Crow and jay genera are the genera of the passerine family Corvidae, which Animal Diversity Web labels crows and jays and lists with 24 genera. In the GBIF backbone, Corvus is by far the largest with about 196 descendant taxa, followed by Cyanocorax with about 63, Garrulus with 55, Aphelocoma with 39, Dendrocitta with 29, Pica, Perisoreus and Cyanocitta with 26 each, Cyanolyca with 23 and Urocissa with 20.
All Crow and Jay Genera (Corvidae)
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Animal Diversity Web: Corvidae
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Family Corvidae (crows and jays)
GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Corvidae
GBIF SecretariatChildren of Corvidae
"canonicalName":"Corvus","vernacularName":"crow","authorship":"Linnaeus, 1758","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ","numDescendants":196
Children of Corvidae: Cyanocorax
"canonicalName":"Cyanocorax","vernacularName":"Tufted Jays","authorship":"F.Boie, 1826","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Boie, Friedrich. 1826. Generalübersicht der ornithologischen Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen. Isis von Oken 1826(Bd.19: Heft.10): col.969-982.","numDescendants":63
Children of Corvidae: Garrulus
"canonicalName":"Garrulus","vernacularName":"jays","authorship":"Brisson, 1760","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Ornithologie 1 p. 30","numDescendants":55
Children of Corvidae: Aphelocoma
"canonicalName":"Aphelocoma","vernacularName":"scrub jay","authorship":"Cabanis, 1851","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"in Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein., 1, 1850-51","numDescendants":39
Children of Corvidae: Dendrocitta
"canonicalName":"Dendrocitta","vernacularName":"Typical Treepies","authorship":"Gould, 1833","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1","numDescendants":29
Children of Corvidae: Pica
"canonicalName":"Pica","vernacularName":"Magpies","authorship":"Brisson, 1760","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Ornithologie 1 p. 30","numDescendants":26
Children of Corvidae: Perisoreus
"canonicalName":"Perisoreus","vernacularName":"jay","authorship":"Bonaparte, 1831","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"G. Arcad. Sci. Lett. Arti 49 p. 42","numDescendants":26
Children of Corvidae: Cyanocitta
"canonicalName":"Cyanocitta","vernacularName":"jay","authorship":"Strickland, 1845","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 15","numDescendants":26
Children of Corvidae: Cyanolyca
"canonicalName":"Cyanolyca","vernacularName":"Cyanolyca Jays","authorship":"Cabanis, 1851","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"in Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein., 1, 1850-51","numDescendants":23
Children of Corvidae: Urocissa
"canonicalName":"Urocissa","vernacularName":"Blue Magpies","authorship":"Cabanis, 1850","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Mus. Heineanum, 1, 1850","numDescendants":20
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Corvus is a widely distributed genus of passerine birds ranging from medium-sized to large-sized in the family Corvidae.
Pica (Wikipedia)
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Pica or PICA may refer to:
Wikipedia: Cyanocitta
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Cyanocitta is a genus of birds in the family Corvidae, a family which contains the crows, jays, and magpies.
Wikipedia: Garrulus
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Garrulus is a genus of Old World jays, passerine birds in the family Corvidae.
Chough (Wikipedia)
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A chough ( CHUF) is any of two species of passerine birds that constitute the genus Pyrrhocorax of the Corvidae (crow) family.
Crypsirina (Wikipedia)
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Crypsirina is a small genus of long-tailed passerine birds in the crow and jay family, Corvidae.
Dendrocitta (Wikipedia)
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Dendrocitta is a genus of long-tailed passerine birds in the crow and jay family, Corvidae.
Ratchet-tailed treepie (Wikipedia)
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The ratchet-tailed treepie (Temnurus temnurus) is a species of bird in the crow and jay family Corvidae.
Platysmurus (Wikipedia)
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Platysmurus is a genus of treepie in the family Corvidae.
Cissa (Wikipedia)
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Cissa may refer to:
Urocissa (Wikipedia)
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Urocissa is a genus of birds in the Corvidae, a family that contains the crows, jays, and magpies.
Cyanopica (Wikipedia)
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Cyanopica is a small genus of magpies in the family Corvidae.
Perisoreus (Wikipedia)
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The genus Perisoreus is a very small genus of jays from the Boreal regions of North America and Eurasia from Scandinavia to the Asian seaboard.
Cyanolyca (Wikipedia)
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Cyanolyca is a genus of small jays found in humid highland forests in southern Mexico, Central America and the Andes in South America.
Aphelocoma (Wikipedia)
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Aphelocoma is a genus of passerine birds in the family Corvidae that includes the scrub jays and their relatives.
Pinyon jay (Wikipedia)
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The pinyon jay (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus) is a species of jay, and is the only member of the genus Gymnorhinus.
Ground jay (Wikipedia)
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The ground jays or ground choughs belong to a distinct group of the passerine order of birds in the genus Podoces of the crow family Corvidae.
Nutcracker (bird) (Wikipedia)
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The nutcrackers (Nucifraga) are a genus of four species of passerine bird, in the family Corvidae, related to the jays and crows.
Jackdaw (Wikipedia)
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Jackdaws are two species of bird in the genus Coloeus closely related to, but generally smaller than, crows and ravens (Corvus).
Piapiac (Wikipedia)
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The piapiac (Ptilostomus afer) is an African bird in the crow family, and is the only member of the genus Ptilostomus.
Ethiopian bushcrow (Wikipedia)
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The Ethiopian bushcrow (Zavattariornis stresemanni), also known as the Stresemann's bushcrow, Abyssinian pie, bush crow, or by its generic name Zavattariornis, is a rather starling-like bird, which is a member of the crow family, Corvidae.
Cyanocorax (Wikipedia)
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Cyanocorax is a genus of New World jays, passerine birds in the family Corvidae.
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