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Cyanocorax chrysops (Plush-crested Jay)

Synonyms: Pica chrysops (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

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.
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Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
11
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.39627
EDGE Score: 1.48076

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  166 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  80 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  30 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  30 %
Forages - Understory [2]  30 %
Forages - Ground [2]  10 %
Clutch Size [3]  3
Incubation [3]  19 days
Snout to Vent Length [4]  14 inches (36 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Cerrado Brazil No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Araucaria angustifolia (Parana pine)[3]
Myrsine ovalis var. ovalis (leathery colicwood)[5]
Plinia trunciflora[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Diplotriaena americana <Unverified Name>[7]
Skrjabinura spiralis <Unverified Name>[7]
Tanaisia similis[7]
Viktorocara brasiliensis <Unverified Name>[7]
Zonorchis confusus <Unverified Name>[7]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Fiora, A. 1934. El peso de las aves. Hornero 5: 353–365
2Hamish 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
3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
5Shayana de Jesus e Emygdio Leite de Araujo Monteiro-Filho 2007. Frugivoria por aves em Schinus terebinthifolius (Anacardiaceae) e Myrsine coriacea (Myrsinaceae) Rev. Bras. Ornitol. 15(4):585-591
6Frugivoria realizada por aves em Myrciaria trunciflora (Mart) O. Berg. (Myrtaceae), Eugenia uniflora L. (Myrtaceae) e Ilex paraguariensis St. Hil. no norte do estado do Rio Grande do Sul; Juliano Colussi, e Nêmora Pauletti Prestes; Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia, 19(1):48-55
7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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