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Steller's jay, the Glossary

Steller's jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) is a bird native to western North America and the mountains of Central America, closely related to the blue jay (C. cristata) found in eastern North America.^[1]

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Provincial symbols of British Columbia

Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge

The Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (often shortened to Alaska Maritime or AMNWR) is a United States National Wildlife Refuge comprising 2,400 islands, headlands, rocks, islets, spires and reefs in Alaska, with a total area of, of which is wilderness.

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Allan Robert Phillips

Allan Robert Phillips (October 25, 1914 – January 26, 1996) was an American ornithologist.

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Audubon

The National Audubon Society (Audubon) is an American non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation of birds and their habitats.

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Binomial nomenclature

In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.

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Blue jay

The blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) is a passerine bird in the family Corvidae, native to eastern North America. Steller's jay and blue jay are Cyanocitta.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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Canada jay

The Canada jay (Perisoreus canadensis), also known as the gray jay, grey jay, camp robber, or whisky jack, is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Central America

Central America is a subregion of North America.

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Charles Lucien Bonaparte

Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (24 May 1803 – 29 July 1857) was a French naturalist and ornithologist, and a nephew of Napoleon.

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Chihuahua (state)

Chihuahua, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua (Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of Mexico.

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Chough

There are two species of passerine birds commonly called chough that constitute the genus Pyrrhocorax of the Corvidae (crow) family of birds.

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Coast Mountains

The Coast Mountains (La chaîne Côtière) are a major mountain range in the Pacific Coast Ranges of western North America, extending from southwestern Yukon through the Alaska Panhandle and virtually all of the Coast of British Columbia south to the Fraser River.

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Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Conifer

Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms.

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Continental Divide of the Americas

The Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Western Divide or simply the Continental Divide) is the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas.

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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a member-supported unit of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, which studies birds and other wildlife.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.

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Corvidae

Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, magpies, jackdaws, jays, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers.

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Corvus

Corvus is a widely distributed genus of passerine birds ranging from medium-sized to large-sized in the family Corvidae.

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Crest (feathers)

The crest is a prominent feature exhibited by several bird and other dinosaur species on their heads.

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Crow

A crow (pronounced) is a bird of the genus Corvus, or more broadly, a synonym for all of Corvus.

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Cyanocitta

Cyanocitta is a genus of birds in the family Corvidae, a family which contains the crows, jays and magpies.

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El Salvador

El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America.

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Flagstaff, Arizona

Flagstaff is the county seat of Coconino County, Arizona, in the southwestern United States.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Georg Wilhelm Steller

Georg Wilhelm Steller (10 March 1709 – 14 November 1746) was a German-born naturalist and explorer who contributed to the fields of biology, zoology, and ethnography.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Government of British Columbia

The Government of British Columbia (Gouvernement de la Colombie-Britannique) is the body responsible for the administration of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Guatemala

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America.

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Haida Gwaii

Haida Gwaii (X̱aaydag̱a Gwaay.yaay / X̱aayda gwaay, literally "Islands of the Haida people"), also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, is an archipelago located between off the northern Pacific coast of Canada.

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Honduras

Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America.

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Hugh Edwin Strickland

Hugh Edwin Strickland (2 March 1811 – 14 September 1853) was an English geologist, ornithologist, naturalist and systematist.

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Jackdaw

Jackdaws are two species of bird in the genus Coloeus closely related to, but generally smaller than, crows and ravens (Corvus).

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Jalisco

Jalisco, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco (Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (– 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.

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Jay

A jay is a member of a number of species of medium-sized, usually colorful and noisy, passerine birds in the crow family, Corvidae.

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Johann Friedrich Gmelin

Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) was a German naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist.

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John Latham (ornithologist)

John Latham (27 June 1740 – 4 February 1837) was an English physician, naturalist and author.

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John Warren Aldrich

John Warren Aldrich (February 23, 1906 – May 3, 1995) was an American ornithologist.

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Joseph Banks

Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, (19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences.

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Joseph Grinnell

Joseph Grinnell (February 27, 1877 – May 29, 1939) was an American field biologist and zoologist.

