Unicolored Jay
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| Aphelocoma unicolor (Du Bus de Gisignies, 1847) |
The Unicolored Jay (Aphelocoma unicolor[1]) is a scrub jay native to cloud forests of western Central America and southeastern Mexico, from western Honduras west to central Guerrero, southern Veracruz and extreme southern San Luis Potosi. It is apparently a basal member of its genus (Rice et al. 2003).
[edit] References
- BirdLife International (2004). Aphelocoma unicolor. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 09 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
- 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
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Etymology: Aphelocoma, from Latinized Ancient Greek aphelo-, "soft" (Ancient Greek: apalos, απαλός) + Latin coma "hair", in reference to the smooth plumage of birds of this genus compared to other corvids. unicolor, Latin for "unicolored".
[edit] External links
- CONABIO: Unicolored Jay drawing. Retrieved 2007-FEB-26.
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