Calocitta colliei
In 3 days <5%
The black-throated magpie-jay (Cyanocorax colliei) is a strikingly long-tailed magpie-jay of northwestern Mexico. The black-throated magpie-jay was formally described in 1829 by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors from a specimen collected at San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico. The specimen had been obtained by members of an expedition to explore the western coast of North America captained by Frederick William Beechey on HMS Blossom. Vigors coined the binomial name Pica colleriei, with the specific epithet chosen to honour Alexander Collie, the surgeon on board the Blossom, who had presented the specimen to the Zoological Society of London. The black-throated magpie-jay and the white-throated magpie-jay were formerly placed in their own genus Calocitta. When molecular phylogenetic studies found that the genus Cyanocorax was paraphyletic relative to Calocitta, the two species were subsumed into Cyanocorax to resolve the paraphyly. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
The black-throated magpie-jay hybridizes in Jalisco with the white-throated magpie jay (C. formosus), with which it forms a superspecies. This species is 58.5 to 76.5... Wikipedia →
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| 1 | San Diego | 🇺🇸 United States |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Collie's Magpie-Jay sighting in San Diego on a given day, based on 32 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 351st most-seen of the 386 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, if each day is a fresh chance.
Any time of year
In every month with enough records, under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Collie's Magpie-Jay in San Diego on a given day, so our monthly data shows no clear season.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Collie's Magpie-Jay sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only San Diego, in our data
San Diego is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Collie's Magpie-Jay sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Corvidae
The closest relatives of the Collie's Magpie-Jay that you can see in San Diego (family Corvidae, Crows, Jays, and Magpies) are American Crow (about 80%), Common Raven (about 30%) and California Scrub-Jay (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Collie's Magpie-Jay is recorded against all the birds logged in San Diego (32 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
