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Ground-Jays
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Ground-Jays

Podoces

The ground jays or ground choughs belong to a distinct group of the passerine order of birds in the genus Podoces of the crow family Corvidae. They inhabit high altitude semi-desert areas from central Asia to Mongolia.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species

Mongolian Ground-Jay

speciesPodoces hendersoni

Turkestan Ground-Jay

speciesPodoces panderi

Iranian Ground-Jay

speciesPodoces pleskei

Xinjiang Ground-Jay

speciesPodoces biddulphi

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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 8499.