin words ''cyanos'', meaning "lapis lazuli", and ''pica'', meaning "magpie Magpies are birds of various species of the family Corvidae. Like other members of their family, they are widely considered to be intelligent creatures. The Eurasian magpie, for instance, is thought to rank among the world's most intelligent c ...". Species The genus contains two species: References {{Taxonbar, from=Q2717364 Bird genera   Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte ...
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Perisoreus
The genus ''Perisoreus'' is a very small genus of jays from the Boreal regions of North America and Eurasia from Scandinavia to the Asian seaboard. An isolated species also occurs in north-western Sichuan of China. They belong to the Passerine order of birds in the family Corvidae. Species of ''Perisoreus'' jays are most closely related to the genus '' Cyanopica''. The genus was introduced by the French zoologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1831. The type species was subsequently designated as the Canada jay. The name of the genus may come from the Ancient Greek ''perisōreuō'' "to heap up" or "bury beneath". Alternatively it may be from the Latin ''peri-'' "very" or "exceedingly" and ''sorix'', a bird of augury Augury was a Greco- Roman religious practice of observing the behavior of birds, to receive omens. When the individual, known as the augur, read these signs, it was referred to as "taking the auspices". "Auspices" () means "looking at birds". ... dedicated to Sa ...
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