Beautiful Jay (Cyanolyca pulchra) | Photos, Calls and ID

NTNear ThreatenedInvertebrates

ForestCup nestMedium · 104 g

Beautiful Jay (Cyanolyca pulchra), photo 1 — Photo: Ryan F. Mandelbaum · CC BY 4.0

Beautiful Jay (Cyanolyca pulchra), photo 2 — Photo: Dario Taraborelli · CC0

Beautiful Jay (Cyanolyca pulchra), photo 3 — Photo: Laura Gaudette · CC BY 4.0

Beautiful Jay (Cyanolyca pulchra), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Laura Gaudette, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Beautiful Jay (Cyanolyca pulchra), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Ryan F. Mandelbaum, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Beautiful Jay (Cyanolyca pulchra), photo 6 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

What the Beautiful Jay sounds like

Sonogram of the Beautiful Jay: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Carchi: El Corazón, Reserva Cerro Golondrinas, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Beautiful Jay

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Beautiful Jay

Regular range

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Colombia Ecuador

About the Beautiful Jay

The beautiful jay is a species of bird in the crow and jay family Corvidae. It is closely related to the azure-hooded jay, and the two species are considered sister species. The species is monotypic, having no subspecies. The specific name for the beautiful jay, pulchra, is Latin for "beautiful".

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Black-throated JayCyanolyca pumiloThe black-throated jay is about 23 to 28 cm (9.1 to 11 in) long and weighs about 47 to 60 g (1.7 to 2.1 oz).

White-collared JayCyanolyca viridicyanusThe white-collared jay is 30 to 34 cm (12 to 13 in) long and weighs 82 to 127 g (2.9 to 4.5 oz).

Dwarf JayCyanolyca nanusThe dwarf jay is the smallest jay in the Americas at 20 to 23 cm (7.9 to 9.1 in) long.

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