Steller's Jay

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Corvidae

Genus

Cyanocitta

eBird Code

stejay

Subspecies (13)

• Cyanocitta stelleri annectens

  interior British Columbia to northeastern Oregon and northwestern Wyoming

• Cyanocitta stelleri azteca

  mountains of central Mexico (México, Morelos, Puebla, and west-central Veracruz)

• Cyanocitta stelleri carbonacea

  coastal California (Marin and Contra Costa to Monterey counties)

• Cyanocitta stelleri carlottae

  Haida Gwaii (British Columbia)

• Cyanocitta stelleri coronata

  southwestern, east-central, and southern Mexico and western Guatemala

• Cyanocitta stelleri diademata

  Sierra Madre Occidental (southeastern Sonora to Chihuahua and Jalisco)

• Cyanocitta stelleri frontalis

  central Oregon to southern California; winters to far northern Baja California

• Cyanocitta stelleri macrolopha

  montane west-central USA (eastern Nevada to southwestern South Dakota, southward to Arizona, New Mexico, and far western Texas) and northern Mexico

• Cyanocitta stelleri phillipsi

  central Mexico (San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato, and Hidalgo)

• Cyanocitta stelleri purpurea

  southwestern Mexico (highlands of western and central Michoacán)

• Cyanocitta stelleri restricta

  southern Mexico (highlands of Oaxaca)

• Cyanocitta stelleri stelleri

  southern Alaska and coastal British Columbia to northwestern Oregon

• Cyanocitta stelleri suavis

  highlands of western Honduras to central Nicaragua