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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.
Steller's jay has a more slender bill and longer legs than the blue jay and, in northern populations, has a much more pronounced crest. [ 9 ] : 69 [ 10 ] It is also somewhat larger. The head is blackish-brown, black, or dark blue, depending on the subspecies of the bird, with lighter streaks on the forehead.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The Blue Jays, a short-lived (1961–62) Los Angeles based doo wop quartet; Bluejay Books, an independent publishing house run by James Frenkel; Blue Jay, a 2016 film starring Mark Duplass and Sarah Paulson; Blue Jays, a 1975 album by Justin Hayward and John Lodge
Animals: Amphibians · Arachnids · Birds · Cnidaria · Crustaceans · Echinoderms · Fish · Insects · Mammals · Molluscs · Reptiles · Others Anchorage White Raven , by Lisa Hupp/ USFWS Brown-banded antpitta , by Charlesjsharp