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List of Canadian provincial and territorial symbols

This is a list of the symbols of the provinces and territories of Canada.

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Ludlow Griscom

Ludlow Griscom (June 17, 1890 – May 28, 1959) was an American ornithologist known as a pioneer in field ornithology.

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Mabel Osgood Wright

Mabel Osgood Wright (January 26, 1859 – July 16, 1934) was an American writer and conservationist.

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Magpie

Magpies are birds of various species of the family Corvidae.

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Marbled murrelet

The marbled murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) is a small seabird from the North Pacific. Steller's jay and marbled murrelet are taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Michoacán

Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo (Purépecha: P'uɽempo), officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo (Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo), is one of the 31 states which, together with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Monogamy in animals

Monogamous pairing in animals refers to the natural history of mating systems in which species pair bond to raise offspring.

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Nicaragua

Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising.

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Nootka Sound

Nootka Sound (Baie de Nootka) is a sound of the Pacific Ocean on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island, in the Pacific Northwest, historically known as King George's Sound.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Northern goshawk

The northern goshawk has been split into two species based on significant morphological and genetic differences.

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Nutcracker (bird)

The nutcrackers (Nucifraga) are a genus of three species of passerine bird, in the family Corvidae, related to the jays and crows.

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Oaxaca

Oaxaca (also,, from Huāxyacac), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca (Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the Federative Entities of the United Mexican States.

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Ornithology (journal)

Ornithology, formerly The Auk and The Auk: Ornithological Advances, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal and the official publication of the American Ornithological Society (AOS).

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Osprey

The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), historically known as sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range.

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Pacific coast

Pacific coast may be used to reference any coastline that borders the Pacific Ocean.

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Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in Western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east.

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Passerine

A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes (from Latin passer 'sparrow' and formis '-shaped') which includes more than half of all bird species.

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Raven

A raven is any of several larger-bodied passerine bird species in the genus Corvus.

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Red-shouldered hawk

The red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus) is a medium-sized buteo. Steller's jay and red-shouldered hawk are birds described in 1788, birds of Mexico and taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin.

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Red-tailed hawk

The red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a bird of prey that breeds throughout most of North America, from the interior of Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies. Steller's jay and red-tailed hawk are birds described in 1788 and taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin.

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Robert Ridgway

Robert Ridgway (July 2, 1850 – March 25, 1929) was an American ornithologist specializing in systematics.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America.

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Rook (bird)

The rook (Corvus frugilegus) is a member of the family Corvidae in the passerine order of birds.

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San Luis Potosí

San Luis Potosí, officially the Free and Sovereign State of San Luis Potosí (Estado Libre y Soberano de San Luis Potosí), is one of the 32 states which compose the Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Sharp-shinned hawk

The sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus) or northern sharp-shinned hawk, commonly known as a sharpie, is a small hawk, with males being the smallest hawks in the United States and Canada, but with the species averaging larger than some Neotropical species, such as the tiny hawk.

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Sonora

Sonora, officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora (Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Southeast Alaska

Southeast Alaska, often abbreviated to southeast or southeastern, and sometimes called the Alaska(n) panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Alaska, bordered to the east and north by the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia (and a small part of Yukon).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steller's_jay

Also known as Blue-fronted jay, Cyanocitta stelleri, Cyanositta stelleri, Long-crested jay, Mountain Jay, Pine jay, Stellar jay, Stellar's Jay, Stellars jay, Steller jay, Stellers Jay.

, Monogamy in animals, Nicaragua, Nootka Sound, North America, Northern goshawk, Nutcracker (bird), Oaxaca, Ornithology (journal), Osprey, Pacific coast, Pacific Northwest, Passerine, Raven, Red-shouldered hawk, Red-tailed hawk, Robert Ridgway, Rocky Mountains, Rook (bird), San Luis Potosí, Sharp-shinned hawk, Sonora, Southeast Alaska, Species description, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Subspecies, Systema Naturae, Texas A&M University, Third voyage of James Cook, Treepie, Vancouver Island, William John Swainson, Yukon.

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Cyanocitta

Provincial symbols of British Columbia

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