Despite their colorful appearance, blue jays are actually in the genus corvidae, the same as crows and ravens. These birds are typically 9 to 12 inches long from beak to tail and weigh under 3.5 ...

If you catch a glimpse of a large, iridescent, blue bird flitting around in the trees, it is probably a Steller’s Jay. This striking bird has a long, prominent, shaggy crest on its head and a ...

Bird of the Month Name : Blue jay ( Cyanocitta cristata ). Description : The blue jay is between 9 and 12 inches long, bright blue on top and white to gray on its throat, chest and belly. It ha… ...

The bird was likely comparable in size to a modern blue jay. However, its tail reached more than 150% the length of its body. The study published Thursday in the journal Current Biology .

Maybe it’s only my imagination but the summer months always seem to signal a change in the split-personalities of blue jays. Their noisy displays in the fall woods and ragamuffin performances… ...

The crest, shorter tail, and lack of white in the body separate Steller’s jays from the scrub-jays. The blue jay , our other crested jay, has white in the wings, tail, and face, as well as pale ...

The Scrub Jay is the other blue-colored jay you will see in this habitat. Despite its similar color and slightly larger size of 11 inches, and a very long tail, their behaviors are very different, too ...

If I didn’t see the blue jays, I would have thought a Cooper’s hawk was giving this call. But no, it was just the blue jays. “What a remarkable bird,” I thought to myself.

Wilson's bird-of-paradise has unusual curled tail feathers. Serhan Oksay / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0. A fancy tail doesn’t have to be exceptionally long — it can also be exceptionally ...

The Florida Scrub-Jay is a medium-sized songbird with a long tail that spends most of its time perching. Like its name suggests, these birds live in the scrublands of Florida.

So, while everyone else was feeding and fighting amongst themselves, there was one lone blue jay who decided to assume the role of the sentinel for the morning. This bird was actively scanning the ...

The bird was likely comparable in size to a modern blue jay. However, its tail reached more than 150% the length of its body. The study published Thursday in the journal Current Biology .