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The Canada jay (Perisoreus canadensis), also known as the grey jay, gray jay, camp robber, or whisky jack, is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae. It is found in boreal forests of North America north to the tree line , and in the Rocky Mountains subalpine zone south to New Mexico and Arizona .
A jay is a member of a number of species of medium-sized, usually colorful and noisy, passerine birds in the crow family, Corvidae. The evolutionary relationships between the jays and the magpies are rather complex.
Singing of Eurasian jay, Paris Calls of Eurasian jay, Crimea. The most characteristic call is a harsh, rasping screech that is used upon sighting various predators and as an advertising call. The jay is well known for its mimicry, often sounding so like a different species that it is difficult to distinguish its true identity unless the bird is ...
The Mexican jay is a medium-large (~120 g) passerine similar in size to most other jays, with a blue head, blue-gray mantle, blue wings and tail, and pale gray breast and underparts. The sexes are morphologically similar, and juveniles differ only in having less blue coloration and, in some populations, a pink/pale (instead of black) bill that ...
The pinyon jay is a bluish-grey coloured bird with deeper head colouring and whitish throat with black bill, legs and feet.Roughly intermediate between the blue jay and the Eurasian jay in size, its overall proportions are similar to Clark's nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) and this can be seen as convergent evolution, as both birds fill similar ecological niches.
Feathers on a Blue Jay are mostly blue, with a touch of white on the tip, while a black horizontal pattern breaks up the blue a bit, depending on where the feather came off of the bird.
Eurasian jay. Garrulus glandarius (Linnaeus, 1758) Western Europe and north-western Africa to the Indian subcontinent: Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Black-headed jay. Garrulus lanceolatus Vigors, 1830: Eastern Afghanistan east the Himalayas, from India to Nepal and Bhutan Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Lidth's jay. Garrulus lidthi (Bonaparte, 1850) Japan ...
Living in most areas of the United States, from Florida to Canada, blue jays like to reside in pine forests, but they will venture out to feast from bird feeders, cool off in a bird bath, or take ...