Garrulus glandarius  (Linnaeus, 1758)

Eurasian Jay

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Kingdom: Animalia
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Corvidae
Genus: Garrulus
Species: glandarius

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• Common names: Eurasian Jay
• Thai names: นกปีกลายสก๊อต
• Distribution: ​​(by ssp.) [1] [3]
  Garrulus glandarius glandarius: N and central Europe
  Garrulus glandarius hibernicus: Ireland
  Garrulus glandarius rufitergum: S Scotland, England, Wales and n France
  Garrulus glandarius fasciatus (fasciatus): Southern, central and eastern Spain
  Garrulus glandarius fasciatus (lusitanicus): N Portugal and n Spain
  Garrulus glandarius corsicanus: Corsica
  Garrulus glandarius ichnusae: Sardinia
  Garrulus glandarius albipectus (albipectus): Italy, coastal Balkans from Croatia to Albania, and Ionian Islands (western Greece)
  Garrulus glandarius albipectus (jordansi): Sicily
  Garrulus glandarius graecus: Kosovo and southern Serbia to southern Bulgaria and mainland Greece
  Garrulus glandarius ferdinandi: SE Bulgaria to n Turkey (Istranca Mountains)
  Garrulus glandarius cretorum: Crete
  Garrulus glandarius glaszneri: Cyprus
  Garrulus glandarius cervicalis: NE Algeria and Tunisia
  Garrulus glandarius minor: Atlas Mountains of Morocco and Algeria
  Garrulus glandarius whitakeri: N Morocco and nw Algeria
  Garrulus glandarius atricapillus: Lebanon to s Syria, Israel and w Jordan
  Garrulus glandarius samios: Samos and Ikaria region of e Aegean Sea
  Garrulus glandarius anatoliae: W Turkey and e Aegean Sea to w Asia Minor, n Iraq and sw Iran
  Garrulus glandarius iphigenia: Crimean Peninsula
  Garrulus glandarius krynicki: Caucasus, Transcaucasia and n Asia Minor
  Garrulus glandarius hyrcanus: N Iran (Elzburg Mountains and south shore of Caspian Sea)
  Garrulus glandarius brandtii (brandtii): Ural Mountains to Siberia, Lake Baikal and Altai and Sayan mts.
  Garrulus glandarius brandtii (bambergi): Mongolia to Sakhalin, s Kuril Islands, Hokkaido and Korea
  Garrulus glandarius brandtii (sewerzowii): Scandinavia and w Russia
  Garrulus glandarius kansuensis: Kazakhstan (e Tien Shan) and w China (Gansu)
  Garrulus glandarius pekingensis: N China (Liaoning) and sw Manchuria
  Garrulus glandarius japonicus: Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, northern Kyushu, and Tsushima)
  Garrulus glandarius namiyei: Tsushima Islands (sw Japan)
  Garrulus glandarius tokugawae: Sado I. (Japan)
  Garrulus glandarius hiugaensis: Japan (Izu Peninsula of Honshu, southern Kyushu, and Kagoshima)
  Garrulus glandarius orii: Yakushima I. (Ryukyu Islands)
  Garrulus glandarius bispecularis: Himalayas (Kashmir to Nepal)
  Garrulus glandarius sinensis: W China to n Yunnan and ne Myanmar
  Garrulus glandarius taivanus: Taiwan
  Garrulus glandarius interstinctus: E Himalayas and se Tibet
  Garrulus glandarius persaturatus: N India (Khasi Hills of Assam)
  Garrulus glandarius oatesi: Central Myanmar (upper Chindwin and Chin Hills)
  Garrulus glandarius leucotis: E Myanmar to s Yunnan, Thailand to central Vietnam
  Garrulus glandarius haringtoni: Myanmar (Mt. Victoria in s Chin Hills)
• IUCN Red List: Least Concern. Population stable. ​[2]
• Image locations: Chaiyaphum (Nam Nao N.P.)
• Additional notes: 

Image locations

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Images of Garrulus glandarius from Thailand.

Eurasian Jay Garrulus glandarius leucotis (Linnaeus, 1758) Nam Nao N.P. Chaiyaphum Thailand December

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References:
​[1] Avibase - accessed 05 July 2020.

[2] BirdLife International. 2017. Garrulus glandarius (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T103723684A118779004. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T103723684A118779004.en. Downloaded on 05 July 2020.​​
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​​[3] Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ on 03 August 2020.