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The large, colorful blue jay is a common sight for backyard bird watchers, and its range makes it a regular fixture in backyards and parks all over the entire eastern half the the United States.
Making loud, distinctive whistle-like sounds, if you don’t see a blue jay, you can certainly hear one. But when you see that flash of blue feathers whiz by you, you can sense that you just saw ...
The blue jay is the provincial bird of the province of Prince Edward Island in Canada. [46] The blue jay is also the official mascot for Johns Hopkins University, Elmhurst University, and Creighton University. The blue jay was adopted as the team symbol of the Toronto Blue Jays Major League Baseball team, as well as some of their minor league ...
Blue Jay on a tree branch with autumn leaves around it. Blue Jays are beautiful, yet squawky birds that live mostly in the eastern and central U.S. They are lovers of acorns, seeds and nuts (mine ...
Red: Steller's Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri), black: Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata). Dotted line: irregular wintering, dashed line: irregular breeding. Cyanocitta is a genus of birds in the family Corvidae , a family which contains the crows, jays and magpies.
The northern cardinal is the state bird of seven states, followed by the western meadowlark as the state bird of six states. The District of Columbia designated a district bird in 1938. [4] Of the five inhabited territories of the United States, American Samoa and Puerto Rico are the only ones without territorial birds.
Steller's jay is also a noted mimic: it can imitate the vocalizations of many species of birds, other animals, and sounds of non-animal origin. It often will imitate the calls from birds of prey such as the red-tailed hawk , red-shouldered hawk , and osprey as a warning of danger to others or territorial behavior, causing other birds to seek ...
Accipitridae is a family of birds of prey which includes hawks, eagles, kites, harriers, and Old World vultures. These birds have very large powerful hooked beaks for tearing flesh from their prey, strong legs, powerful talons, and keen eyesight. White-tailed kite, Elanus leucurus; Swallow-tailed kite, Elanoides forficatus