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Species
Least ConcernPurplish-backed Jay
species
Observations1,035
via IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Part of
- jay
- Parent taxon
- Cyanocorax
- Image
- Purplish-backed Jay eating.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons category
- Cyanocorax beecheii
- taxon name
- Cyanocorax beecheii
- taxon common name
- gaio-de-dorso-violeta
- egg incubation period
- 18
- litter size
- 5
- short name
- C. beecheii
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Encyclopedic overview
The purplish-backed jay (Cyanocorax beecheii) is a bird of the crow family Corvidae, with purple feathers on its back, wings, and tail and black feathers elsewhere. It is endemic to northwestern Mexico, where its habitat is mainly dry deciduous forest. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed it as being a "species of least concern".
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Purplish-backed Jay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.