### animal | vertebrate | bird:

Jay
* Most jays eat food
  - moths
  - nuts
  - feed on seeds
  - grow feathers
* Most jays have beaks
  - stout beaks
* Most jays live in counties
  - make nests
  - play in trees
  - prefer forests
  - return to nests
  - seek mates
  - shed feathers
* Some jays bury food
  - eat acorns
* Some jays have cerebral hemispheres
  - live in groups
* are also reluctant to fly on windy days regardless of hour or season
  - extremely territorial
* are often blue and white
  - colourful birds with many bearing various amounts of blue plumage
  - probably the most active propagators of oaks today
  - reluctant to leave the shelter of woodlands
  - quantities of the seeds and sheep and bears browse the plant
* includes air sacs
  - brains
  - breasts
  - cells
  - chests
  - corpi
  - heads
  - second joints
  - sections
  - skulls
  - wishbones
* love trees.
* often land on the bottom part of a tree, and hop their way upward.
* relate to magpies.
* shake heads.
+ Blue Jay, Intelligence: Corvids
  * Jays are some of the more smart birds. They will wait and watch for a person to put food down and as soon as the person walks away they will come down from their hiding place and take it. Along with crows, jays will also watch a person planting seed crops and afterwards dig up and eat the seeds. Jays are very territorial birds, and they will chase others from a feeder for an easier meal. The Blue Jay has a bad  as a raider of other birds' nests, taking eggs, chicks, and nests. However, this may not be as widespread as is normally thought.
+ Corvidae, Description
  * Most members of the crow family are black, such as crows, rooks, choughs, ravens and jackdaws. However, not all crows are black. Magpies and treepies can be black and white, or blue and green, or brown. Jays are often blue and white.

### animal | vertebrate | bird | jay:

Blue jay
* are abundant in the Eastern United States
  - actually gray but light refraction causes the light to bend into a blue wavelength
  - aggressive, curious and large when compared to most of the other perching birds
  - also notorious raiders of other birds' nests
  - altrical, which means they hatch naked and helpless
  - among the few conspicuous members of the winter avifauna in the Valley
  - common feeders in cornfields
  - infamously fierce defenders of their nests, eggs, and chicks
  - major predators, taking both eggs and young
  - monogamous and mate for life
  - monogamous, meaning pairs bond and remain together for life
  - more fighting birds and passive aggressive
  - natural forest dwellers, but they are also highly adaptable and intelligent birds
  - omnivorous, meaning they eat everything
* build their nest using grass, leaves, and twigs.
* can learn to human speech
  - mimic the sound of other birds including the scream of a red-shouldered hawk
* seem to be susceptible to the West Nile Virus.
+ Blue Jay, Description, Sounds: Corvids
  * Blue Jays can make many different sounds, and single sounds may vary  in their calling style. Blue jays can learn to  human speech. Blue jays can also copy the callings of local hawks so well that it is sometimes difficult to tell which it is. Blue Jays will use these calls to band together to mob predators such as hawks and drive them away from the jays' nests.

Juvenile bird
* Most juvenile birds feed diets
  - meat diets
* Most juvenile birds have beaks
  - bills
  - brownish heads
  - plumages
* Some juvenile birds return to boxes
  - nest boxes
* select sites.

Kingbird
* always hunt insects from the overhanging branches.
* are birds
  - well known for their aggressive nature
* feed on beetles, wasps, bees, winged ants, grasshoppers, honeybees and many other insects.