#Cyanocitta

[herpsandbirds]

Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, and Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis), family Cardinalidae, order Passeriformes, get into a Kerfuffle, MI, USA

photograph by Kevin Dunham

[haveyouseenthisbirdpoll]

photo source

[birdblues]

Steller's Jay

[raw-wild]

Peregrine Falcon & Blue Jay | James C Sengul

[scottpartridge]

Stellar’s Jay - Foggy

Stellar’s Jay - Fall

[birds-and-the-birds]

????Wingprints

What the hell happened here 😭

[rebeccathenaturalist]

It’s Tell a Friend Friday! Please enjoy this picture of a Steller's jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) feather.

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[kiwi-tmntfan]

guys why do I always have the urge to just go "did you know there are only two species in the genus cyanocitta" even to people I've already told it all to

[colorsoutofearth]

Blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata)

Photo by Marie Read

[geopsych]

Common and even annoying to those who live here but seen as beautiful to most of the rest of the world, blue jays are the loud mischievous trolls of the garden. They’re also the only birds I notice eating ice when it’s too cold for water.

Edit: I take this for granted so I didn’t think to say but as @levile says they are corvids. They also like to mimic the calls of birds of prey, seemingly just to scare smaller birds for the fun of it.

[herpsandbirds]

Steller’s Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, BC, Canada

photograph by Lukas Miller

[haveyouseenthisbirdpoll]

photo source

[birdblues]

Steller’s Jay

[haveyouseenthisanimal-irl]

[bluepr1ntyy]

Err PJ + Raven, Lux + Raven and.. more Raven….!

++ me and @problems-exe’s OCs(Cyan and Solvent) because they’re silly, Cyan’s bracelets are based on Kira(@clownray1’s silly) and Solvent :3

Moot tags; @doodlesphxre @yeloenk

Lux by Alainaprana

PaperJam by @7goodangel

Raven by @echoiarts

silly human designs and Fell Raven hcs under the cut…!

Did I mention I have a spacehey now.. hehehe

[shrub-jay-blog]

Today’s pixel art bird of the day is the blue jay! I ended up cross-stitching this pixel art bird to use as a patch on my overalls. :) The DMC thread colors I used are in the tags.

(I give blanket permission for my pixel art to be used as cross stitch patterns for personal use, but not for those patterns to be sold.)

My favorite blue jay fun fact is that their feathers are not blue in pigmentation! They are actually brown! If you find a blue feather and hold it up the light, moving it at different angles, you can see that the blue coloration is a result of how the structure of the feather reflects light. You can see this in the video I took below:

[Video ID: A hand raises a blue and black striped feather up to the light. As the lighting changes, the feather turns brown. A lush green forest is in the background. /.End ID]

P.S. You can find this pixel art bird as a sticker here. :)