#1406 · 🐦 birds

Canada Jay

🇳🇱 Canadese Taigagaai ·Perisoreus canadensis

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The Canada jay ( Perisoreus canadensis ), also gray jay , grey jay , camp robber , or whisky jack , is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae. It is found in boreal forests of North America north to the tree line, and in the Rocky Mountains subalpine zone south to New Mexico and Arizona. A fairly large songbird, the Canada jay has pale grey underparts, darker grey upperparts, and a grey-white head with a darker grey nape. It is one...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 24,124iNaturalist observations
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.
24,124 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).