Crested Jay
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Bird
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in the Corvidae
Corvidae
Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs and nutcrackers. The common English names used are corvids or the crow family , and there are over 120 species...
family. It is monotypic
Monotypic
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within the genus Platylophus.
It is found in Brunei
Brunei
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, Indonesia
Indonesia
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, Malaysia, Myanmar
Myanmar
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, and Thailand
Thailand
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Its natural habitat
Habitat
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s are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest
Forest
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s and subtropical or tropical moist montane
Montane
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s.
It is threatened by habitat loss.
Cited texts
- BirdLife International 2008. Platylophus galericulatus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 11 Jan 2010.