Passeriformes / Corvidae / Cyanocorax

Green Jay

Cyanocorax yncas

IUCN: Least Concern

Data Sources

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

Cyanocorax luxuosus → Cyanocorax yncas

Subspecies lump — GBIF Backbone Taxonomy uses the former name; AviList 2025 uses the current name.

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Cyanocorax yncas centralis

southeastern Mexico (Tabasco) to Belize, eastern Guatemala, and Honduras
Cyanocorax yncas confusus

Chiapas (southern Mexico) and western Guatemala
Cyanocorax yncas cyanodorsalis

central and eastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela
Cyanocorax yncas galeatus

subtropical central Colombia (west of eastern Andes)
Cyanocorax yncas glaucescens

extreme southern Texas (southern USA), Nuevo León and Tamaulipas (northeastern Mexico)
Cyanocorax yncas guatimalensis

coastal cordillera of northern Venezuela
Cyanocorax yncas longirostris

northern Peru (arid upper Marañón Valley)
Cyanocorax yncas luxuosus

San Luis Potosi to northeastern Puebla and central Veracruz (east-central Mexico)
Cyanocorax yncas maya

southeastern Mexico (Yucatan Peninsula) and far southern Quintana Roo
Cyanocorax yncas speciosus

Pacific slope of western Mexico (Nayarit and Jalisco)
Cyanocorax yncas vividus

Colima and Guerrero (southwestern Mexico) to western Guatemala
Cyanocorax yncas yncas

subtropical southwestern Colombia to Ecuador, Peru, and central Bolivia

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.