Blue Jay I

Blue Jay I

1. On bottom it is white or light gray, and on top it is black, blue, and white.

2. This is an attractive Oxford-and-Cambridge blue bird about the size of a pigeon. They are believed to be near relatives of bee-eaters and kingfishers.

3. Blue jay is very unique in its flight style. It has a variety of loud raucous calls and is particularly noisy and demonstrative during its aerial courtship display. 

4. During courtship the male exhibits a series of attractive aerobatics like circus. Blue jays or rollers get their name from the magnificent tumbling and rolling flight. 

5. Blue jay builds its nest in hallow trunk tree. It collect sticks, straws, feathers and rubbish and put in tree hollows for building the nest.

6. Blue jays are smaller than a crow, and larger than a robin.

7. Bluejays tend to live in forests, especially near oak trees.

8. They do migrate, but not for Winter, and the  reasons why are unknown.

9. Bluejays eat: Nuts,Seeds,Grains,Insects,Fruits, sometimes bird eggs, and nestlings.

10. Bluejays are very aggressive birds that are known to attack “intruders”

11. They tend to scare other birds away from bird feeders.

12. Only about 20 percent of bluejays migrate, and age appears to have nothing to do with it. It’s still not understood why.

13. The blue jay is commonly known as Roller under the family  Coraciidae.