Blue Jay Birds
Blue Jay Identification and Information plus great deals on Blue Jay food, feeders, and bird houses.Watch our featured video: Blue Jay Documentary. Blue Jay's also called Cyanocitta cristata and nicknamed jaybird or bluebird are beautiful song birds native to North America, can be found in most of the Eastern and Western United States and Newfoundland, Canada (Bluejay, 2019).
What do Blue Jays look like?
Their features include a broad rounded tail with blue or dark shades of blue or black on the head and around the face, on the wings and tail with white or light grey under feathers. Blue Jays are part of the crow family.
What do Blue Jays look like?
Their features include a broad rounded tail with blue or dark shades of blue or black on the head and around the face, on the wings and tail with white or light grey under feathers. Blue Jays are part of the crow family.
Behavior-Blue Jays make a large variety of calls that carry long distances. Most calls produced while the jay is perched within a tree. Usually flies across open areas silently, especially during migration. Stuffs food items in throat pouch to cache elsewhere; when eating, holds a seed or nut in feet and pecks it open.
Habitat-Blue Jays tend to live on the edges of the forest. Most often found around oak trees, in forests, woodlots, towns, cities, and parks where there are trees present.
Favorite foods: Blue Jay's favorite food is insects and acorns which is why they are most often found near oak trees"--Cornell University (2). Blue Jays also like to eat seeds, nuts (which they have a tendency to hide much like squirrels, grain and insects.
Mating-These beautiful birds form lifelong monogamous (having only one mate) relationships during their lifetime. The male is dominant, attentive, dedicated and will feed the female while she is nesting (1). Both the male and female build a cup like open nest in trees. A typical clutch has two to seven blueish or light brown spotted eggs. Once hatched the young chicks are altricial (meaning they cannot move around on their own) and are brooded by the mother (female) for 8 to 12 days but the young chicks will usually remain with their parents for one or two months (Blue jay, 2019).
See Video and photos of Blue Jays below.
Habitat-Blue Jays tend to live on the edges of the forest. Most often found around oak trees, in forests, woodlots, towns, cities, and parks where there are trees present.
Favorite foods: Blue Jay's favorite food is insects and acorns which is why they are most often found near oak trees"--Cornell University (2). Blue Jays also like to eat seeds, nuts (which they have a tendency to hide much like squirrels, grain and insects.
Mating-These beautiful birds form lifelong monogamous (having only one mate) relationships during their lifetime. The male is dominant, attentive, dedicated and will feed the female while she is nesting (1). Both the male and female build a cup like open nest in trees. A typical clutch has two to seven blueish or light brown spotted eggs. Once hatched the young chicks are altricial (meaning they cannot move around on their own) and are brooded by the mother (female) for 8 to 12 days but the young chicks will usually remain with their parents for one or two months (Blue jay, 2019).
See Video and photos of Blue Jays below.
Featured Video: Blue Jay-HD Mini-Documentary
Blue jays are intelligent and aggressive birds. They can mimic the words of humans and cries of a hawk. The are so aggressive that they chase other birds away from their food and nests and have even been known to chase off birds that prey on them.
Mating-These beautiful birds form lifelong monagomous (having only one mate) relationships during their lifetime. The male is dominant, attentive, dedicated and will feed the female while she is nesting (1).
Mating-These beautiful birds form lifelong monagomous (having only one mate) relationships during their lifetime. The male is dominant, attentive, dedicated and will feed the female while she is nesting (1).
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References:
1. Video: Blue Jay-HD Mini-Documentary. Retrieved on Oct. 04, 2016 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXbJpi3EIoY
2. Blue Jay. All About Birds. The Cornell Lab of Opthimology. Cornell University. Retrieved Oct. 04, 2016. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Blue_Jay/id
3. Blue jay. (2019). En.wikipedia.org. Retrieved 25 January 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_jay
4. Bluejay photo by Mathew Schwartz (@cadop) on Unsplash. (2019). Unsplash.com. Retrieved 25 January 2019, from https://unsplash.com/photos/_ENhCkhcJRg
5. Winter Blue Jay photo by Amy Reed (@amybethreed) on Unsplash. (2019). Unsplash.com. Retrieved 25 January 2019, from https://unsplash.com/photos/gXG0-YAAFxQ
6. BlueBird 1 photo by Mariko margetson (@mariko_) on Unsplash. (2019). Unsplash.com. Retrieved 25 January 2019, from https://unsplash.com/photos/VNN1HAgGICQ
1. Video: Blue Jay-HD Mini-Documentary. Retrieved on Oct. 04, 2016 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXbJpi3EIoY
2. Blue Jay. All About Birds. The Cornell Lab of Opthimology. Cornell University. Retrieved Oct. 04, 2016. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Blue_Jay/id
3. Blue jay. (2019). En.wikipedia.org. Retrieved 25 January 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_jay
4. Bluejay photo by Mathew Schwartz (@cadop) on Unsplash. (2019). Unsplash.com. Retrieved 25 January 2019, from https://unsplash.com/photos/_ENhCkhcJRg
5. Winter Blue Jay photo by Amy Reed (@amybethreed) on Unsplash. (2019). Unsplash.com. Retrieved 25 January 2019, from https://unsplash.com/photos/gXG0-YAAFxQ
6. BlueBird 1 photo by Mariko margetson (@mariko_) on Unsplash. (2019). Unsplash.com. Retrieved 25 January 2019, from https://unsplash.com/photos/VNN1HAgGICQ