Unicolored Jay
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| Aphelocoma unicolor (Du Bus de Gisignies, 1847) |
The Unicolored Jay (Aphelocoma unicolor[1]) 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 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 9 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.
- Article with Unicolored Jay
- RangeMaps & synopsis InfoNatura NatureServe
- Picture; Article
- Unicolored Jay photo gallery VIREO
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