Inca Jay

Cyanocorax yncas yncas

Classification

Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Corvidae

The Inca jay (Cyanocorax yncas) is a bird species of the New World jays, which is native to the Andes of South America. It is widely known as querrequerre in Spanish, an onomatopoeic name derived from the bird's call. Taxonomy The Inca jay was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1775 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Peru · 10

Sources and credits

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Inca Jay

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