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Cyanocorax yncas · Family Corvidae
Cyanocorax yncas
Family Corvidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Corvidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 465,520
- Countries and territories with records
- 19
About this species
This species has 465,520 occurrence records from 19 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (55.8%), Mexico (15.4%), Colombia (13.2%), Ecuador (5.8%) and Belize (3.1%); together they account for 93.4% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.023% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Cyanocorax yncas combines the genus name Cyanocorax with the species epithet yncas. The Warbla app catalog lists 19 species of the genus Cyanocorax; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Cyanocorax morio, Cyanocorax formosus and Cyanocorax violaceus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 132 species of the family Corvidae. This species ranks 22nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Corvus brachyrhynchos. Its record count is 51.2% of the family average (908,707). The family Corvidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.