Crested jayshrike

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Crested jayshrike

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Superfamily: Corvoidea
Family: Platylophidae
Gaudin et al., 2021
Genus: Platylophus
Swainson, 1832
Species:
P. galericulatus
Binomial name
Platylophus galericulatus
(Cuvier, 1816)

The crested jayshrike or crested shrikejay (Platylophus galericulatus), formerly known as the crested jay (despite not being a true jay), is a species of bird found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand. It is the only member of the genus Platylophus and the family Platylophidae.

Although traditionally placed in the family

helmetshrikes.[2] In 2019, eBird and the Clements Checklist renamed the species the crested shrikejay and placed it in its own family, the Platylophidae, which was undescribed at the time. In 2021, the family Platylophidae was officially described, and in 2022 the International Ornithological Congress reclassified the species into Platylophidae.[3][4] However, the family name Lophocittidae, originally described as Lophocitteae in 1855 by Johann Jakob Kaup, may have referred to the crested shrikejay, and if so would take precedence over Platylophidae.[3][5]

Its natural

montane forest
of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. It is threatened by
habitat loss
.

Vocalization

Its alarm call is distinctive, and has been compared to a machine gun.

Jurong BirdPark
, Singapore

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Platylophus galericulatus.
  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T22705602A152681152.en
    . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ dos Anjos 2007, p. 566
  3. ^
    S2CID 237456819
    .
  4. ^
    S2CID 246050277
    . Retrieved 2022-01-29.
  5. ^ "Crested Jay". BirdForum. Retrieved 2022-01-29.

Cited texts

  • dos Anjos, Luiz (2007). "Family Corvidae (Crows)". In del Hoyo, Josep; Elliott, Andrew; Christie, David (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 9: Bush-shrikes to Old World Sparrows. Barcelona: Lynx Editions.
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