Crested jayshrike

{{Short description|Species of bird from tropical east Asia}} {{Speciesbox | image = Haubenhäher1.jpg | status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 11 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2019 |title=''Platylophus galericulatus'' |volume=2019 |article-number=e.T22705602A152681152 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T22705602A152681152.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}</ref> | genus = Platylophus | grandparent_authority = Gaudin ''et al.'', 2021 | parent_authority = Swainson, 1832 | display_parents = 3 | species = galericulatus | authority = (Cuvier, 1816) }}

The '''crested jayshrike''' or '''crested shrikejay''' ('''''Platylophus galericulatus'''''), formerly known as the '''crested jay''' (despite not being a true jay), is a species of bird found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand. It is the only member of the genus '''''Platylophus''''' and the family '''Platylophidae'''.

Although traditionally placed in the family Corvidae, its taxonomy has been under contention since the 2000s, as phylogenetic analyses indicate that it is not a true corvid, but rather a basal member of the Corvoidea radiation. Some authorities have suggested that it may belong to the helmetshrikes.<ref name="HBW566">{{Harvnb|dos Anjos|2007|p=566}}</ref> In 2019, eBird and the Clements Checklist renamed the species the '''crested shrikejay''' and placed it in its own family, the Platylophidae, which was undescribed at the time. In 2021, the family Platylophidae was officially described, and in 2022 the International Ornithological Congress reclassified the species into Platylophidae.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Gaudin|first1=Jimmy|last2=Sangster|first2=George|last3=Bruce|first3=Murray D.|date=2021-09-10|title=A family name for the Crested Shrikejay ''Platylophus galericulatus''|journal=Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club|volume=141|issue=3|page=366 |doi=10.25226/bboc.v141i3.2021.a12|s2cid=237456819|issn=0007-1595|doi-access=free |bibcode=2021BBrOC.141..366G }}</ref><ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=August 2024 | title=Jayshrike, shrikes, crows, mudnesters, melampittas, Ifrit, birds-of-paradise | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/bow/crows/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=13 January 2025 }}</ref> However, the family name Lophocittidae, originally described as Lophocitteae in 1855 by Johann Jakob Kaup, may have referred to the crested shrikejay, and if so would take precedence over Platylophidae.<ref name=":0" />

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo.{{cn|date=February 2025}} It is threatened by habitat loss.{{cn|date=February 2025}}

== Vocalization == Its alarm call is distinctive, and has been compared to a machine gun.<ref name=ioc/> [[File:Platylophus galericulatus-20030823.jpg|thumb|left|180px|At Jurong BirdPark, Singapore]]

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===Cited texts=== * {{cite encyclopedia | last = dos Anjos| first = Luiz | editor-last = del Hoyo | editor-first = Josep | editor2-last = Elliott | editor2-first =Andrew | editor3-last = Christie | editor3-first =David | title = Family Corvidae (Crows) | encyclopedia = Handbook of the Birds of the World | volume = 9: Bush-shrikes to Old World Sparrows | publisher = Lynx Editions | location = Barcelona | year = 2007 }}

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