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title: "Curl-crested Jay"
description: "Cyanocorax cristatellus — Uccelli. The curl-crested jay (Cyanocorax cristatellus) is a species of jay native to South America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/curl-crested-jay
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Curl-crested Jay

> Cyanocorax cristatellus — Uccelli. The curl-crested jay (Cyanocorax cristatellus) is a species of jay native to South America.

- Scientific name: *Cyanocorax cristatellus*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `savanna` (Savana)
- iNaturalist observations: 1561
- Wikidata: [Q1433700](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1433700)
- iNaturalist taxon: [8480](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/8480)

## Names

- en: Curl-crested Jay
- de: Krauskopfblaurabe
- es: Urraca de cresta rizada
- fr: Geai à plumet
- nl: Kroeskopgaai
- pl: Modrowronka czołoczuba

## Countries with the most observations

BR (1493), PY (8), BO (5)

## Summary

The curl-crested jay (Cyanocorax cristatellus) is a species of jay native to South America.
This New World jay is a beautiful and large (35 cm/14 in overall) bird with predominantly dark blue back, an almost black head and neck, and snow-white chest and underparts. They have a pronounced curled crest rising from just behind the beak; the crest is on average larger in males, but the sexes are generally quite similar.
The voice is a loud, gray, graa, gray-gray-gray, sometimes repeated 8-10 times. They sound similar to crow.

Curl-crested jays are native to the cerrados of central and southern and the caatinga of north…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curl-crested_jay

## Photo

![Curl-crested Jay](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/curl-crested-jay/medium.jpg)

Photo: NINA WENÓLI · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/142107179

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/curl-crested-jay?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).