Canada Jay

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Corvidae

Genus

Perisoreus

eBird Code

gryjay

Subspecies (9)

• Perisoreus canadensis albescens

  western Canada east of the Rocky Mountains from northeastern British Columbia and northwestern Alberta southward to north-central USA (Black Hills, western South Dakota)

• Perisoreus canadensis bicolor

  Rocky Mountains from southeastern British Columbia and southwestern Alberta (Canada) southward to eastern Washington, central Idaho, and western Montana (USA)

• Perisoreus canadensis canadensis

  northeastern Alaska eastward to eastern Canada and northeastern USA

• Perisoreus canadensis capitalis

  Rocky Mountains of western USA (central Idaho and southern Montana to northern New Mexico, also disjunctly in east-central Arizona)

• Perisoreus canadensis griseus

  southwestern British Columbia and Vancouver Island to northeastern California

• Perisoreus canadensis nigricapillus

  northeastern Quebec and Labrador (eastern Canada)

• Perisoreus canadensis obscurus

  coastal northwestern USA (Washington to northwestern California)

• Perisoreus canadensis pacificus

  central Alaska to coastal west-central Canada

• Perisoreus canadensis sanfordi

  Newfoundland (eastern Canada)