Canada Jay (also called the Gray Jay or Whiskey Jack): The Canada Jay was voted as a top choice for Canada’s national bird because of its friendly nature and year-round presence in the northern forests. This comes from the Algonquin word Wisakedjak, a trickster figure in Indigenous folklore. Canada Jays store food by sticking it to tree bark with their sticky saliva. They can remember thousands of hiding spots! Unlike many birds, they don’t migrate. Instead, they rely on their cached food to sur

How to Speak Blue Jay Part 1 (Alarm Calls) Blue Jays, and other Corvids are very smart birds, and their variety of calls reflect their intelligence Blue jays are really good at mimicking nearby predatory birds Its thought that mimicking hawk calls helps them scare other birds away from bird feeders and other food They can also be recognized by their jeer call This is their alarm call that they use to help point out threats to their peers, and they even use it as their gang up on larger predatory