Birders
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IA8IT
(6,114 posts)Rebl2
(16,036 posts)different from blue jays?
WhiteTara
(30,653 posts)milestogo
(20,145 posts)Nice photo, but misidentified.
WhiteTara
(30,653 posts)from the west coast and the jays there are so spectacular that they couldn't imagine a blue jay without the crest?
CA have Steller jays?
WhiteTara
(30,653 posts)ShazzieB
(20,078 posts)This definitely looks like a blue jay, with the crest flattened back.
Jays and magpies have a lot in common, being in different branches of the Corvid family, but there aren't any magpies that look this much like a blue jay, at least not to my knowledge.
WhiteTara
(30,653 posts)milestogo
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WhiteTara
(30,653 posts)do they live around northwest Arkansas?
ShazzieB
(20,078 posts)We're from Illinois, and we took a trip through South Dakota, Wyoming (including Yellowstone), and Montana, and then back home through Colorado and Nebraska. In Montana, I started noticing these big black and white birds all over the place. Like these guys:
I googled and found out they were black-billed magpies, a bird that is common west of the Mississippi but not seen in the eastern third of the country.
WhiteTara
(30,653 posts)such flocks were everywhere.