
Blue and Steller's Jays
Cyanocitta
Cyanocitta is a genus of birds in the family Corvidae, a family which contains the crows, jays and magpies. Established by Hugh Edwin Strickland in 1845, it contains the following species:
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Blue Jay
speciesCyanocitta cristata

Steller's Jay
speciesCyanocitta stelleri

Steller's × Blue Jay
hybridCyanocitta stelleri × cristata
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 8228.