Green Jay (Draw a Bird Day)
clever, curious–
your flashy loud mimicry
a family trait
Continuing my explorations of the Corvid family, I decided to collage and draw a green jay this month. Residents of the Texas borderlands, they are also found in Central and South America. Like all corvids, they are intelligent, adaptable, brash, and have a large variety of vocalizations, including imitating the calls of hawks to drive away food competitors. They also use sticks as tools to pry bark up to get to the insects underneath.
Green jays live and forage communally, in family groups. The populations are currently stable, although habitat destruction is a concern, particularly in Mexico, and around the proposed border wall to be built through the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge.
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- March 8, 2021 -
….brilliant–in its colour, its presentation and its depiction. I’ve never heard of this bird until now!
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Thanks Lance. I came across it when I was looking for photos of other jays. I was immediately attracted to the colors.
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I enjoy your artistic flair with these birds, and it sounds like they are quite similar in behavior to our blue jays. Indeed, they are very intelligent!
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Thanks Carol. I think all corvids are intelligent. The blue jays around here have been quite bossy this year!
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In their minds, being bossy is their job 😃
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That is true!
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Superb and vibrant colors of this lovely bird Jay. Awesome post.
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Thanks!
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Welcome 😊😊
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Beautiful. I love the green jays.
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Thanks. They are beautiful birds.
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Welcome.
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Wonderful collage and painting, vibrant. I have never heard of a Green Jay. It’s call must sound similar to the Stellar Jay we have here.
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Thanks Susan. There are many jays I never heard of, and I may get to some of them in future months. I think they all like to make their presence known.
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I think you are right. Many kinds of Jay’s and they like their presence known.
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Oh how I love your collage! The home-made paper gives it such texture on top of texture. The painting is beautiful also. We don’t have the green ones around here but we do have the blue jays.
You will see I tried my hand at sketching my first bird for Draw a Bird Day 🙂
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Thanks Jade. I’m going to look now!
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These are both lovely, Kerfe, but I particularly like the mosaic.
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Thanks Robbie.
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Never seen a green jay! We feed dozens of blues, Stellars and Scrubs. So amazing seeing them all flocking to the feeder and nobody fights! 🤗
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No fights? Hard to believe based on the behavior of the jays around here.
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I know! Yet in the eight months we’ve lived here, we’ve never seen any. Years ago in Maine, they would definitely vie for the seed. Here everybody seems to get along! Blackbirds, ravens, crows, songbirds, and the jays! Weird, hunh? They just wait their turn. 😊
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If only we could find the secret ingredient…
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I’ll let you know if I do! 🤓
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I have a thing about the feathered Corvidae, Kerfe. We don’t have the Green Jay up here, but we do have the beautiful and loud Stellar Jays. I squawk with them, mimicking them, and I think they know it. Such clever birds.
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They are. The blue jays have been very loud and present for the past year. Everywhere I go. Even more than crows.
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Love how you put your art together, and the little first verse was tasteful.
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Thanks Jude.
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My pleasure
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Hi Kerfe, I love your combos of colors and textures in your collage! I also like your drawing. I had never heard of a green jay. They sound like a bird with an attitude! 😃
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Thanks Jill. Like all jays!
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