Visitors from abroad always have blue jays on the top of their American birding wishlists, and are surprised that they are common, backyard birds. Boisterous, but lovely to behold. Jays are in the ...

Unlike most blue birds, which exhibit sexual dichromatism, male and female blue jays share the same bright colors. This North American flyer ranges throughout North America. 5.

However, there does seem to be one thing that can calm everyone down a bit, and that turns out to be the blue jays. It may come as no surprise that on the day that I observed 61 mourning doves at my ...

This is the job of the blue jays; they are sentries, alarm systems for the many smaller birds that we enjoy. These bold, bright birds put themselves at risk when they make themselves known so loudly.

Blue jays are one of the first birds we learn to identify as kids. You can find them all over the country, but not a single state has chosen the blue jay as its state bird.

And the blue jay has a side chick. It’s a 1980s soap opera, a daily dose of melodrama. One day, a bird with a twinkling whistle and a fighter-jet profile soared over the yard.