Listen to the Eurasian jay
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About the Eurasian jay
The Eurasian jay is a bird in the family Corvidae (order Passeriformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”. Adults have a wingspan of about 54 cm and weigh around 8 g.
What does the Eurasian jay sound like?
Most birds have two kinds of vocalisation: songs, which are learned or innate phrases delivered mainly in spring and summer, and calls – brief contact, alarm and begging notes heard all year round. Listening for both helps with identification.
The recordings here are labelled as call and song. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius) is a species of passerine bird in the 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.
Across the vast Species distribution, several distinct racial forms have evolved which look different from each other, especially when comparing forms at the extremes of its range.
More from the family Corvidae
Common raven
Corvus corax
Eurasian magpie
Pica pica
Western jackdaw
Coloeus monedula
Rook
Corvus frugilegus
Hooded crow
Corvus cornix
Carrion crow
Corvus corone
Northern nutcracker
Nucifraga caryocatactes
Blue jay
Cyanocitta cristata
Alpine chough
Pyrrhocorax graculus
Red-billed chough
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
House crow
Corvus splendens
Pied crow
Corvus albus
Frequently asked questions
What does an Eurasian jay sound like?
You can hear 6 recordings of the Eurasian jay on this page, including its call and song. Most birds have two kinds of vocalisation: songs, which are learned or innate phrases delivered mainly in spring and summer, and calls – brief contact, alarm and begging notes heard all year round.
Is the Eurasian jay endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the Eurasian jay as “least concern”.
What family does the Eurasian jay belong to?
The Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius) belongs to the family Corvidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources & credits
- Garrulus glandarius iphigenia by Vladimir Yu. Arkhipov, Arkhivov – CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call · Durmignat, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France by Marie-Lan Taÿ Pamart – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Song · Jardin des Plantes, Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France by Marie-Lan Taÿ Pamart – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call · Võnnu Parish, Tartumaa, Estonia by Veljo Runnel – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call · Jardin des Plantes, Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France by Marie-Lan Taÿ Pamart – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call, imitating accipiter gentilis(?) by Alvaro Ortiz Troncoso – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q25354 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Eurasian jay – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Luc Viatour – CC BY-SA 3.0