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Cyanocorax morio · Family Corvidae

Cyanocorax morio

Family Corvidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Corvidae
GBIF occurrence records
435,906
Countries and territories with records
10
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About this species

This species has 435,906 occurrence records from 10 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (38.3%), Belize (23.2%), Mexico (20.5%), Guatemala (7.4%) and Honduras (7.1%); together they account for 96.5% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 0.64% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Cyanocorax morio combines the genus name Cyanocorax with the species epithet morio. The Warbla app catalog lists 19 species of the genus Cyanocorax; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Cyanocorax yncas, Cyanocorax formosus and Cyanocorax violaceus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 132 species of the family Corvidae. This species ranks 24th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Corvus brachyrhynchos. Its record count is 48% of the family average (908,707). The family Corvidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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