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Gray Jay. By: Priscilla Saeger. CLASSIFICATION. Family Crows, ravens, jays, and magpies, and lots more Order Passeriformes Scientific name Canadensis(robber) Phylum Chordata Class Aves. Distribution. Gray Jays are found in North America Rocky Mountains New Mexico Arizona

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  1. Gray Jay By: Priscilla Saeger

  2. CLASSIFICATION • Family • Crows, ravens, jays, and magpies, and lotsmore • Order • Passeriformes • Scientific name • Canadensis(robber) • Phylum • Chordata • Class • Aves

  3. Distribution • Gray Jays are found in • North America • Rocky Mountains • New Mexico • Arizona • Norway • And Alaska • Areas • Fir Forests • Anything in high elevation • Evergreen Forests

  4. Physical Description • weight • 2.5 ounces (70 grams) • Length • 11.5inches (29cm) • Wingspan • 18 inches (45cm) or(1.48ft) • male and female are identical • But female just have a paler neck

  5. Parental Care Food • Mate for life • Female incubates for 16-18 days • Both adults tend the young • Babies are able to fly at the age of 15 days • The year after birth, both gender can breed • They will eat • Meat • Fruit • Insects • Plants • And garbage • Berries • Fungi • and almost anything else it comes across

  6. Predators • Owls, • hawks, • Weasels • foxes • American marten • Red squirrel • northern hawk-owls • Gray Jays warn each other of predators by whistling alarm notes, screaming, chattering, or imitating, and/or mobbing predators

  7. Human Relationship • Humans used to hunt them • Sometimes Gray Jays can be very curious • Gray Jays quickly learn that humans can be an excellent source of food, even coming to the hand for bread, raisins, or cheese • Its not threatened or dangered • On IUCN • It is Least Concerned

  8. Cool Facts • The Gray Jay has many informal names, including "Whiskey-Jack," and "meat-bird.” • They coat mouthfuls of food with saliva and store them in tree bark and other crevices for later use. • Breeding Gray Jays build nests and lay eggs in March or even February

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