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Eurasian Jay

Garrulus glandarius

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Corvidae

The Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius), also known simply as the jay without any epithets in the United Kingdom and Ireland, is a species of passerine bird in the crow family Corvidae. It has pinkish brown plumage with a black stripe on each side of a whitish throat, a bright blue panel on the upper wing and a black tail. The Eurasian jay is a woodland bird that occurs over a vast region from western Europe and north-west Africa to the Indian subcontinent and farther to the eastern seaboard of Asia and down into south-east Asia.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 329,773United Kingdom · 220,786France · 218,371Germany · 198,329Spain · 126,807Italy · 44,916Switzerland · 15,957Belgium · 13,436Luxembourg · 2,747