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Steller's Jay

Cyanocitta stelleri · Family Corvidae

Cyanocitta stelleri

Family Corvidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Corvidae
GBIF occurrence records
2,765,876
Countries and territories with records
12
Steller's Jay
VJAnderson · Steller's Jay DSC1327.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · VJAnderson · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Jonathon Jongsma · Cyanocitta_stelleri_-_Steller's_Jay_-_XC109654.ogg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jonathon Jongsma · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 2,765,876 occurrence records from 12 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (87.1%) and Canada (11.2%); together they account for 98.4% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.22% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Cyanocitta stelleri combines the genus name Cyanocitta with the species epithet stelleri. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Cyanocitta: Cyanocitta cristata.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 132 species of the family Corvidae. This species ranks 11th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Corvus brachyrhynchos. Its record count is 3 times the family average (908,707). The family Corvidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Corvidae

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