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Eurasian Jay (Gaai)




Eurasian Jay - Garrulus glandarius - (Vlaamse) Gaai
Eurasia and Northwest-Africa.

The following 34 subspecies are being recognized:
Garrulus glandarius hibernicus - Ireland;
Garrulus glandarius rufitergum - Scotland, England, Wales and Northwest-France;
Garrulus glandarius glandarius - North- and Central-Europe to the Ural Mountains;
Garrulus glandarius fasciatus - Iberian Peninsula;
Garrulus glandarius corsicanus - Corsica;
Garrulus glandarius ichnusae - Sardinia;
Garrulus glandarius albipectus - Italy, Sicily and the Dalmatian coast;
Garrulus glandarius graecus - West-Balkan Peninsula including Greece;
Garrulus glandarius ferdinandi - East-Bulgaria and North-Turkey;
Garrulus glandarius cretorum - Crete;
Garrulus glandarius glaszneri - Cyprus;
Garrulus glandarius whitakeri - North-Morocco and Northwest-Algeria;
Garrulus glandarius minor - Central-Morocco and the Atlas Mountains of North-Algeria;
Garrulus glandarius cervicalis - North- and Northeast-Algeria and Tunisia;
Garrulus glandarius samois - Samos (Southeast-Aegean Sea);
Garrulus glandarius anatoliae - West-Turkey to West-Iran and North-Iraq;
Garrulus glandarius iphigenia - Cirmean Peninsula (north coast of the Black Sea);
Garrulus glandarius krynicki - Northeast-Turkey and the Caucasus;
Garrulus glandarius atricapillus - West-Syria, West-Jordan and Israel;
Garrulus glandarius hyrcanus - Southeast-Azerbaijan and North-Iran;
Garrulus glandarius brandtii - South-Siberia, North-Mongolia, Northwest- and Northeast-China, Korea and North-Japan;
Garrulus glandarius kansuensis - Central-China;
Garrulus glandarius pekingensis - East-China;
Garrulus glandarius japonicus - Honshu, Oshima and Kyushu (Central- and South-Japan);
Garrulus glandarius tokugawae - Sado Island (off Honshu in Central-Japan);
Garrulus glandarius orii - Yakushima (South-Japan);
Garrulus glandarius sinensis - North-Myanmar, South- and East-China;
Garrulus glandarius taivanus - Taiwan;
Garrulus glandarius bispecularis - West-Himalayas to West-Nepal;
Garrulus glandarius interstinctus - East-Himalayas;
Garrulus glandarius persaturatus - Northeast-India (South-Assam);
Garrulus glandarius oatesi - Northwest-Myanmar;
Garrulus glandarius haringtoni - West-Myanmar;
Garrulus glandarius leucotis - Central-Myanmar to Central- and South-Indochina.

Of this species there are also Nature Photo's available.


Eurasian JayGarrulus glandarius glandarius
Eurasian Jay
Garrulus glandarius glandarius
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