The genus Perisoreus is a very small genus of jays from the Boreal regions of North America and Eurasia from Scandinavia to the Asian seaboard. An isolated species also occurs in north-western Sichuan of China. They belong to the Passerine order of birds in the family Corvidae. Species of Perisoreus jays are most closely related to the genus Cyanopica.[2]
| Perisoreus | |
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| Canada jay (Perisoreus canadensis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Corvidae |
| Genus: | Perisoreus Bonaparte, 1831 |
| Type species | |
| Corvus canadensis[1] Linnaeus, 1766
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The genus was introduced by the French zoologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1831.[3] The type species was subsequently designated as the Canada jay.[4] The name of the genus may come from the Ancient Greek perisōreuō "to heap up" or "bury beneath". Alternatively it may be from the Latin peri- "very" or "exceedingly" and sorix, a bird of augury dedicated to Saturn.[5]
Species
editThe genus contains three species.[6]
| Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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| Canada jay
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Perisoreus canadensis (Linnaeus, 1766) Nine subspecies
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North America north to the tree line, and in the Rocky Mountains subalpine zone south to New Mexico and Arizona
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Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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| Siberian jay
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Perisoreus infaustus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
north Eurasia
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Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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| Sichuan jay
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Perisoreus internigrans (Thayer & Bangs, 1912) |
China | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
VU
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References
edit- ^ "Corvidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- ^ Ericson, Per G. P.; Jansén, Anna-Lee; Johansson, Ulf S.; Ekman, Jan (2005). "Inter-generic relationships of the crows, jays, magpies and allied groups (Aves: Corvidae) based on nucleotide sequence data" (PDF). Journal of Avian Biology. 36 (3): 222–234. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.493.5531. doi:10.1111/j.0908-8857.2001.03409.x.
- ^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1831). "Saggio di una distribuzione metodica degli Animali Vertebrati di Carlo Luciano Bonaparte principe di Musignano". Giornale Arcadico di Scienze, Lettre ed Arti. 49: 3–77 [42].
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1962). Check-list of birds of the world. Vol. 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 235.
- ^ Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Crows, mudnesters, birds-of-paradise". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Perisoreus canadensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22705783A94035434. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22705783A94035434.en.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Perisoreus infaustus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Perisoreus internigrans". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
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