page_title: List of birds of Kansas
section_title: Crows, jays, and magpies
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Kansas / Crows, jays, and magpies
caption_attribution_description: Couple of common ravens (corvus corax) in Arizona.
context_page_description: This list of birds of Kansas includes species documented in the U.S. state of Kansas and accepted by the Kansas Ornithological Society. As of March 2020, there are 479 species included in the official list. Of them, 70 are classed as accidental, 12 are classed as hypothetical, and five have been introduced to North America. In addition to the 479, two species are extinct and one has been extirpated.
  Only birds that are considered to have established, self-sustaining, wild populations in Kansas are included on this list. This means that birds that are considered probable escapees, although they may have been sighted flying free in Kansas, are not included.
  This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society. Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
  These tags are used to annotate some species:
  Accidental – "Fewer than ten Kansas records" per the KOS
  Extinct – a recent species that no longer exists
context_section_description: Order: Passeriformes   Family: Corvidae
  The family Corvidae includes crows, ravens, jays, choughs, magpies, treepies, nutcrackers, and ground jays. Corvids are above average in size among the Passeriformes, and some of the larger species show high levels of intelligence.
  Pinyon jay, Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus
  Steller's jay, Cyanocitta stelleri
  Blue jay, Cyanocitta cristata
  Woodhouse's scrub-jay, Aphelocoma woodhouseii
  Mexican jay, Aphelocoma ultramarina (A)
  Clark's nutcracker, Nucifraga columbiana
  Black-billed magpie, Pica hudsonia
  American crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos
  Fish crow, Corvus ossifragus
  Chihuahuan raven, Corvus cryptoleucus
  Common raven, Corvus corax
caption: Common ravens
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