Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Part of
- jay
- Parent taxon
- Cyanocorax
- Mass
- 178
- Image
- Gralha do campo.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons category
- Cyanocorax cristatellus
- taxon name
- Cyanocorax cristatellus
- taxon common name
- gaio-de-poupa-revirada
- egg incubation period
- 19
- litter size
- 5
- taxon range
- Couto Magalhães
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Encyclopedic overview
The curl-crested jay (Cyanocorax cristatellus) is a species of jay native to South America.
This New World jay is a beautiful and large (35 cm/14 in overall) bird with predominantly dark blue back, an almost black head and neck, and snow-white chest and underparts. They have a pronounced curled crest rising from just behind the beak; the crest is on average larger in males, but the sexes are generally quite similar.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Curl-crested Jaya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.