Bird Identifier

Bird Encyclopedia

Search and identify 1,000+ birds — with size, habitat, diet, voice, behavior, and the field marks that tell them apart.

Green Jay

Green Jay

A dazzlingly colored jay of south Texas brushlands with a green back, sky-blue head markings, and lemon-yellow outer tail feathers.

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Steller's Jay

Steller's Jay

A bold, crested jay of western conifer forests with a striking black head and deep blue body.

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Canada Jay

Canada Jay

The official current name for the Gray Jay, a fluffy, remarkably tame boreal-forest corvid famous for hoarding food and visiting campsites.

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Pinyon Jay

Pinyon Jay

A uniformly blue, crestless, highly social jay of pinyon-juniper woodlands that lives in large, noisy flocks year-round.

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Gray Jay

Gray Jay

A fluffy, tame boreal-forest jay, officially renamed Canada Jay, known for its curiosity around campsites and its habit of hoarding food year-round.

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Mexican Jay

Mexican Jay

A plain blue-and-gray jay of southwestern mountain oak woodlands that lives in cooperative family flocks year-round.

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Blue Jay

Blue Jay

A bold, crested songbird in vivid blue, white, and black, known for its loud calls and habit of caching acorns.

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Florida Scrub-Jay

Florida Scrub-Jay

A crestless blue-and-gray jay found nowhere in the world except Florida's rapidly shrinking scrub-oak habitat.

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California Scrub-Jay

California Scrub-Jay

A crestless, bold blue-and-gray jay of West Coast oak woodlands and suburban yards, closely tied to acorn crops.

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Island Scrub-Jay

Island Scrub-Jay

A large, deep-blue scrub-jay found only on Santa Cruz Island off the California coast, the most range-restricted bird in the continental United States.

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Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay

Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay

A pale, crestless blue jay of the interior West's pinyon-juniper woodlands, closely tied to pine nut crops.

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