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Blue jay   /blu dʒeɪ/   Listen
Blue jay

noun
1.
Common jay of eastern North America; bright blue with grey breast.  Synonyms: Cyanocitta cristata, jaybird.






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"Blue jay" Quotes from Famous Books



... sable clouds; and the golden-winged woodpecker, with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage; and the cedar-bird, with its red-tipt wings and yellow-tipt tail and its little monteiro cap of feathers; and the blue jay, that noisy coxcomb, in his gay light-blue coat and white under-clothes, screaming and chattering, bobbing and nodding and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with ...
— The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. • Washington Irving

... and—infinity. The little wooden building had invaded Nature without subduing it. It was filled night and day with the murmur of pines and their fragrance. Squirrels scampered over its roof when it was not preoccupied by woodpeckers, and a printer's devil had once seen a nest-building blue jay enter the composing window, flutter before one of the slanting type-cases with an air of deliberate selection, and then fly off with a vowel in ...
— Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories • Bret Harte



Words linked to "Blue jay" :   Cyanocitta, New World jay, genus Cyanocitta, Cyanocitta cristata



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