#jays

[travisdermotts]

choosing to ignore the discourse about both teams and focus on how excited they were instead

[lacrimosathedark]

There's one thing about Jason Todd that just gets to me. It's poetic, it's ironic, it's painful, it's mildly infuriating, and it's kind of hilarious. To me at least.

So. You know Jays? Like, the type of bird? These fancy fuckers?

Also these

Yeah, Jays. Jaybirds. [insert Roy Harper joke here]

Let me tell you a funky thing about jays.

Their scientific classification, do you know what family they're in?

Fucking Corvidae. JAYS ARE CORVIDS. Y'know, like ravens and crows and magpies. The kinds of birds frequently associated with intelligence, wisdom, and DEATH. The kinds of birds known for STEALING SHIT and HOLDING GRUDGES.

And the fact that NONE OF THIS WAS INTENDED IN JASON'S CHARACTER? I can't handle it. And my body can never decide if it wants to scream or laugh or cry when I think about it so I'm just sitting here vibrating over it.

[feather-bone]

Blue and Canadian Jays, with some of their favorite trees. The blue jay can do an incredibly accurate imitation of a red-shouldered hawk to scare smaller birds away from food sources, and the Canada jay is super bold, and as earned the nickname “camp robber” for stealing food from humans. :-)

[ID: an illustration of a smaller grey and white Canada jay above and a blue and black-barred blue jay below, both in flight, surrounded by branches, leaves, and cones from birch, spruce, oak, fir, aspen, birch, and maple trees. These are all on a blue background with snow, and are labeled in white. End.]

[thomas--bombadil]

A Blue Jay poses idyllically on the forest floor.

P.S. This image looks fake to me. It looks like a stock photo of a Blue Jay pasted onto some grass. But this image is indeed, real.

[jadeseadragon]

@mybackyardbirding

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Birds

Corvides. This sub-order is made up of corvids (jays, ravens, crows and magpies), as well as small meat-eating birds of the Old World, such as currawongs and butcherbirds

Falconiformes. This order is made up of falcons and kestrels, typically solitary and often fast-flying birds of prey.

[alcnfr]

A Blue Jay  (Cyanocitta cristata) drinking from the feedlot water bowl...

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Mexican Jay

Photo: Mick Thompson

"Widespread in Mexico, this bird enters the United States in two areas: in much of southeastern Arizona and adjacent New Mexico, and in the Big Bend area of Texas. These two populations are not closely connected in Mexico, and they differ in a number of ways, including egg color, bill color of the young, voice, and aspects of nesting behavior. The nesting habits in Arizona are surprisingly complicated, various members of the flock being more or less involved with several nesting attempts at once."

- Audubon Field Guide

[shleys-stuff]

checking to make sure the gatorade didn’t get on hazel 🥹

[travisdermotts]

THEM

[organicmatter]

Pinyon Jay Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus by Glenn Kincaid

[antiqueanimals]

Wildlife in North Carolina. February 1982. Illustration by Duane Raver Jr.

Internet Archive

[animal-families-tournaments]

[jadeseadragon]

Phyllis Shafer, Carson Valley Scrub Jay

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Birds

Accipitriformes. This order contains most birds of prey: hawks, eagles, vultures, and kites

Corvides. This sub-order is made up of corvids (jays, ravens, crows and magpies), as well as small meat-eating birds of the Old World, such as currawongs and butcherbirds

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Florida Scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens)

(Photo by Cassidy Ficker)

Conservation Status- Vulnerable

Habitat- Central Florida

Size (Weight/Length)- 76 g; 30 cm

Diet- Insects; Small amphibians; Rodents; Bird eggs

Cool Facts- As hard as it is to believe, the Florida scrub-jay is the only bird truly endemic to Florida. These brightly colored birds have one of the tightest family units in the bird kingdom. Scrub-jay chicks stay with their parents several years after fledging to help raise their younger siblings and keep an eye out for predators. Only once adjacent territory becomes available do the chicks set out on their own to raise a flock of their own. Due to lack of wildfires, the forests that Florida scrub-jays call home have shifted from scrub to thick forest. The jays have difficulty finding proper nesting material and prey.

Rating- 11/10 (White and blue is in season.)