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Cyanocitta cristata · Family Corvidae
Cyanocitta cristata
Family Corvidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Corvidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 24,092,945
- Countries and territories with records
- 13
About this species
This species has 24,092,945 occurrence records from 13 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (85.6%) and Canada (14.4%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 1.9% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Cyanocitta cristata combines the genus name Cyanocitta with the species epithet cristata. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Cyanocitta: Cyanocitta stelleri.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 132 species of the family Corvidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Corvus brachyrhynchos. Its record count is 26.5 times the family average (908,707). The family Corvidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.