ElextraStellar Jay [OC]
Great photo! I always love these guys. The goth versions of Blue Jays!
I don’t want to be pedantic but it’s “Steller’s Jay”.
The bird is named after the German naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller, the first European to record them, in 1741. [source](en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steller's Jay)
Yes! I think they look like edgy BlueJays haha!
Thank you so much!! I will edit!!
Durandal
Inside the AOS Recommendation to Change Common Bird Names
Steller's Jay by Matt Zuro / Macaulay Library. When a special committee of the American Ornithological Society first met to reconsider the common names of birds named after people, eBird project leader Marshall Iliff came to a realization: despite long-standing practice, naming birds after people
Thank you for pointing this out. I wasn’t aware of this movement. It seems like a great idea!
Yeah. I found it interesting. I have heard rumors that “ Audubon” might rename as well due to controversy around its namesake having been a slave trader.
Smitty@Durandal @Vorticity not a rumor.
I love these birds. They’re very smart, but such assholes! They have learned to mimic a hawk’s call to scare off other little birds, and then raid their nests.
KalciferThe familiar, raspy screeches of Cascadia!
I thought you were in Sechelt, BC!
… though the “ranch” doesn’t make much sense there.
ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔These jays will never stop being one of the most beautiful birds I’ve yet to see. Some day we will meet. 😁