Garrulus

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Genus of birds

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| name = Garrulus | image = Black-headed Jay (49665056687).jpg | image_caption = Black-headed jay (G. lanceolatus), India | taxon = Garrulus | authority = Brisson, 1760 | type_species = Garrulus glandarius | type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * Garrulus glandarius

  • Garrulus lanceolatus
  • Garrulus lidthi

Garrulus is a genus of Old World jays, passerine birds in the family Corvidae.

Taxonomy and systematics

The genus was established by French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760. The type species is the Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius). The name Garrulus is a Latin word meaning chattering, babbling or noisy.

Species

Three species are currently accepted, though some authors split Eurasian jay into three species, thereby accepting five species in the genus.

|name=Eurasian jay |binomial=Garrulus glandarius |image=File:Sójka na Łąkach Pychowickich w Krakowie, 20210421 1206 6369.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt= |authority-name=Linnaeus |authority-year=1758 |authority-not-original=yes |range=Western Europe and north-western Africa east to the Indian subcontinent and Eastern Asia |range-image=File:Garrulus glandarius distribution.jpg |range-image-size=180px |size=32–37 cm |habitat=woodland |hunting=omnivorous; specialising in acorns in autumn and winter |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies=34 subspecies in three main groups

|name= Black-headed jay|binomial=Garrulus lanceolatus |image=File:Black-headed-jay-rkd.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt= |authority-name=Vigors|authority-year= 1830 |authority-not-original= |range=Eastern Afghanistan east along the Himalayas, through northern India to Nepal and Bhutan |range-image= |range-image-size=180px |size=33 cm |habitat=woodland |hunting=omnivorous; specialising in acorns in autumn and winter |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies=Monotypic

|name= Lidth's jay|binomial=Garrulus lidthi |image=File:Garrulus lidthi Ueno 2013-10-06.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt= |authority-name=Bonaparte |authority-year=1850 |authority-not-original=yes |range=Ryukyu Islands south of Japan |range-image= |range-image-size=180px |size=38 cm |habitat=woodland |hunting=omnivorous |iucn-status= VU |population= |direction= |subspecies=Monotypic

References

References

  1. Brisson, Mathurin Jacques. (1760). "Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés". Jean-Baptiste Bauche.
  2. (1962). "Check-list of birds of the world". Museum of Comparative Zoology.
  3. Brisson, Mathurin Jacques. (1760). "Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés". Jean-Baptiste Bauche.
  4. (2017). "Crows, mudnesters & birds-of-paradise". International Ornithologists' Union.
  5. Hoyo, Josep del. (2020). "All the Birds of the World". Lynx edicions.
  6. Jobling, James A.. (2010). "The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Names". Christopher Helm.

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