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Steller's Jay - Cyanocitta stelleri - Stellers Gaai
Western North- and Central-America.
The following 16 subspecies are being recognised:
Cyanocitta stelleri stelleri - South-Alaska and coastal British Columbia to Northwest-Oregon;
Cyanocitta stelleri carlottae - Queen Charlotte Islands (British Columbia);
Cyanocitta stelleri frontalis - Central-Oregon to South-California. Winters to extreme North-Baja;
Cyanocitta stelleri carbonacea - Coastal California (Marin and Contra Costa to Monterey counties);
Cyanocitta stelleri annectens - Interior British Columbia to Northeast-Oregon and Northwest-Wyoming;
Cyanocitta stelleri macrolopha - Rocky Mountains of Nevada and Utah to North-Sonora;
Cyanocitta stelleri diademata - Sierra Madre Occidental (Southeast-Sonora to Chihuahua and Jalisco);
Cyanocitta stelleri philippsi - Central-Mexico (San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato and Hidalgo);
Cyanocitta stelleri coronata - Highlands of Central-Mexico (San Luis Potosí to North-Puebla);
Cyanocitta stelleri purpurea - Southwest-Mexico (highlands of West- and Central-Michoacán);
Cyanocitta stelleri azteca - Mountains of Central-Mexico (México, Morelos, Puebla and Westcentral-Veracruz);
Cyanocitta stelleri teotepecensis - Mountains of South-Mexico (Central- and South-Guerrero);
Cyanocitta stelleri restricta - South-Mexico (highlands of Oaxaca);
Cyanocitta stelleri ridgwayi - Highlands of South-Mexico (Chiapas) to Guatemala and El Salvador;
Cyanocitta stelleri lazula - Highlands of El Salvador;
Cyanocitta stelleri suavis - Highlands of West-Honduras to Central-Nicaragua.
Of this species there are no Zoo Photo's available.