Aphelocoma ultramarina

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine-oak forests, gallery forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine forests • Minimum Elevation: 1,200 meters • Maximum Elevation: 3,400 meters • Zoogeographic Region: Northern Mexican Mountains • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Middle montane: mountains, middle range, 1,600-2,600 m. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,839 meters (0 to 9,314 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
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Biology

Diet

Mostly: Nuts.

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Woodland
• Nest Location: Mid-story/canopy nesting
• Nest Type: Open-cup
• Clutch Size: 4-5
• Length of Incubation : 16-18 days
• Days to Fledge : 24-25
• Number of Broods: 1

Migration

Permanent resident

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Aphelocoma ultramarina (Bonaparte, 1825)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 24-Jun-1996

Similar Species

The Mexican Jay, an inhabitant of southeastern Arizona, is similar to the Western Scrub-Jay but has uniform underparts lacking the white throat and dark collar and more evenly colored upperparts.

Members of the genus Aphelocoma

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 17 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. california (Western Scrub-Jay) · A. californica (Florida Scrub-Jay) · A. californica californica (Western Scrub-Jay) · A. californica cana (Eagle Mountain Scrub Jay) · A. californica nevadae (Nevada Scrub Jay) · A. californica oocleptica (Nicasio Scrub Jay) · A. coerulescens (Desert California Jay) · A. coerulescens cactophila (Scrub Jay) · A. coerulescens coerulescens (Florida Scrub Jay) · A. coerulescens nevadae (Scrub Jay) · A. coerulescens woodhousei (Scrub Jay) · A. insularis (Island Scrub Jay) · A. ultramarina (Grey-Breasted Jay) · A. ultramarina arizonae (Gray-Breasted Jay) · A. ultramarina ultramarina (Gray-Breasted Jay) · A. unicolor (Unicoloured Jay) · A. unicolor unicolor (Unicoloured Jay)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A check list of North American birds. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1882. url p. 67.
• A manual of North American birds by Robert Ridgway. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1887. url .
• A manual of North American birds. By Robert Ridgway. Illustrated by 464 outline drawings of the generic characters. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1887. url p. 357.
• A manual of North American birds. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1900. url p. 357, .
• Biologia centrali-americana: Aves / [London: R.H. Porter], 1879-1904. url .
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , p. 30, p. 325, p. 343, p. 766.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 115.
• Check-list of North American birds. [Ithaca, N.Y.]1957. url p. 374, p. 659, p. 665.
• Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 506, p. 804.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 214.
• Field ornithology comprising a manual of instruction for procuring, preparing and preserving birds and a check list of North American birds / by Elliott Coues. Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1874. url .
• Field ornithology. Comprising a manual of instruction for procuring, preparing and preserving birds, and a check list of North American birds Salem [Mass.]Naturalists' Agency, 1874 url p. 129.
• Great Basin naturalist memoirs. 1976 [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. url p. 199.
• Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and Lower California Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1896. url , p. 878.
• Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. 1965 Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1946-1996. url p. 37, p. 39.
• Nomenclature of North American birds chiefly contained in the United States National Museum. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1881. url , .
• Pesticides monitoring journal. [Washington, D.C.: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1967-1981. url p. 6.
• Postilla. 1968 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 29.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 185.
• Syllogeus. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1972-1995. url p. 24.
• The Coues check list of North American birds. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1882. url p. 67.
• The University of Kansas science bulletin. 42 1961 [Lawrence]: University of Kansas, 1902-1996. url p. 126, p. 145.
• The birds of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other island Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1901- url , , , , .
• Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 15 1968 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 45.
• University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History. 8 Lawrence, University of Kansas. url p. 648, p. 678.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Aphelocoma ultramarina. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 03, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
• Hines, J. E., Gregory Gough, J. R. Sauer, et al. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• Sauer, J. R., J. E. Hines, and J. Fallon. 2005. The North American Breeding Bird Survey, Results and Analysis 1966 - 2004. Version 2005.2. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD
• Sauer, J. R., S. Schwartz, and B. Hoover. 1996. The Christmas Bird Count Home Page. Version 95.1. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 03, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Avian Knowledge Network: Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3928
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-179708
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2497311
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 179707
• IUCN ID: 191920
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABPAV06020
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 178185

Footnotes

1. Mean = 1,327.760 meters (4,356.168 feet), Standard Deviation = 451.700 based on 2,213 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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