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Cyanocitta stelleri (Steller's Jay)

Synonyms: Corvus stelleri (homotypic)
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The Steller's jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) is a jay native to western North America, closely related to the blue jay found in the rest of the continent, but with a black head and upper body. It is also known as the long-crested jay, mountain jay, and pine jay. It is the only crested jay west of the Rocky Mountains. While it does not have as prominent a crest the Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) can be found west of the Rockies especially in south east British Columbia.
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Infraspecies

Cyanocitta stelleri annectens
Cyanocitta stelleri azteca
Cyanocitta stelleri borealis
Cyanocitta stelleri carbonacea
Cyanocitta stelleri carlottae
Cyanocitta stelleri coronata
Cyanocitta stelleri diademata
Cyanocitta stelleri frontalis
Cyanocitta stelleri lazula
Cyanocitta stelleri macrolopha
Cyanocitta stelleri phillipsi
Cyanocitta stelleri purpurea
Cyanocitta stelleri restricta
Cyanocitta stelleri ridgwayi
Cyanocitta stelleri stelleri
Cyanocitta stelleri suavis
Cyanocitta stelleri teotepecencis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
25
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.1938
EDGE Score: 2.41536
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  94 grams
Birth Weight [3]  8.1 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Temperate western forests, Mexican pine-oak forests, Pine forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Temperate western forests, Mexican pine-oak forests
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Endothermic [4]  20 %
Diet - Fruit [4]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  20 %
Diet - Vertibrates [4]  20 %
Forages - Canopy [4]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [4]  20 %
Forages - Understory [4]  20 %
Forages - Ground [4]  40 %
Female Maturity [5]  1 year
Male Maturity [5]  1 year
Clutch Size [6]  4
Clutches / Year [5]  1
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  3,300,000
Incubation [5]  16 days
Mating Display [3]  Ground display
Mating System [3]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [5]  16 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  12 inches (30 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Dipilto-Jalapa Mountain Range Nicaragua A1, A2, A3

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Emblem of

British Columbia

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Dasypsyllus gallinulae perpinnatus[10]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 6Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 8Balda, Russell P. and Kamil, Alan, Linking Life Zones, Life History Traits, Ecology, and Spatial Cognition in Four Allopatric Southwestern Seed Caching Corvids (2006). Papers in Behavior and Biological Sciences. Paper 36.
♦ 9DIET COMPOSITION AND REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS OF MEXICAN SPOTTED OWLS, Mark E. Seamans and R.J. Gutiérrez, J. Raptor Res. 33(2):143-148
♦ 10International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0