#1298 · 🐦 birds

Steller's Jay

🇳🇱 Stellers Gaai ·Cyanocitta stelleri

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The Steller's jay ( Cyanocitta stelleri ) is a jay native to western North America, closely related to the blue jay found in the rest of the continent, but with a black head and upper body. It is also known as the long-crested jay , mountain jay , and pine jay . It is the only crested jay west of the Rocky Mountains.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 65,267iNaturalist observations
weight 94 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
65,267 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 94 g.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788 (238 years ago).