[GREEN JAY]

Cyanocorax yncas

Status:  No accepted records.

Taxonomy:  Pyle (1997) recognized 12 subspecies, but a case has been made, but yet to be considered by AOS (Gill et al 2022) for splitting five South American subspecies as Inca Jay (C. yncas) with the remaining seven Central American subspecies as Green Jay (C. luxuosus); only one of the latter reaches the USA: glaucescens, resident in south Texas (Pyle 1997).

Comments:  The only report is a mention by Ducey (1989), who considered the report questionable, of its occurrence in the Panhandle along the Niobrara River in the period 1921-1960; no other details were given. This species is not known to wander from its south Texas range; the northernmost report is from Midland County in northwestern Texas.  The report cited by Ducey is certainly an error.

Abbreviation

AOS: American Ornithological Society

Literature Cited

Ducey, J.E. 1989. Birds of the Niobrara River valley, Nebraska. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 27: 37-60.

Gill, F., D. Donsker, and P. Rasmussen (Eds). 2022. IOC World Bird List (v 12.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.12.2.  http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.

Pyle, P. 1997. Identification Guide to North American Birds. Part I, Columbidae to Ploceidae. Slate Creek Press, Bolinas, California, USA.

Recommended Citation

Silcock, W.R., and J.G. Jorgensen. 2023.  Green Jay (Cyanocorax yncas). In Birds of Nebraska — Online. www.BirdsofNebraska.org

Birds of Nebraska – Online

Updated 18 Nov 2023